Today's Classroom Activities :

Rebus Stories Classroom Activities

Reading the Rebus
Reading Collect several rebus stories from children's magazines in your library. Read several to and with your students. Then ask the children to cut pictures out of magazines or catalogs that they could use in a rebus story. Provide construction paper hearts on which to affix the pictures. In group time, write your students' stories on chart paper.

Friendship Stories
Writing Use this activity as a chance for your students to get to know each other. Take digital pictures of each student and print two of each photo, one small and one large. Use the large ones to make a rebus story together on large paper. Then divide the students into groups. Help each group incorporate the smaller photos in a rebus story about the friends in that particular group.

Listening Rebus
Reading Tell a story about animals, assigning each child a particular animal. Whenever his or her animal is mentioned, the child makes their animal's sound. Next, tell the story with the kids holding up signs depicting their animals. When their animals are mentioned, the children will raise their signs and growl, honk or meow.