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Focus

Sierra Bear Rhymes With Chair is designed to give practice in Language Arts skills including rhyming sounds, vocabulary building, left to right reading, a statement versus a question, and use of punctuation and capitalization. Teachers of E.S.L. classes use this activity to teach a broad range of vocabulary.

Management

1. For an additional activity, prior to the lesson, duplicate the large Sierra Bear onto bond paper using 11 each of three different colors. This activity will give an additional opportunity to practice skills such as patterning, counting, alphabetical order, and more.
2. Arrange the I have, Who has cards in a random order, face down.
3. Glue one large Sierra Bear to the back of each of the I have, Who has cards using an a,b,c, patterned order of color. For example; red on the first card, blue on the second card, yellow on the third card, red on the fourth card, blue on the fifth card, and yellow on the sixth card, and so on repeating the pattern to the 33rd card.
4. With a black marking pen, write either the letters (on Sierra Bearºs stomach) in large, bold print, in A,B,C,D,E,F,G” order, or numerals in 1”33 order, or skip counting, 2,4,6,8,”46, or whatever other skill you could sequence.
5. Laminate the cards for extended use.

Procedure

The 33 Sierra Bear Rhymes With Chair cards can be used as a whole class experience or use only a partial set for a small group.

1. Randomly distribute the cards to 33 students.
2. Ask one student to move to the front of the class. Direct them to begin by reading out loud, the sentences on their card. For example; Sierra Bear rhymes with chair. What rhymes with snail?
3. Someone will be holding the only correct response card in the group and should join the first student at the front of the class. Direct this child to stand right next to the first and to respond orally, by reading; Whale rhymes with snail. What rhymes with gate?
4. These responses will continue throughout the group of 33 students until the last one reads their card which will lead back to the beginning card. For example; Coat rhymes with boat. What rhymes with chair? When the first student responds to this last card, you will know that the exercise has come full circle.
5. You should now have 33 students at the front of the class holding their rhyming cards. Direct these students to turn their cards over, showing the class the large Sierra Bears.
6. Ask the class if these cards are in the correct counting order, A,B,C,D, order, etc. (depending on how you labeled them). The answer will always be no, because you arranged the correct pattern in a random order so that the students will now need to problem solve to re-arrange themselves into the correct order. Ask the students holding the cards to arrange themselves in the correct order or sequence.
7. Once they have arranged themselves in the correct order, they will have also formed a color pattern with their cards (because of the way you labeled the cards originally). Ask the class to name the pattern formed with color as well as numbers or letters.

NOTES TO THE TEACHERS

• You can begin the exercise with any card and it will always lead back to that beginning card after 32 responses. Because of this design, the students will more than likely not memorize the order in which the questions fall and will need to sharpen their listening skills.
• This activity is one of several Honey Pot Press activities which can be used as a quick drill and practice exercise. Teachers use them with their opening activities with calendar, roll call, etc. They use them just before time to line up for lunch, recess, etc. They are great in a learning station to extend lessons in math and language arts.
• A Sierra Bear Rhyming Lotto is available to use to teach the rhyming vocabulary used on the cards. This activity can be used prior to the lesson or for further practice for individual practice or small groups of students. The cards have the picture and the vocabulary word. The cards can be used as vocabulary flashcards or students can match rhyming cards as a lotto activity.

Other practice exercises available in the format

• Three Pigs Add and Colors
• Three Pigs Count and Colors
• Gingerbread Man Colors
• Gingerbread Man Count and Colors
• Gingerbread Man Add
• Shapes and Colors
• Sierra Bear Shapes & Position

Many are Available in Spanish!

Price: $10.00 per set

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