Poems for the Whole Year

My kinder kids love poetry journals! They love adding poems to their journal and rereading their favorites! There are so many benefits to children reading poetry. Poetry encourages children to read, builds phonemic awareness and builds essential skills like rhyming, vocabulary, fluency, expression, and writing. I rounded up all the poems I use in a school year and put them all in one place.

I love reading Jack Prelutsky to my children! These two books are filled with cute rhymes.

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Here are some of the poems we have added to our poetry journals!

Grab all the poems for the whole year here!

If you are looking for color poems you can find them here. 

Down By The Bay

 We love singing Down By The Bay on repeat and creating our own rhymes. It's so catchy and fun to sing (especially with jazz hands). I created this little song book for my kiddos to create their own rhyme. It's one of their favorite books to read.

 

We did more rhyming practice in our interactive notebook.

Take a look by clicking the picture below.

Rhyming

We have been having a lot of fun rhyming lately! Here of some of the things I do to help kids learn how to rhyme.

 I found these adorable white boards in the Target dollar spot. I made a bunch of these rhyming cards to be used in our word work station. The kids pick a card and then rhyme words that end in -an. Adding the white boards make it extra fun!

Here are some fun rhyming songs on YouTube.

 

 

You can find all of the activities in my new rhyming unit on TPT.