Down by the Bay

Designed by: Virginia P. Riddle,  AC Moore

Grade Level:  Kindergarten    Subject:  Reading

1) Core Curriculum Objective: Participate in language experiences (such as songs, finger plays, poetry, retelling stories, drama, predictable books, etc.).  (K-SK-1), (K-VW-7)

Hear patterns in words (such as rhyming words and beginning and ending sounds- auditory discrimination.

2) Overview:    Using the song, "Down by the Bay" from Raffi's Singable Songs for the Very Young, Shoreline, 1998, students will create new verses and hear rhyming words.

3) Purpose/Essential Question:    Do some words have a pattern? Do the words rhyme?

4) Time Frame: one thirty-minute class period

5) Resources/Materials

Raffi's Singable Songs for the Very Young, Shoreline, 1998

Word cards with rhyming words from "Down by the Bay"

Sentence strips     

Markers          

Blackboard

6) Assessment:

Given the following pairs of rhyming words, students are able to determine whether or not they rhyme.

goat/boat      hot/pup      mad/sad      go/come     away/here     slow/blow

Teacher uses the rubric to score.

7) Instructional Activity:

Teacher introduces and teaches the song, "Down by the Bay". Teacher discusses rhyming words and displays those found in the song for the students to see. The students give the teacher additional rhyming words, with which they could make new verses to the song. The teacher writes these words on the blackboard and discusses with the students. The teacher then writes the new words on sentence strips. The children sing the song again and add the new verses, which they made up.

Extensions:

Writing :

Each student or pairs of students would illustrate the verses of the original song. Each student would illustrate his/her new verse. Teacher and students would make a "Down by the Bay" book with the illustrations.

Math:

Serve watermelon slices and have the students count and graph the number of seeds in their slices.