- 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: “Look Who Came to School Today” #1
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ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Name Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm and Repetition)
Give children their name cards. Then tell children you are going to sing a new song today called “Look Who Came to School Today.” Say, When you hear me sing your name, I want you to hold up your name card.
Then explain that the group will sing that child’s name when you raise both your hands. Say, Then we will all sing the last line together: “We’re so glad she/he did.”
Repeat until all children have been recognized.
Look Who Came to School Today
(sung to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)
Look who came to school today,
School today,
School today.
Look who came to school today,
Let’s all say hello.
<Child’s name> came to school today,
School today,
School today.
<Child’s name> came to school today, (educator raises both hands; all children sing)
We’re so glad she/he did.