Do you think four year olds would be able to match a picture with a picture that rhymes with the picture?

Question

for example: if I had a picture of a cake and asked them to pick either a picture of a rake, a picture of a shoe, or a picture of a dog and they had to choose the rake because that rhymes with cake...do you think four year olds could do that? did that make sense? please help

I'm reading the book The Hungry Thing to a four year old classroom at a local preschool I need to include a song/game/science experiment... to go along with it. I was afraid that rhyming would be too hard. Does anyone have any ideas? The book is about a monster that comes to a village with a sign that says feed me. He doesn't pronounce words correctly when he asks for food. For example, when he wants pancakes he asks for shmancakes. The townspeople feed him and at the end he flips the sign over and it reads thank you. I need an activity that correlates with the book. Please help.

Answer 1

Four year olds typicly love rhyming. My Four year old class rhymed everything ie thing sing ping ding ring hing bing king ying....
As long as the pictures are not ambiguous(one child might think rose, while another thinks flower) they will do fine.
Another idea....
That book sets a tone to do a table manners lesson. Maybe at snack time set up a pretend restaurant. I did one where the kids could choose bread with Jam, Peanut butter, or cream cheese. Half the kids were waiters/waitresses. They took orders from the other kids, and delivered snacks, of course practicing please and thank you's. Then they switched roles.

Answer 2

Although some books will tell you that four year olds can rhyme, many can't, which leads to an awkward time in the classroom.

For an activity, maybe you could have the kids come up with their own funny ways to ask for their favorite foods. You could take pretend food from the dramatic play area and set it out on the floor or a table (whereever you're doing the activity). Then, the children could take turns being the townspeople (guessing and handing out the food asked for) and the monster (making up funny names for the food). As a former preschool teacher, I think that four year olds would have a good time with that game. (Of course, you'll probably have to listen to "shmancakes" and "papplesnauce" for a week!) :o)

Answer 3

I think if the class has already been working on rhyming then they could do it. If not then you could use it as a pre-assessment activity to see who understands who doesn't. Remember that with any lesson you should make sure they understand what you are asking. Show them the pictures and make sure they can name each picture. Also, you could cut out pictures out of magazines of objects like a cat, rat, mat, juice and ask which does not rhyme. Refer to Dr. Seuss when talking about rhyme most of them have read at least one Dr. Seuss book or at least watched the movie. I also like the idea of asking the children what the monster is really asking for this would be a great lead in for your activity.

I hope this helps and the best of luck

Answer 4

They would be able to rhyme but you made need to help them. You need to tell them what rhyming words are. Give some of your own examples like cat and bat. Then do the exercise.
For example: You have a picture of a cake...
take the picture of the shoe and say, "does Shoe rhyme with Cake?" they will hopefully say no...move onto the next picture until you get to the rhyming word. If you think they are catching on by themselves, then you can stop helping them and have them figure it out.

Answer 5

Possibly. My son was 5 before he could catch on to the rhyming. However, my grandson is 3 1/2 and he almost has it. We play some games doing just as you described and some days he can do it and other days he struggles.

All you can do is try. Some of them may catch on and others not. But if it is a game, they will try and still enjoy it.

Answer 6

You might try to teach them about rhyming. For this book I would recommend that you have a class activity where you say what the monster says, then ask the class to sing out what he really wants. Like your example, he says shmancakes, ask what does the monster want? PANCAKES!

Answer 7

Technically they should IF they understand what rhyme is. You have two concepts going on here. You may need to teach the concept of rhyming first.

Answer 8

I dont think the average 4 year old would understand the instructions. Well, actually Im pretty certain they wont.

They can match pictures easiy enough though.

Answer 9

i really don't think that 4 year olds would do that yet. 5 & 6 yr olds do thatbecause their hearing is more developed.

Answer 10

No probably not