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I am ready to start my 4th round of student of the day. I
need some ideas on activities to do with the children's
names.
Lisa Z /blockquote>

On 11/21/03, JEM wrote:
> I am ready to start my 4th round of student of the day. I
> need some ideas on activities to do with the children's
> names.

Have you introduced their last names? We've been doing name
activities with last names for the last month and my kids
love it. They thi...See More
Nov 24, 2003
deb /blockquote>

I especially like the name activities and although it is not
in the BB book or the Month by Month book, I continue to use
and expand on the name activities all year long - the kids
really love it and it is soooo meaningful to them - I truly
think that is one of the most powerful ways to teach the kids
th...See More
Nov 26, 2003
Jacque/WA/K-1 /blockquote>

I think this is where some of my best learning happens each
day....

I love how each time through sort of evolves on it's own---
from picture, name and the name of whoever is writing...to
adding words on shirts (all my kids this year know how to
recognize/read
"Yu-gi-oh", "GAP", "Batman", "Spiderm...See More
Jan 1, 2004
Marcia Goudie /blockquote>

Oh! please do tell more. I haven't done as many name
activities as I could. I teach a 3 hours program and I'm
stressing just to fit in what I could.
I had decided to do name tongue twisters because it wouldn't
take that much time, but I am open to suggestions..
Feb 1, 2004
Kathi D/CA /blockquote>

Don't think I saw this in the long post of many ideas, above.
Starting with our 4th go-around, I used letter cards to spell
their names in the pocket chart and found chunks in their names:
Jayson, the -ay chunk; Katie, the -at chunk, also changing the
letters around I made 'it' and -et chunks. Each kiddo has...See More
Feb 5, 2004


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