Exploring rhyming words and poetry!

This week we are learning all about the sense of hearing. Today we have been learning to hear and say rhyming words through lots of different activities! We've been finding rhyming pictures in a puzzle (including a wizard with a lizard, a moon with a spoon and a king on a swing!), singing nursery rhymes, playing a rhyming game on the whiteboard, matching rhyming pictures and reading some rhyming stories!

This afternoon Reception learnt a poem called What Can I Do? It goes like this:

What can I do?

Do, do, what can I do?

I can do so much.

Do, do, what can I do?

Why don’t you come and watch?

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Jump!

Jump! Jump! Jump!

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Run!

Run! Run! Run!

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Wiggle!

Wiggle! Wiggle! Wiggle!

Do, do, what can I do?

I can do so much!

We added actions to our poem and said it several times until we could recite it off by heart. Then we made up our own version of the poem. To do this we had to think of different things we could do and put them in the poem in the right place. This is our finished poem!

What can I do?

Do, do, what can I do?

I can do so much.

Do, do, what can I do?

Why don’t you come and watch?

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Stretch!

Stretch! Stretch! Stretch!

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Walk!

Walk! Walk! Walk!

Watch me, watch me, watch me…

Stomp!

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!

Do, do, what can I do?

I can do so much!

In Play and Learn time Fallon worked really hard on writing her own rhyming poem about animals. This is Fallon's poem:

Goat on a boat

Dog on a log

Cat on a mat

Great rhyming words Fallon, and brilliant use of phonics to sound out all the words. Well done!