- 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: “Clapping All Our Names” #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Segmenting)
Tell children you are going to sing “Clapping All Our Names” again today. Explain that this time you will change the words in the last line and sing “Clap your name parts carefully.” Say, If I hold up your name card, then you clap your name parts as you say your name out loud.
Hold up one child’s name card. Say, If this is your name, clap your name parts. Continue around the circle, singing and holding up name cards until each child has been acknowledged.
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 your name parts carefully.
Adaptation: Add photos or stickers to help very young children recognize their name cards.