- 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/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: “Who Are You?” #12
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ELA Focus Skills: Name Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Segmenting; Rhythm, Rhyme, and Repetition)
Sing “Who Are You?” This time, hold up a child’s name card as you sing the first line. Have that child stand, say his or her name, and clap the word parts (syllables) in the name. After you sing the last line, have the class repeat the child’s name and clap the syllables. Continue until each child has been chosen.
Who Are You?
(sung to the tune of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”)
Who, who, who are you?
Say it loud and clear. (child says name, claps name)
Listen, listen, listen, listen,
Whose name do you hear? (children repeat name, clap name)
Adaptation: If very young children have trouble clapping syllables, hold their hands and clap with them, counting as you do.