Language Arts Idea #4
                          Rhyming Riddles


Objective:
     Use  what  students have learned about the various fruits  and
     vegetables  from "5 A Day Adventures" to describe  fruits  and
     vegetables using rhyming verses.

Rationale:
     This  activity  gives students an opportunity to  think  about
     fruits  and  vegetables in terms of their color, shape,  size,
     texture, taste, and other facts about them such as where  they
     grow  and  ways  to fit them into their "5 a  Day".   It  also
     incorporates  the  language arts skills of writing  and  using
     rhyming words.

Materials:
     'Rhyming Riddles' sheet
     Notebook or construction paper for student-created riddles

Introduction:
     Refer  to  or  have students look at the section Serving  Size
     Land  in  "5 A Day Adventures".  Point out how Stan and  Sarah
     speak in rhymes.  Discuss rhyming words and riddles.

Class Activity:
     Let  the  students  practice making up a  fruit  or  vegetable
     riddle  as  a class.  Prompt them by asking the color,  shape,
     etc. of the fruit or vegetable.

Group/Individual Activity:
     *    Give students the sheet 'Rhyming Riddles.'  Read over the
          instructions  with  them, and   have  them  complete  the
          sheet as a group or individually.
     *     Give the students a chance to share their riddles  with
          others.

Related Activities:
     *    Have students write poems or descriptors in the shape of
          the fruit or vegetable:
     *    Students may write limericks about fruits and vegetables.
          A  limerick  consists of five lines.  The first,  second,
          and fifth lines rhyme and lines three and four rhyme.
     *    Acrostic poems may be written by the students.  Have them
          write the name of a fruit or  vegetable vertically  on  a
          piece  of paper.  Then, a word or words are written  next
          to each   letter of the vertical word such that a poem is
          formed.  For example,


                         A ll
                         P erfect
                         P eople
                         L ove
                         E ating apples!

                          Rhyming Riddles

Stan and Sarah love vegetables,
And of course they love their fruits.
No matter if they come from trees,
Or leaves or stems or roots.

Stan and Sarah like rhyming words.
They use them all the time.
Can you make up some riddles
And try to make them rhyme?



Try to answer this riddle!

     I'm yellow and I'm sweet.
     I'm what monkeys like to eat.
     I grow in trees.
     Serve me with peanut butter, please!

          What am I? _______________________________



     Now, make up riddles about other fruits and vegetables.  Think
about:

          Color, shape and size of fruits and vegetables

          How does it taste?

          How does it feel?

          Why is it good for you?

          What can you learn about the fruit or vegetable from  its
          color?

          What are different ways to eat the fruit or vegetable?



















5 A Day Adventures: Language Arts Idea # 4