Children’s names are usually the first written words that they learn. From a very early age, they may be able to recognize their first letter and will often announce, “Look! There’s my E!” We can support children’s literacy development by using their interest in this most important word as a springboard for other letter learning. Most…
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Easy Name Practice Worksheets
One of the most important things that we can teach our young children is how to write their names. It makes life SO much easier if children can write them when they enter kindergarten, so that the teacher will know which paper/picture/book/project belongs to which kid. We practice every day in preschool, but making customized…
Winter Name Art
Process art is such an important part of our preschool curriculum! When children are painting, cutting, collaging, molding, and drawing their brains are getting smarter and smarter. For many people (parents?!) process art is just not quite cute enough to be fridge-worthy. I get it, really I do. (I’m a mom, too, remember! I don’t need a…
Name Books
We spend a lot of time learning to recognize, spell and write our names in preschool. I am always looking for hands-on ways that the students can practice. They love things that they can practice in class and take home, like their Name Folders. When I saw the idea for Name Books on Fun-A-Day I knew…
Alphabet Push Pins
A good preschool learning center is one that the students really want to do. It grabs their attention when they walk through the door, and the center is full of children all day. A great preschool learning center is one that helps them practice a skill (or two!) in a developmentally appropriate way. A perfect preschool learning…
Name Folders
One of our first important literacy goals in preschool is to be able to recognize and spell our first names. Younger preschoolers (3-year-olds) practice spelling their names every day at school. We use a different name game each month. Now it’s the end of the year and most of our students are able to identify…
Spelling our Names
Recently we posted some of the ways that we help our preschool students practice writing their names. Writing is not the only thing we do with names, though! Another important activity is learning to spell our names. We sing lots of songs and rhymes with our names, and these are 10 of our favorite ways to…