Mrs. Drake's Classroom

Names

After reading Chrysanthemum we cut apart our names then glued them on a sentence strip. We counted the letters in our name and graphed them.	Forming letters and writing our names in shaving cream was a wonderful tactile experience that left our classroom smelling like a "handsome man."
Used pocket chart to match our pictures to our names and begin to learn to recognize our friends names too.	Our Blue Ribbon names! Some close-ups below
WQe used our pocket chart to play "Who Stole the Cookies From the Cookie Jar" continuing to recognize our friends names.	Crayon Rubbings Each name was preprogrammed on a strip of felt using fabric paint. We found our felt name then placed paper on top. We used a crayon with the paper removed to rub the paper and watch our name magically appear!
	Each child has a baggie that has his/her name written in marker on outside. Inside are individual bottle caps preprogrammed with each letter of his/her name. Here he is arranging the letters to spell his name.
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