- 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).
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” #8
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ELA Focus Skills: 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 one name card and that child will choose another name card. Say, If I hold up your name card, say your name and then come up and choose another name card from the pile of cards. When we have four children we will sing the song.
After each round, the last child to have his or her name called pulls the first card for the next round.
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 those who do not yet recognize their names in print. Attach a sticker that begins with the same sound as the name, and prompt by pointing to the letter and saying the beginning sound.