- name cards
MA Standards:
Foundational Skill: /RF.PK.MA.1.d: Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.
Head Start Outcomes:
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 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Greeting Song: “Here We Are Together” #2
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Have children sit in a circle. Explain that you are going to sing “Here We Are Together” to each one of them.
Say, I will hold up a name card and look right at you when I sing your name. When you hear your name, stand up tall.
Then explain that when a child stands up, everyone sings to that child. Repeat until every child has been acknowledged.
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>, and <child's name>,
and <child's name>, and <child's name>,
and <child's name> (etc.)
Here we are together, together (again).