- name cards
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.3.c: Recognize one’s own name and familiar common signs and labels.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversation, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts & 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/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 7: Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
Greeting Song: “Where Is?” #1
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Begin the day by singing “Where Is?” to each child.
Give each child a name card. Ask children to hold up their name card when you sing their name.
After singing the song a few times, invite children to sing along with you.
Where Is? (version A)
(sung to the tune of “Frère Jacques”)
(educator)
Where is <child’s name>?
Where is <child’s name>?
(child/ren)
Here I am. (There he/she is.)
Here I am. (There he/she is.)
(educator)
We are glad that you are with us.
So glad that you are with us.
Smile and wave.
And now sit down.