Recently, I hosted co-op and did a lesson on Hink Pinks. I've always loved these one syllable silly rhyming pairs. There are two-syllable pairs- Hinky Pinky and three-syllable ones- Hinkety Pinkety
Example:
What is an unhappy father? Sad Dad
I found some great resources online:
We did lots of riddles then broke up into groups. Each group had to come up with a rhyming word pair. Then a riddle question to go with the pair. You should encourage figuring out the rhyming word pairs first. It's much easier that way.
After playing with hink pinks for a while, we moved onto a music lesson. I did a lesson on forte-piano. We made forte-piano signs on an index card. As we listened to William Tell's overture by Rossini, we turned our cards to match if the music was forte or piano.
I taught (or refreshed their memory for some) John Jacob Jingle Heimerschimdt to illustrate this. Then, we made our own body percussion rainstorm. (variation of the lesson) Finally, we played a hot/cold musical game called Button, You Must Wander. (someone hides the button, the kids sing forte/piano to help the seeker find the button)
Our wild rainstorm
