- 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.
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: “Where Is?” #12
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ELA Focus Skills: Name Recognition, Speaking and Listening
- Tell children you are going to hold up one name card at a time.
- Ask children to say their name if they recognize it, otherwise point to the child to prompt him or her.
Then sing “Where Is?” with children. Keep the child’s name card in the air as you sing the first two lines. Then instruct children to say, I’m here! when they see their name card.
Continue until each child’s name has been shown.
Adaptation: For younger children, you may want to use two sets of name cards. Each child’s card should have a matching sticker so children can identify their name through the sticker as they learn to associate the letters in their name.
Where Is?
(sung to the tune of “Frère Jacques”)
Where is <child’s name>?
Where is <same child’s name>?
Here I am. (child sings)
Here I am. (same child sings)
We’re glad that you are with us,
So glad that you are with us,
Smile and wave.
And now sit down.