- 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).
English Language Arts/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.
Mathematics/Data Collection and Analysis 15: Recognize one’s own name and familiar common signs and labels (e.g., STOP).
Greeting Song: “Here We Are Together” #7
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ELA Focus Skills: Name Recognition, Phonological Awareness (Rhythm and Repetition)
Tell children you are going to sing the song “Here We Are Together” again. Explain that this time you will hold up four different name cards each time you sing. Say, If I hold up your name card, I want you to point to your name on the name chart and say your name out loud.
Sing “Here We Are Together.” Hold up a child’s name card and look directly at him or her as you sing the name. Wait for each child to point to and call out his or her name before moving on. Invite children to sing the song with you.
Here We Are Together
(sung to the tune of “Have You Ever Seen a Lassie?”)
Here we are together,
together, together,
Here we are together,
together again.
Here’s <child’s name card> and <child’s name card>,<
and <child’s name card> and <child’s name card>.
Yes, here we are together,
together again.
Adaptation: Continue to support children who still do not recognize their names by pointing to the first letter of their name and stressing the beginning sound.