Super Sleuth Blog Hop Stop #11

The Case of the Missing Nursery Rhymes

Calling all young detectives!!  My nursery rhyme objects got all mixed up and I need help matching them to the correct rhyme!

This activity asks students to read through 8 different nursery rhymes with you.  Then they must look at clues and decide which rhyme the clues match to.  It is a great way to get our younger students to think critically about the text. It forces the students to do more than read on the surface.  They must think critically and problem solve! This is also an excellent activity that can be used for a Family Literacy Event.

This detective bundle includes:

• Classroom and Event ideas
• Family invitation
• Nursery Rhyme book
• Detective Notebook
• and A Powerpoint to display the rhymes

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Now that you've learned a little about the missing nursery rhymes, you're ready for my clue.  On your form, you can record the letter. (If you don't have the form--head back to stop #1.)

If this is your first stop, you can start at stop #1 with Comprehension Connection.
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 Hope you enjoy your detective journey! Now, on to the...

  

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1. Comprehension Connection

2. Dont Let the Teacher Stay Up Late

3. The Reading Tutor/ OG

4. Learning Fundamentals

5. Reading and Writing Redhead

6. Ms. Ds Literacy Lab

7. Conversations in Literacy

8. Teacher Mom of Three

9. A Day in the Life of a Title 1 Teacher

10. Luckeyfrog"s Lilypad

11. Curious Firsties

12. All Four Reading

13. Thinking Out Loud

14. Ms. Jordan Reads

15. Big Time Literacy

16. Read with Me ABC

17. Teaching With Nancy

18. This Little Piggy Reads

19. The Literacy Minute

20. Book Units Teacher

21. Reading Toward the Stars

22. The Literacy Garden

23. Im Lovin Lit

24. Ripper Resources

25. Teachers Take-Out

26. Sweet Integrations

27. Reading is Elementary

28. The Rungs of Reading

Let's Get Acquainted

 I thought I would join in on Mrs. Reed's Let's Get Aquainted!

Dream Vacation
I really enjoy traveling.  Seeing new places, trying new food...but I have never left North America.  I have always wanted to go across to Europe.  I am not too picky on what part of Europe.  Ireland has always looked beautiful to me...

 And Italy would be so nice...

 I would also not be opposed to Paris :)

 But in all honesty...I am happy to go anywhere.  I love to see new places.
Books I'm Reading
Summer is really my only time to dive into some fiction books. Reason being: once I dive in...I don't come back up until I am done with the book. My sister let me borrow her Emily Giffin books.  So my summer book list has been (and still is)...

  I have dabbled in some school reading as well.  Truthfully, only a little. Reason being:  see fiction books above!  Here's what I've been reading:

 Hobbies
I have always enjoyed making things.  Sounds generic.  But it kind of is.  Sometimes I like to make skirts--I made this one this week.

 Sometimes it is bird feeders--I made this one last week.

 Sometimes it is baking and cooking--we made these frozen grape treats yesterday.

And I love to make activities for school.  Like this Nursery Rhyme Mystery activity I finished yesterday.

Honestly, I don't think I have perfected any of these creative endeavors.  But I enjoy trying to make new things.  I like the challenge.  So I keep trying.

Rhyme, Oh Rhyme

  This book has started to look very worn-out loved in my room.  I have been using it to assess my students at the beginning, middle, and end of year on phonological awareness.  It is so exciting to see the progress that our little firsties can make during a year!

I am all about the nursery rhymes at the beginning of the year.  I love to empower the students to change the rhymes to make them silly and their own.  And once again, the firsties are loving it so far!

The first one that I did this year was with Humpty Dumpty.

click HERE to download

After reading the rhyme over and over, the students added their own name.  "Em, Bem" or "Ruby, Suby"

The following week, our firsties thought about other places that Humpty Dumpty could sit.  Then they had to come up with a rhyme to follow it.

They came up with:

"Humpty Dumpty sat in a tree, Humpty Dumpty got stung by a bee."

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a seat.  Humpty Dumpty has smelly feet."

So...let's move on.

I taught our firsties "Pease Porridge Hot" (which I had never heard before last year)!  We worked on orally changing the first sound of the words.  Tomorrow they will get to decide what sound they want to change and I will make some little mini books for them.

click HERE to download

I get a little worried that this activity may seem too easy because alliteration is something that my group can do orally.  But I like the mini books because it is something they can take ownership in.  It also forces them to look at the beginning sounds that their fellow firsties choose.

Love the rhymes!

Em