Hi ladies! Just want to share some ideas that you can use in your classrooms/homebases.
Remember that the most important thing that we can do for the children we work with is to have a nurturing, supportive relationship with them. With this essential component in place alot of fun learning will happen.
Both rhyming & alliteration are fun learning activities for preschoolers.
RHYMING is being able to hear that two words have the same sound at the end (box, fox)
ROLLING RHYMES
Procedure
-Collect pictures of common objects that are easy to rhyme
-Have the children sit on the floor so they can roll a ball back & forth to each other
-Name each of the pictures for the children
-Model for the children how to create nonsense rhyming words with one or two of the pictures
-Show & name a picture (e.g., fox)
-Roll the ball to a child to have that child create a rhyming word with the picture (e.g., box)
-That child then rolls the ball to the next child
-The next child says a word that rhymes with the two words (e.g., fox, box)
-Encourage children to make up both real words & use nonsense words (e.g., gox, hox, ect.)
ALLITERATION refers to two or more words that have the same sound at the beginning (bone, baby, bike, ballon)
TONGUE TWISTERS
Procedure
-Read an alliteration story
-Have children repeat tongue twisters
-Have children repeat alliteration sentence
*Five fat frogs flying fast.
*Six sick sheep sleep.
*A big black bear.
-Make up fun sentences that goes with the child's name.
*Billy bounces big blue balls.
*Sally sells seashells.
*Tommy takes time to tackle Timmy.
-Have the children identify the sound that is the same.
-Tape record yourself and your children as you read the story to them and as they practice repeating the sentences individually and as a group.
Make learning fun & remember Uri Bronfenbrenn's quote, "Every child needs one person who is crazy about him".
