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Nursery rhyme illustration: dish running away with spoon.

Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach

By Lisa Wright

10 Matching with The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Learning outcomes

Students will gain experience matching objects according to pattern.

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

40 minutes

Materials needed

  • Ladle and bowl
  • Patterned card stock or wallpaper to make matching shoe cutouts — have enough different patterns so there’s one for each student (See “Pre-activities” below)
  • Optional: Recording of “The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” from nursery rhyme CD, such as 100 Songs for Kids or text version from nursery rhyme book
  • Nursery Rhyme Flip Chart or large chart paper with the nursery rhyme “The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” written on it
  • Optional: Nursery rhyme felt board, available from the Felt Source website
  • Two Little Shoes by Razvan and Deborah Stupple

Pre-activities

  • Prepare the shoe cut-outs for the matching activity:
    • Draw or trace the outline of a shoe on patterned card stock or wallpaper. Make two matching shoes with each different pattern. Be sure to make enough pairs so there’s one pair for each student
    • Cut out the shoes.
  • If you’re not using a flip chart, write the nursery rhyme on chart paper for students to see.

Activities

  1. Anticipatory set: Ask the students what it would be like to live in a shoe with lots of other children. What would be good or bad about it?
  2. Play the recording of “The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe,” or read the rhyme to the class.
  3. Have the students recite the rhyme with you, reading from the chart. If you’re using a felt board, add felt pieces to the board as the rhyme is recited.
  4. Hand out a wallpaper (or card stock) shoe to each student.
  5. One at a time, hold up each of the shoes, and have the student with the matching shoe bring it to you.
  6. Read the story Two Little Shoes to the class.
  7. Conclude the lesson by having a discussion about the nursery rhyme. Possible questions to ask the students
    • Who lives in your house with you?
    • How do you think shoes are made?
    • How would the shape of the shoe make living in it difficult?
    • What are some different types of shoes — especially for different types of jobs?

Assessment

Check to make sure students match the correctly patterned shoe. Assess by answers to the concluding questions.

North Carolina curriculum alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Kindergarten

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
    • Objective 1.02: Develop phonemic awareness and knowledge of alphabetic principle:
      • demonstrate understanding that spoken language is a sequence of identifiable speech sounds.
      • demonstrate understanding that the sequence of letters in the written word represents the sequence of sounds in the spoken word.
      • demonstrate understanding of the sounds of letters and understanding that words begin and end alike (onsets and rimes).

Mathematics (2004)

Kindergarten

  • Goal 5: Algebra - The learner will model simple patterns and sort objects.