- name cards (2 sets)
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).
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.
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: “Here We Are Together” #4
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ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Name Recognition, Phonological Awareness
Continue to help children recognize their names in print. Distribute name cards.
- Hold up a name card from your matching set of name cards.
- Read the name aloud and ask the child whose name you are holding to stand up. Then say, Whose name am I holding up? Guide children to respond, I am <child's name>.
- Repeat for three other children.
Explain that you are going to sing to the children standing and when they hear their name you want them to hold up their name cards. Say, Keep your name card up high until we finish singing to you.
Continue with other name cards until all children have recognized their names and have been acknowledged in song.
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 and
and and .
Yes, here we are together,
together again.
Adaptation: With younger children, you may prefer to simply have them show their name cards while you sing their names.