this week. This is a story FULL of rhymes, and all the kids did an awesome job figuring those rhyming words out! What surprised me a little bit this week was our discussions we had following our read-aloud of There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
. There's not much (if any) plot to this story, just lots of rhymes and fun. And discussing a book that doesn't have much plot is a bit difficult. But the kids were all very opinionated about the creatures in the book. They told me all about which ones they liked, if they had any of these kinds of creatures at their own house (some told me they did), what they would do is there was a "Zower in their shower", etc. Everybody was excited about hearing last week's story again too! They all demanded that I read it again (that was the plan anyway). They were pros with all the rhymes in it. They pretty much read the story to me. I had to slow some of them down because they were "reading" too far ahead, too quickly!
After we read both of our stories, we made silly creatures like the ones in There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
. The children got to create their own unique creature by mixing and matching heads, bodies, and feet of different sorts. Once the creatures were done, we decided what kind of creatures they were ("A Bofa on the sofa?" "A Ghair under the chair?"). This was a tricky task, so with most of the kids I started a phrase for them and let them figure out the rhyming word to complete it. For example: Is your creature a Muss on a ________? (Answer: bus). This worked well, and once they got the hang of it, many of the kids were coming up with their own rhymes. They were often using made-up words, which was great because most of the words in our book were made-up too!
So we glued, and colored, and rhymed, rhymed, rhymed this week! It was great!
No class next week, but we will wrap up our rhyming unit the week of the 26th!
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