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Learning Experiences for Kindergartners

Activities from The Giant Encyclopedia of Kindergarten Activities: Over 600 Activities Created by Teachers for Teachers

Part Two

By Kathy Charner

Dotti Enderle, Richmond, Texas

Materials: 20 sheets of construction paper, black marker

What to do:

1. Write each of these words on a sheet of construction paper: fat, cat, funny, bunny, bug, jug, bony, pony, snake, cake, cool, tool, wee, bee, mad, dad, mouse, house, toad, road.

2. Spread the papers on the floor, mixing and separating the rhyming words. Ask the following riddles and have the children match the rhyming words:

An overweight kitty (fat cat)
A silly rabbit (funny bunny)
A jar of insects (bug jug)
A skinny horse (bony pony)
A python dessert (snake cake)
A cold hammer (cool tool)
A tiny bug (wee bee)
An angry father (mad dad)
A rodent's home (mouse house)
A frog's street (toad road)

3. Think up more simple nouns and ask the children to come up with their own rhymes.

Materials: stencil of a mitten, wallpaper books, marker, scissors, clothespin, rope

What to do:

1. Cut out several pairs of matching mittens from wallpaper books.

2. For each pair, add a number to the back of one mitten and the appropriate number of dots to its match.

3. Lay all the mittens on the floor. Encourage the children to match them according to their pattern or by looking at the numbers.

4. Hang the matching pairs from the rope using the clothespins.