paper ship trip

Overview
The children will take a trip on a ship as they recognize and produce words that rhyme with ship, such as skip, tip, drip, and flip. 
 
Literacy Activities
Ship trip

• Read each word card and demonstrate how to make the paper ship do the actions on the card. 
• Give each child a laminated paper ship and disperse the bowls or tubs of water to each small group of children. 
• Let the children take turns choosing a word card, and read the card out loud for each child. 
• Have the class perform the selected action with his or her laminated ship and say each action as it is performed, encouraging the children to say it with you. 
  • Flip: flip the ship in the tub of water.
  • Skip: skip the ship across the top of the water. 
  • Dip: dip the ship under the water.
  • Drip: Lift the ship and let the water drip back into the tub, or drip onto another ship.
  • Whip: whip the ship quickly through the water. 
  • Zip: zip the ship in a Z shape through the water. 
  • Tip: make the ship tip into the water. 
  • Rip: when the unlaminated ship gets wet enough, it will rip. 
• *You may want to do this activity outside or set towels under the bowls or tubs.

Rip ship

• Have the children call out verbs that rhyme with trip for you to perform with the unlaminated ship. 
• As the ship continues to get wet, it will eventually rip. 
• When the ship finally rips, have the students shout, “Rip ship!” altogether.  

 
More Practice

• Ask the children if they can remember the words that rhyme with ship from the activity. 
• As the children recall the rhyme words, write each word on the board for the students to see. 
• Read the list of words that rhyme with ship, and have the students hold up the ship graphic every time they hear a rhyming word. 
• Make sure you say some words that don’t rhyme with ship.