Yummy In My Tummy!
Taylor Striblin
Rationale:
This lesson will help children identify /m/, the phoneme represented by M. Students will learn to recognize /m/ in spoken words by learning a meaningful representation (rubbing your belly when something tastes yummy) and the letter symbol M, practice finding /m/ in words, and apply phoneme awareness with /m/ in phonetic cue reading by distinguishing rhyming words from beginning letters.
Materials:
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Primary paper and pencil
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Chart with "Many monkeys made a muddy mess"
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Drawing paper and crayons
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Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Christelow, Eileen. Clarion Books, c1963)
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YouTube singalong video for “Five Little Monkeys”
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Word cards with MOP, TAP, MAT, MEET, BITE, MATE and FAKE
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Assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /m/ (URL below)
Procedures:
1. Say: Our written language is a secret code. To understand the code, we must know all the letters in the alphabet and the sounds they make. We also have to learn the mouth moves we make as we say the sounds. Today we're going to work on the letter M. We will work on the mouth move for /m/. We spell /m/ with letter M. M looks like two hills, and /m/ sounds like the sound you make when you eat something yummy. /mmmmm/
2. Let's pretend we’re eating something yummy and rub our tummies, /m/, /m/, /m/. (Rub your tummy.) Notice where your lips are when you say /m/, they come together and touch each other. (Point to your lips). When we say /m/ our top and bottom lips come together, and the sound comes out between them.
3. Let me show you how to find /m/ in the word camp. I'm going to stretch camp out in slow motion and listen for the “yummy in my tummy” sound. Ccc-a-a-amp. Let’s try that a little slower: Ccc-a-a-a-mmm-p. There it was! I felt my lips come together and the /m/ sound come out between them. I can feel the “yummy in my tummy” in camp.
4. Let's try a tongue twister (on chart). "Many monkeys made a muddy mess." Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /m/ at the beginning of the words. "Mmmany mmmonkeys mmmade a mmmuddy mmmess." Try it again, and this time break the /m/ sound off the word: "/m/ any /m/ onkeys /m/ ade a /m/ uddy /m/ ess. Good job!
5. (Have students take out primary paper and pencil). We use letter M to spell /m/. Capital M looks like two big hills. Let's write the lowercase letter m. Start at the belt and go down to the feet. Make one little hill, and then another little hill. I want to see everybody's m. After I see your m and put a smiley face on it, I want you to make nine more m’s just like that one.
6. Have students rub their tummies if they hear /m/ in a word or to sit still if they don’t hear /m/. Do you hear /m/ in man or fan? Boot or moose? Home or goat? Pam or bat? Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /m/ in some words. Rub your tummy if you hear /m/: mountain, chop, mouse, boat, ham, foot, time, mean, share, mist, rhyme.
7. Say: "Let's look at a singalong book. This book his called Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. Every time you hear me say /m/, rub your tummy! Read the singalong book, putting emphasis on every word with the m sound. Ask students to write out “monkey” using invented spelling. Then have them draw their own monkeys. Display their work.
8. Now we will watch the “Five Little Monkeys” video to go over the /m/ sound. Be sure to sing along and rub your tummy if you say /m/! (Play video.) (URL below)
9. Show MOP and model how to decide if it is mop or top. The M tells me to rub my tummy, /m/… I feel my lips come together and touch so this word is mmm-op, mop. You try some: TAP: tap or map? MAT: mat or pat? MEET: meet or feet? BITE: bite or mite? MATE: mate or gate? FAKE: fake or make?
10. For assessment, distribute the worksheet in the materials above. Students are to complete the partial spellings and color the pictures that begin with M. Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #9.
References:
Haley Miller, M says /m/, Yummy in my Tummy. http://hlm0012.wixsite.com/haleymiller/emergent-literacy
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NHrFNZWh0
Assessment worksheet: http://www.kidzone.ws/images-changed/kindergarten/m-as-begins2.gif
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. Christelow, Eileen. Clarion Books, c1963
