Happy Driving Over Hearts {A Elementary Rhyming In Addition To Reading Game}
January 02, 2019
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My boy volition move turning 5 side past times side calendar month too is starting kindergarten inward the Fall. Each nighttime earlier he goes to bed nosotros receive got particular reading too learning fourth dimension together. This calendar week we've been talking virtually rhyming words too receive got been sounding out elementary words similar hat, cat, ram, jam, etc.
We decided to receive got the words we've been learning too do a elementary game using some matchbox cars too newspaper hearts.
Our Driving Over Hearts game is a fun means to search for rhyming or word household unit of measurement words and practise reading them! This game could easily move adapted for younger kids past times using alphabet letters, shapes, or colors instead.
Supplies Needed: scissors, colored paper, marker, tape, too a matchbox automobile (or 2 or three)
How to gear upward the game:
Cut out several hearts from colored paper.
Write discussion household unit of measurement words or simply rhyming words on each heart. Make certain yous receive got several sets of rhyming words.
Tape the hearts downward on the table. We taped ours onto drawing newspaper thus that nosotros tin sack hang them upward on the wall later.
How to play the game:
Choose a pump too read the discussion aloud.
Take your automobile too get-go on the discussion yous read aloud too get the automobile simply about the game board until yous respect a discussion that rhymes or is a discussion household unit of measurement word.
Drive exclusively on run past times of the hearts that acquire to together too effort too avoid touching whatever of the other hearts.
Keep runway of how many sets of discussion hearts (ex. sat, hat, rat, mat would all move i set) yous are able to position too get over without touching the other words!
Play in i lawsuit again too in i lawsuit again until yous acquire bored.
Use the game gear upward every bit a springboard for to a greater extent than learning depending on your child's interests. My boy wanted to do to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than rhyming hearts past times writing them out himself, thus nosotros kept adding to our collection of hearts too and thus driving over them too and thus writing to a greater extent than too driving more. I loved how nosotros managed to embed reading too writing into this activity.
How to Adapt for Younger Kids:
Create hearts amongst numbers, letters, shapes, colors or a multifariousness of everything. Have your kid effort too get over all of the letters or all of the colors too avoid whatever of the other categories. If yous simply role missive of the alphabet hearts, receive got your kid effort too get the automobile sequentially through the alphabet spell singing the ABC song. Even younger kids could get over all of the hearts that are i detail color too practise maxim the color names spell they are driving their cars.