92 Kings and Queens: Supplemental Guide 4B | Sing a Song of Sixpence
Extensions 15 minutes
Rhyming Words
- Tell students that you will read this nursery rhyme again, but this time
you want them to listen carefully for rhyming words. - Remind students that rhyming words begin with a different sound but
end with the same sound. Have students tell you words that rhyme
with jig, play, mat, and pin, respectively.
Show image 5A-1: Blackbirds
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds
[Tell students to raise their hands when they hear a word that rhymes with rye.]
Baked in a pie.
[Point out that pie rhymes with rye.]
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Now wasn’t that a dainty dish
[Tell students to raise their hands when they hear a word that rhymes with sing.]
To set before the king?
[Point out that king rhymes with sing.]
Show image 5A-2: King counting and queen eating
The king was in his counting house
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
SSing a Song of Sixpenceing a Song of Sixpence