Overview
The children will pretend to exercise as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with slim, such as trim, swim, Jim, and Tim. 

Literacy Activity

• As a class, make a list on the board of real and nonsense names that rhyme with slim (e.g., Jim, Tim, Bim, Fim, Zim). 
• Invite the children to find space to stand. 
• Choose one child to come up, choose a name from the list on the board, and say, “Hi, I’m ___ (e.g., Jim, Tim, Bim, Fim). Let’s be slim and trim.”  
• While you beat a rhythm on the drum, have all of the children dance in their personal spaces and say the Slim and Trim chant. 
• When you have finished the chant, have the children freeze. 
• Have the children stay frozen while you choose another child to come up, choose a name, and repeat the process.  
• Play until each child has had a turn. 

 
More Practice

• Have each child use one of the words that rhymes with slim to fill in the sentence, “I am slim and trim like ___” in front of the class.
• Have the class repeat each child’s sentence by saying, “We are slim and trim like ___.”
• Continue until each child has had a turn.