- name cards
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g. taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3.c: Recognize one’s own name and familiar common signs and labels (e.g., STOP).
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness: Identifies and discriminates between separate syllables in words.
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts and Conventions: Recognizes print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, one’s name, words, and familiar logos and signs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Greeting Song: “Clap a Friend’s Name” #3
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ELA Focus Skills: Name Recognition, Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening
Sing “Clap a Friend’s Name” with children. Demonstrate the following steps with a volunteer.
- Hold up a name card and give that child a chance to “grow.” (stand up slowly)
- Then have her or him call out out her or his name. The whole group repeats the name as they clap out the syllables.
- After each child ask, How many times did we clap? There are <number> parts in <child's> name.
- Have child sit back down and continue holding up name cards until you have identified each child.
Clap a Friend’s Name
Clap a friend’s name
Follow me.
One clap, two claps,
Or maybe three.
Copy, copy, copy me!