Kindergarden - Kings and Queens

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

4 B