Fruit Salad: Phonemes and Syllables

Stay active and encourage healthy eating with favorite fruits. This lesson emphasizes multiple core learning competencies including phonological awareness and greater than and less than number concepts.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify the amount of syllables in their favorite fruits. Students will be able to understand greater than and less than mathematics principles.

Introduction

(15 minutes)

Jump as a group to count the syllables in each person's name, with one jump per syllable. For example, for the name Christopher, have students jump as a group 3 different times, once per syllable.
Now, ask students to tell you their favorite fruits.