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).
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: “Clapping All Our Names” #1
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Segmenting, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition)
Gather children in a circle. Sing “Clapping All Our Names.” Tell children you are going to clap the parts of their names and you want them to join you. Say, Now let’s clap our names together. Listen carefully and clap when I do. First say your name slowly in its natural rhythm, then say your name and clap each syllable as you do. For example, say, Miss Peterson. Then say, Miss Pe-ter-son, clapping as you say each part.
Together, practice clapping each child’s name. Sing the song again, then go around the circle and clap each child’s name once more. Invite those who can clap their names to join you and clap along.
Clapping All Our Names
sung to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”)
We can play a listening game,
Clapping, clapping, all our names.
Clapping, clapping, fast and slow,
Ready, set, now here we go.
Everybody clap with me,
Clap the name parts carefully.