rhyming

gettting ready for kindergarten: summertime prep

July 16, 2011

We’re almost exactly at the mid-summer point, and before we know it, the new school year will be upon us. Ahhhhhhh! So with my sweet Owen heading off to the wilds of Kindergarten this year (wah!), I thought it would be worthwhile to share a few things we’re doing over here to get our big [...]

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digraphs and blends: search, find, and rhyme game

September 16, 2010

It’s no secret that digraphs and blends are tough for some kiddos to enunciate and hear. These tricky, unique sounds are difficult for little mouths to create, and it’s known that speech sounds come with time. But if we can find reasons to say words with these sounds, play games with the sounds, and give [...]

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making connections– with poems we love

June 2, 2010

Lately, we’ve been so busy. May flew by, like it always does for us–a blur of end-of-school activities, yard work, picnics, park dates, and now pool time. So I’ve tried to sneak in what I can, when I can. Most of our learning has been happening through read-alouds, either our newspaper reading at breakfast, or [...]

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take time to rhyme–4 fun ways to play with rhymes

May 26, 2010

Repost from an article I wrote for ABC & 123, on 5/03/10: Whether you’re taking your kids to preschool, enjoying a walk, or just lazying around in the back yard, any time is a good time to play with rhyming words. Rhyming in any shape or form is super important because it helps our little [...]

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time to rhyme–go fish!

January 26, 2010

Lately all Maddy wants to do is read, read, read, which is fine with me. She’ll read to me, my husband, and she’ll read to Owen or Cora. She’ll read to anyone who will listen. And it’s great that she is so willing to do this, because it gives me a chance to hear how [...]

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poem, poem, the cookie jar poem

November 19, 2009

For the last few days, Maddy has been bouncing around the house, reciting poems from her kindergarten class. Lately, she’s taken to “The Runaway Cookies” which is a seven-stanza poem about naughty cookies who escaped from their cookie jar one night. The cool thing about this poem, thanks to her teacher, is that it was [...]

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rockin’ rhyme bingo

May 20, 2009

Owen and I revisited Rhyme Bingo today, this time with Maddy, and it was a blast. We only played for a short while–about 15 or 20 minutes before their rest times–but the kids really liked it. Here’s what we did: Rhyme Bingo: Thanks to my newly-realized addiction to file-sharing and my already-professed love of Bear’s [...]

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picture and word sort

May 7, 2009

Yesterday was a super-busy and a totally out-of-the-ordinary day for us. We spent the day at PBS Headquarters in Virginia (seriously!) with some other cool DC Metro Moms, and I promise, promise, promise I’ll share what we learned about the amazing things they’ve got going on over there after this weekend. I honestly cannot wait. [...]

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rhyming and sorting, sorting and rhyming

February 23, 2009

Owen and I had a tiny bit of quiet time together yesterday while Cora was napping and Maddy had lunch at preschool, so he and I read, played cars, and did a few Rhyme Sorts together. Today, Owen took over and taught Maddy what he and I did yesterday. It was pretty awesome. fyi: Rhyme [...]

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rhyme bingo vs dice match-up

January 22, 2009

After a morning with Cora at our busy monthly moms’ group meeting, I found I was really looking forward to my “quiet time” with Maddy and Owen after lunch. I knew I wanted to do some rhyming work, since Owen can really use the work on his enunciation, so the first thing we did focused [...]

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bagels, yum! rhymes with . . . thumb?

January 16, 2009

One thing I’ve found out this year, ever since I’ve been on the board of my local moms’ group, is that there’s never any harm in asking for a little something from your local businesses. I’ve tried to let our local businesses “show us what they’ve got” since June, and all I’ve had to do [...]

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