Overview
The children will swing or ding rings to make music as they add sounds to the -ing ending to make words such as ring, sing, ding, and ping.

Literacy Activities
Sing ding-a-ling and ding a ring

• Display and teach the children the Ding-a-Ling Ding song, sung to the tune of Frere Jaques.
• Point out the words that end with -ing, and then sing it together. 
• Demonstrate how to put the rings on a string by having a child hold one end of the string tightly and slide the rings on.
• Tap the rings with the spoon or swing the string gently (like a jump-rope) to make the rings ding.
• Separate the children into small groups to put their own rings on a string and make them ding. 
• Sing the Ding-a-Ling Ding song again, emphasizing the words that end with -ing.
• Ask the children what words they heard in the activity that end with -ing and write them on the board.
• Let the children invent other words that end with -ing. 
• Have the children write them on a piece of paper, then tell a friend how they made the word (e.g., I put an r in front of -ing and made ring.). 

More Practice
Read target words in a text

• Display the Ding-a-Ling Ding song lyrics. 
• Read the text together as a group.
• Have the children identify the -ing words in the song and take turns circling all the -ing endings.
• Read the text again, separating the beginning sound and -ing word ending when you read the -ing words (e.g., /d/ + /ing/ = ding). 

Clap out sounds in words 

• Have the children take apart the word ring and clap once for each sound in the word (/r/ /i/ /ng/)
• Ask the children how many times they clapped for the word ring (three).
• Clap for each sound in the word ring again to reinforce the model.
• Repeat with other -ing words (e.g., sing, ping, ting, etc.).