Miss Mari's Preschool
An Adventure Every Day!
Rhyming
Rhyming Basket
Fill a basket with different objects from around your classroom (marker, crayon, scissors, glue, paint brush, etc.). Pass the basket around the circle and ask each child to pull out an object that rhymes with "tissers" or "larker."
Hickory Dickory Dock
I use this game as an introduction to rhyming. I begin by singing Hickory Dickory Dock a few times with the students so that the song is familar to them. I have a paper clock and mouse that put on my easel and I move the mouse as we sing the song. I tell the students that the mouse will only run up something that rhymes with clock. Then I change out the clock for other items, and ask the students if it will work. (rock, sock, block, scissors, glue, etc.).
Erase a Rhyme
Draw a picture of anything on a white board. It needs to be something that has a lot of features (house, snowman, person, etc.). Call children up one at a time to erase something in the picture. "Erase something that rhymes with 'bat.' Erase something that rhymes with 'mutton.'"
The Hungry Thing
At a conference a few years ago, the presenter suggested using the book, The Hungry Thing to teach rhyming skills to preschoolers. It is a fun book, but it does have a lot of words in it, so I simplify it as I read. In summary, a monster named the Hungry Thing comes to town and demands food, but he only speaks in rhyme. So if he wants to eat pickles, he'll ask for tickles. The students love trying to figure out what the Hungry Thing wants to eat. After we read the book, I have the the children think of something they like to eat, but tell them to keep it a secret. Then each child takes a turn to come to the front of the class and speak into my microphone like the Hungry Thing. The other children have to guess what food he wants to eat.
Fishing for Rhymes
Children use a fishing pole to catch a fish. On the back of the fish is a picture. They have to match the word on the fish to the rhyming word on the fishbowl.