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A Puzzling Name
Write each child’s first name on a large card. Laminate or cover with contact
paper.
Cut the card into three puzzle pieces. Make each cut a different shape so the
pieces fit together only one way.
Invite the children to take their names apart and put them back together.
Put each child’s name puzzle in a large envelope. The children can trade
envelopes and try to put each other’s together.
Special Needs Tip
Glue an empty thread spool or cork on each puzzle piece for
a child with fine motor difficulties. Use thick black writing on a
white card for a visually impaired child.
Rhyme Time
Read a book by Dr. Seuss or another one with lots of rhyming words. Talk about
the words that “sound like each other.”
Collect sets of objects that rhyme with each other such as a pair of socks, a few
rocks, a toy fox, and a small box. Collect other items that do not rhyme with
these items such as a truck, a ball, and a crayon.
Gather a few children together. Keep one of the rhyming objects and let the
children each choose one of the others.
Ask the children to name the item you are holding—socks, for example.
Ask each child to name their object and tell if it sounds like “socks.”
Put the objects that rhyme in one pile and the ones that do not in another.
Make up some silly words that rhyme with socks, rocks, fox, and box.
Special Needs Tip
Invite a child who uses sign language to teach some of the
rhyming words to the other children.
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