State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will grab -um words with their thumbs and will recognize and produce words that rhyme with plum, such as yum, thumb, hum, and gum. 
 
Literacy Activities
Read a nursery rhyme 

• Read the Little Jack Horner nursery rhyme (see below).
• Point out that thumb and plum rhyme.
• Comment on other words that rhyme with thumb (e.g., yum, plum, drum, come, some, gum).

Try to get a plum on your thumb

• Cut out the picture and word cards and put them face down in the container. 
• Have the children get some pretend gum (sticky tack or tape) on their thumbs.
• Let the children put their sticky thumbs in the pan to pull out an -um picture or word card. 
• Name the pictures or read the word cards (e.g., “This word says yum”).
• Have the children say, “I got  _um on my thumb.” 
  • If the word or picture is plum, have the children say, “Yum, plum!”
  • If the word or picture is gum, have the children say, “Yum, gum!”
  • If the word or picture is yum, drum, or hum, model a sad face and have the children look glum.

Produce words that rhyme with plum

• Read the Yum Plum target text (see below) to the children.
• Remind the children that the words gum, hum, drum, come, some, thumb, and crumb rhyme. 
• Have the children think of words that rhyme with plum. Support as needed.