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Rhyming With UpWords

Melissa — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:24:56 +0000

My 4 year old loves to play with the same board games she sees her mommy and daddy play with friends. So I decided to adapt some of those board games for her. One of them is UpWords and since one of her favourite things to do is rhyme we decided to that UpWords was the perfect game to make rhyming words because you can stack the letters. We can start off mat then turn it into sat, rat, cat, hat and so on. She also loves to use the letters to make her name and other family members names as well.

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Pre-reading Game

Melissa — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:17:54 +0000

Before a child learns to read they usually need to know the letter sounds first.

Using pictures from magazines, colouring books, flier , drawn yourself or printed off the internet have your child circle pictures that begin with a certain sound. Start with easy to identify sounds such as m, s, d and b.

You can also make cards with the pictures and cards with letters and have your child match the sound with the picture. Laminate the cards to help them last longer.

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Ready. Set. Rhyme

Melissa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:18 +0000

Some children are kinetic learners, they learn best while moving. Here is a fun rhyming game especially for those children.

If you don’t have an indoor area big enough for all participating children to run, this activity will need to be done outdoors.

Mark a line with masking tape, chalk or any other suitable way.
Mark a designated area several feet away for the children to stop at.
Have the children stand along the line.
Call out 2, 3 or more words at a time (depending on skill level of children). If all the words that you call out rhyme the children run, if they don’t the children stay still.

It is up to you whether or not you want this game to be competitive.

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Jack Frost

Melissa — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:01 +0000

Teaching your children poems is a great literary activity. Jack Frost is a fun winter poem that would be great for young children to draw pictures to go along with the poem. Make it into a booklet for them!

Jack Frost

The door was shut, as doors should be,
Before you went to bed last night;
Yet Jack Frost has got in, you see,
And left your window silver white.

He must have waited till you slept;
And not a single word he spoke,
But pencilled o’er the panes and crept
Away again before you woke.

And now you cannot see the hills
Nor fields that stretch beyond the lane;
But there are fairer things than these
His fingers traced on every pane.

Rocks and castles towering high;
Hills and dales, and streams and fields;
And knights in armor riding by,
With nodding plumes and shining shields.

And here are little boats, and there
Big ships with sails spread to the breeze;
And yonder, palm trees waving fair
On islands set in silver seas,

And butterflies with gauzy wings;
And herds of cows and flocks of sheep;
And fruit and flowers and all the things
You see when you are sound asleep.

For, creeping softly underneath
The door when all the lights are out,
Jack Frost takes every breath you breathe,
And knows the things you think about.

He paints them on the window-pane
In fairy lines with frozen steam;
And when you wake you see again
The lovely things you saw in dream.

By: Gabriel Setoun

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