Down By the Bay and Nursery Rhyme Day

Our three day week was short, but we managed to fit a lot in those three days!  On Monday we made some fun rhyme mini-books.  The kids each thought of a pair of rhyming words and drew them on the front sides of the book.

Then I told them they got to break the rule of putting spaces between their words and squish their two words together on the inside to make a silly, nonsense word.  Madisen chose "fox" and "box" and then made a "foxbox" on the inside page of her book.

Austin chose "dog" and "log."

And made a "logdog" on the inside.  They had a great time with this little activity and it was fun to see their imaginations at work.

We worked with the song "Down By the Bay."  I think this one has been around forever because I remember learning it when I was in kindergarten!  It was fun to find rhyming words in the song with our highlighter tape.

We also worked as a class to make up our own silly sentences that rhymed.  I had helpers come up and circle the two rhyming words. 

On Tuesday, we read the book "Rhyming Dust Bunnies."  It is a really funny book and had the kids learning about rhymes while laughing hysterically.  We made our own rhyming dust bunnies and thought of one word and wrote others that rhymed with it around our paper.

I think the highlight of this activity for the kids was using their white crayons.  They have been asking me for months when we were ever going to use white.  So they were excited when I told them they could use a white crayon to write on their black paper for this project.  It doesn't take much to keep these kiddos happy!

Wednesday was our big nursery rhyme day!  Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came to support their children and our class during this fun presentation!  Even though it was a little nerve-racking to get up in front of all those people, the kindergartners did such an awesome job reciting their nursery rhymes.  I was so proud of everyone!  Here are a few of the kids saying their rhymes:

 Evelyn saying, "It's Raining, It's Pouring."

Gracie with "Rain, Rain, Go Away."

Ivory did a fun nursery rhyme called "Gregory Griggs" about someone that wore 27 wigs.  She was giggling along with our class as she changed her wigs a few times during her rhyme.

Parker cracked a real egg during "Humpty Dumpty."

Avery was Little Miss Muffet sitting on a tuffet.

Olivia was the cat with a fiddle in "Hey Diddle, Diddle."

Brynley performed the rhyme, "Tiny Tim" and had her dad help blow bubbles.

And Alex was Little Boy Blue with this cool horn!

After our performance, we read a book called "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert.  The pictures are all made from leaves.  The kids got to use the leaves they collected for homework and made their own leaf pictures.  They had such a fun time working and I was so impressed by their creativity!  We have so many great little artists in our class!

I got them hung up on our bulletin board in the hallway, so check them out next time you are at the school!  Here are a few up close pictures:

John Ti. made a turtle and spider.

Conner made this bird with a tree branch and sun.

And Hannah made this cute little butterfly!

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I hope everyone is enjoying their fall break!  We have been busy hunting witches at Gardner Village, riding to the top of a mountain on the Snowbird Tram, and going through giant corn mazes.

 See you all Monday!  :)