| Mother Goose Unit |
Shared Reading:
Just Me by Ron Bacon
Just Me by Ron Bacon
Focus Poetry:
"Humpty Dumpty"
"Humpty Dumpty"
Journal Topics:
*Draw Jack and Jill going up the hill.
*What do you think they did with all Humpty Dumpty's broken
pieces?
*Hickory Dickory Dock! Draw the mouse going up the clock.
*Draw yourself jumping over the candlestick.
*Draw pairs of pictures that rhyme.
*Draw Jack and Jill going up the hill.
*What do you think they did with all Humpty Dumpty's broken
pieces?
*Hickory Dickory Dock! Draw the mouse going up the clock.
*Draw yourself jumping over the candlestick.
*Draw pairs of pictures that rhyme.
Center Ideas:
fine motor center: perforate lamb shape, Scribble Art mouse
pocket chart: add a candlestick prop and poem card:
(Name) be nimble! (Name) be quick! (Name) jump over the candlestick!
Students use a Vis-a-Vis marker to add their names to the poem
before acting it out!
art: Humpty Dumpty (students cut out egg shape and add features
to resemble Humpty Dumpty; then they sponge paint a brick wall for
him to sit on)
writing: What rhymes?
fine motor center: perforate lamb shape, Scribble Art mouse
pocket chart: add a candlestick prop and poem card:
(Name) be nimble! (Name) be quick! (Name) jump over the candlestick!
Students use a Vis-a-Vis marker to add their names to the poem
before acting it out!
art: Humpty Dumpty (students cut out egg shape and add features
to resemble Humpty Dumpty; then they sponge paint a brick wall for
him to sit on)
writing: What rhymes?
Literature
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlburg
The Missing Tarts by B.G. Hennesey
*Make simple cherry tarts (cherry pie filling in ready to bake tart
shells) to eat while volunteers perform a favorite rhyme
Sing a Song of Mother Goose by Barbara Reid
*Read as many poems as possible... end with "Jack and Jill".
Identify and list pairs of rhyming words on chart paper.
Students create a green torn-paper hill on a blue background.
They glue a picture of a well to the top of the hill and make
popsicle stick puppets for Jack and Jill.
Rhyme Me a Riddle Sing Me a Song (Houghton Mifflin)
*Read "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," focusing on the pairs of
rhyming words. Students complete a rhyme booklet. The booklet
is a piece of legal paper folded in half like a book. The poem is
on the cover and the inside reads:
"What rhymes?"
2 and ___
4 and ___
6 and ___
8 and ___
10 and ___
Students glue the rhyming picture in each blank (shoe, door, etc).
The Glorious Mother Goose by Cooper Edens
Once Upon a Time by John Prater
Mixed-Up Mother Goose
*Students identify the characters in the story. Then, to
complete a Nursery Rhyme Review Book, each student will write
in the initial letter sounds for each character's name:
"__ee __illie __inkie ran down the street," etc.
The Little Dog Laughed and Other Nursery Rhymes by Lucy
Cousins
*Read as many rhymes as possible, but end with "Pat-a-Cake".
Recreate the poem using children's names. Each child illustrates a
cake, frosts it with "fluff" (a wonderful concoction of shaving
cream, glue, and food coloring) and then tops it with the
appropriate die-cut letter for his/her name.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a __.
Then put it in the oven for _______ and me!
Mother Goose by Gyo Fujikawa
*Compare/contrast the way Mother Goose is illustrated in each
of the versions read that week. Record class ideas and
observations on chart paper.
*We also print out copies from enchantedlearning.com to make a
"Rebus Rhymes" book.
*We replace Polly and Sukey with student names in the pocket
chart with "Polly Put the Kettle On". They love singing and
acting it out.
*Hey, Diddle, Diddle and Other Mother Goose Rhymes by Tomie de
Paola"
*Click title for more info
The Missing Tarts by B.G. Hennesey
*Make simple cherry tarts (cherry pie filling in ready to bake tart
shells) to eat while volunteers perform a favorite rhyme
Sing a Song of Mother Goose by Barbara Reid
*Read as many poems as possible... end with "Jack and Jill".
Identify and list pairs of rhyming words on chart paper.
Students create a green torn-paper hill on a blue background.
They glue a picture of a well to the top of the hill and make
popsicle stick puppets for Jack and Jill.
Rhyme Me a Riddle Sing Me a Song (Houghton Mifflin)
*Read "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," focusing on the pairs of
rhyming words. Students complete a rhyme booklet. The booklet
is a piece of legal paper folded in half like a book. The poem is
on the cover and the inside reads:
"What rhymes?"
2 and ___
4 and ___
6 and ___
8 and ___
10 and ___
Students glue the rhyming picture in each blank (shoe, door, etc).
The Glorious Mother Goose by Cooper Edens
Once Upon a Time by John Prater
Mixed-Up Mother Goose
*Students identify the characters in the story. Then, to
complete a Nursery Rhyme Review Book, each student will write
in the initial letter sounds for each character's name:
"__ee __illie __inkie ran down the street," etc.
The Little Dog Laughed and Other Nursery Rhymes by Lucy
Cousins
*Read as many rhymes as possible, but end with "Pat-a-Cake".
Recreate the poem using children's names. Each child illustrates a
cake, frosts it with "fluff" (a wonderful concoction of shaving
cream, glue, and food coloring) and then tops it with the
appropriate die-cut letter for his/her name.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a __.
Then put it in the oven for _______ and me!
Mother Goose by Gyo Fujikawa
*Compare/contrast the way Mother Goose is illustrated in each
of the versions read that week. Record class ideas and
observations on chart paper.
*We also print out copies from enchantedlearning.com to make a
"Rebus Rhymes" book.
*We replace Polly and Sukey with student names in the pocket
chart with "Polly Put the Kettle On". They love singing and
acting it out.
*Hey, Diddle, Diddle and Other Mother Goose Rhymes by Tomie de
Paola"
*Click title for more info
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Links:
Mother Goose Rhymes
Ideas for Mother Goose
A Rhyme a Week
Mother Goose
Mrs. Anderson's Nursery Rhyme Unit
The Mother Goose Pages
Mother Goose Rhymes
Ideas for Mother Goose
A Rhyme a Week
Mother Goose
Mrs. Anderson's Nursery Rhyme Unit
The Mother Goose Pages