My 5 y/o son starts Kindergarten this Fall. He is still having problems with rhyming. It just doesn’t click it seems. I’ve been working on it with him for awhile but I don’t push it too much.
We incorporate rhyming into everything!! I bought him a rhyming game that he loves to play and we sing song with rhyming words. We watch Super Why and he even has the Super Why board game.
My neighbor says he is behind and needs to know concept of rhyming before kindergarten. Is she right??
Any tips for me please??
Other than the rhyming he is a very bright child.
Yes my son knows his letters and sounds, can read, write and do simple math. He is also good at science and art. He even got 100% when they did a little quiz on the solar system. He is in Pre-K.
The rhyming...not so much =-)
AnneMarie F = I laughed out loud when I read your comment. Priceless! Now i wish I still got the paper!
Thank you ladies! I feel much better and I'll just keep having fun in teaching him. Just like when I taught him everything else he knows!
Lee P. I was stressing because my neighbor said "he is behind" when she already knows he is bright otherwise. He isn't overqualified for Kindergarten actually. he is in the middle compared to other children his age, but to me he is perfect and the brightest kid around! =-)
There is no requirement for rhyming for kindergarten (or any grade) as far as I know. We read a lot of Dr Seuss and we loved them all.
I have never heard of a Kindergarten age child having to know rhyming beforehand. It's something they learn in Kindergarten and first grade.
Kindergarten teachers are just wonderful and know so many creative ways to teach the boy to rhyme. I think you are doing all the right things. He will pick it up before you know it. September is SO many months away.
Do you still have your Sunday newspaper? Roll it up and go whack your neighbor on the head with it.
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My mom got a note from my kindergarten teacher
Mrs. S would you please help Marjorie with her Simon Says? She doesnt' quite understand it at all.
I was 5. Mom framed it and sent it to me years ago.
Your son will be fine.
He'll get the hang of rhyming.
You're doing all the right things to help him do that.
For heaven's sake, I've never heard of a rhyming requirement.
Even if there was, why get worked up about it just yet?
September is 7 months away.
Your son is just fine.
Best wishes.
I can't fathom why you'd be concerned if your kid can do all the things you said, and he's not even IN kindergarten yet. Seriously. This is kindertgarten, not college. Sounds to me like your son might be a little over-qualified for kindergarten.
My niece didn't understand rhyming before 1st grade. I really hate people like your neighbor. Ugh if only dumb people would keep their mouths shut. Life would be easier.
oh for pete's sake. your neighbor is talking out of her rear. lots of kids don't even go to preschool before kindergarten. i'm sure he'll be fine. they're not going to refuse to let him go to kindergarten because he isn't getting rhyming yet.
not only that, many of these responses are from far away from you. probably best to find these answers closer to home - state requirements, even contact the school he will go to. good luck! don't let her make you feel bad. grr.
That is so weird that you wrote this, I just got a note home , midterm review, from my daughters kindergarten teacher (and she is 6) saying she doesnt understand rhyming. I am not concerned at all. I think it is just one of those learned things. I will keep reading her books and working with her, but I am not going to shove it down her throat. I think a lot is expected of kindergartners these days :-)
We all learn at different speeds. I will worry when she cant rhyme when reading books to her own kids.
no, your neighbor is not right...
Your son will know what rhyming is by Fall. Keep playing your games and explaining it to him. A light bulb will go off in his head and he'll get it ;)
Mmmm -yes and no. Children are expected to get rhyming concepts by kindergarten and prek tests include rhyming portions. However, not every kid is the same, so that particular thing may just be taking longer to click. At this age it may also click VERY suddenly -like tomorrow out of the blue or one random day in July. I wouldn't sweat it. They'll work on it more in kindergarten and no one is going to kick him out of kindergarten or "fail" him for not getting rhyming. He'll get it eventually. IF he's having multiple issues with letters, numbers, shapes, colors -many things he needs to know going into kindergarten, then you may want to look into it more closely, but he sounds pretty normal to me (and I used to test prek kids ages 3 and 4 on two different national standardized tests for a curriculum company).
No, your neighbor is not right.
I have never heard of this before...and have a grip of kids!
Oh please! My daughter didn't know her letters, the teacher introduced them in new ways than I did and she got them in the 1st month! Made me feel dumb but my 3 year old is reading so I figure I teach better to his learning style. Don't sweat it!
I teach Kindergarten in a district that is very demanding. Rhyming is something we teach during the K year. It is not part of our pre K screening, we do assess the students knowledge in the fall of kindergarten to see who needs to work on it and who already has a good understanding. Read rhyming stories but dont worry he has a year and a half to get it by the end of K
Well our school district is extremely competive. Whatever you can do to get your child will help for next year. Try reading Dr Seuss books. Try Leap Frog. I would make your child knows all their letters. I would start having practicing writing letters and the sounds for each letter
My 5 year old daughter who is half way through her kindergarten year, doesn't understand rhyming at all. Your neighbor is a lunatic. Don't put unnecessary pressure on your son.
No worries...he will figure it out...if not...he will have to give up that poetry career you and your hubby have been dreaming about ;)!
Besides that...I taught my youngsters how to rhyme just by making up silly stupid rhymes to everything we saw while driving or in restaurants. I would say "light, tight, fight, sight"...and his older brother or my husband would chime in with whatever they could think of until we ran out of words. It became a contest to see how long we could make up words that would rhyme...and who could get the last one in. We would do it with anything we could think of.
Well I'd like to point out that yes, in fact there is a "requirement" to know how to rhyme...I'm a bit surprised at some of the responses. Rhyming is an important skill in both verbal and written language, so yes, it is a big deal BUT it is not a big deal that your son doesn't have it down yet. As someone else said September is still far away and I would continue working on it. If you feel like he's pretty much up to par on the other stuff then I wouldn't sweat it. I would say though that he should know his alphabet and letter sounds by the time he enters Kindergarten and if he doesn't know those, get working on it. You are doing all the right things so he'll get it soon!
rhyming is something they will work on later. and not as the concept of rhyming but as a concept in spelling
ex: look we can make the word bat be lots of other words by changing this letter..... cat, hat, mat etc.... you introduce the "word" rhyming into it much like you introduce the word add, subtract etc... its not something they should no going in.
I know they have worked on rhyming words in my daughter's kindergarten class, but I don't think it was expected that kids understood the concept before school started. I wouldn't stress over it. Just keep working on it with him. Kids learn stuff at all different rates. If you stress about it than he might too, and you definitely don't want him starting school feeling stressed out.
No! No, he doesn't need to know the concept of ANYTHING before Kindergarden. Dont pressure him and dont stress yourself out. Focus of manners, sharing and listening if you're worried about preparing him for K. Enjoy him at this stage, once he starts school, he'll mature so much.
