Overview
The children will swing –ing things as they add sounds to the -ing ending to make words such as swing, thing, string, and sing.

Literacy Activities
Swing –ing things.

• Attach a paperclip to each picture card and place them in your container.
• Teach the children the Swing a Thing song, sung to the tune of "Give, Said the Little Stream".
• Have the children go out to the swings in the playground. 
• Take the fishing pole (stick with string and magnet) and container and have each child take a “thing” (carpet square or piece of paper) to sit on. 
• Gather as a group by the swings. 
• Choose several children to fish for a thing picture card with the stick. 
• Allow those children to swing on the swings with their things while the other children sit on their “thing” and sing the Swing a Thing song. (If swings are not easily accessible, have children take turns gently swinging their –ing thing at the end of the pole.)

More Practice
Read target words in a text 

• Read the target text "Swing a Thing" together as a class. 
• Read the text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in –ing.

Write about the activity using target words

• Put the children in small groups and give each group a set of word blending cards. 
• Have children work together to make –ing words. 
• Have each child tell you what his or her “thing” (picture) was.
• Write the name of each “thing” on the board.
• Read this list together. After you read the list, erase all the first sounds of the words and ask the children what sound is left.