Exploring rhyme

This morning we met a new friend called Funky Monkey. Funky Monkey has been told that his name rhymes... but he didn't understand what that meant! It was our job to think of some rhyming words and try to work out why they rhymed so we could help Funky Monkey understand. We heard some examples of rhyme, for example, 'cat' and 'bat', and worked out that the words must have the same end sound to rhyme. 'Cat' and 'bat' rhyme, but 'cat' and 'cap' don't, because their end sound is different.

We explored rhyme in lots of different ways, and used paper and clipboards to record some of the rhymes we found.

We listened to nursery rhymes and followed them with the book.

We had to write words that rhymed with the words on the whiteboards. Some of them were tricky, like 'crunch' but Lucy came up with a good word - 'bunch' and Harry said 'lunch'.

We searched in the sand for buried coins. Each coin had a word on it. We had to read the word and try to match the rhyming pairs!

We had a big piece of paper that we could use to write rhyming words on, or sentences that had rhyming words in. Grace wrote "The fox got a box." Super rhymes Grace!

We played rhyming games like rhyming pairs. You have to turn over two cards, read the words and see if they rhyme. Here Harry has a pair because 'sun' and 'bun' are rhyming words.

We looked at books with rhyme in. Some were story books and some were poetry books. Here Olivia is looking for rhyming words in one of our big books of poetry.

When we found rhyming words we wrote them down on our clipboards so we wouldn't forget them!

We played a rhyming game on the interactive whiteboard called 'Cake Bake'. You have to put words into the bowl if they rhyme with the word already in there. Here you can see Jamie has to find words that rhyme with 'cat' to go into the bowl, and he is choosing 'bat'. Well done Jamie!

We picked things out of the story bag and then found the rhyming card that went with it. Then we said or sang the rhyme. Here Lexi is holding Humpty Dumpty and singing the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.

We used the iPads to write ideas we had and also to listen to a story. The story was called 'The Steam Train' and it was a rhyming story. We could read it ourselves or choose 'Read to me' and the iPad read the story to us while we looked at the words and the pictures.

We had to find rhyming words to fit the pieces of this rhyming puzzle together. Here Grace has already found 'frog' and 'dog'. Maddie also found the tricky rhyme 'tie' and 'pie'.

Then we shared what we had learnt with each other and with Funky Monkey. We had done such a good job of finding rhyming words that Funky Monkey understood what rhyme means! We finished by reading one of our favourite stories, The Gruffalo, and joining in with all the rhyming words.