Lesson 4: Creating a Silly Rhyming Song
Main Concept: ·
Children will practice identifying rhyming words and create their own silly rhyming song using familiar tunes.

Warm-Up Activity: Nursery Rhyme Review

• Review the main activity from Lesson 1. 
• Begin by singing a favorite song, such as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and pause occasionally, prompting the children to guess the rhyming word.
• Example: "Twinkle, twinkle, little _____ (star). What goes there? How I wonder what you......"

Main Activity: Creating a Silly Rhyming Song

• Sing a familiar song, such as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” and encourage the child to come up with a silly, made-up word to replace one of the original words in the song.
• For example, you might change "star" to "char," and sing: "Twinkle, twinkle, little char."
• Encourage the child to think of other silly word substitutions and sing them together.

Prewriting: Spirals (Precursor to "e," "o," and circular control)

• Spiral Spin Art: Use a salad spinner with paint and paper circles to make spirals, then trace the shapes.
• Follow the Snail: Draw a big spiral on the ground and have kids pretend to be snails crawling the spiral path.
• Spaghetti Spirals: Use cooked spaghetti to form spirals on a tray or playdough mat.

Extensions

• Creative Performance: Invite children to perform their silly rhyming song to the family. 
• Interactive Rhyming Craft: Have children create a "songbook" by drawing pictures for the rhyming words they used in the song. They can glue their picture next to the written or traced word.