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Name Practice

Although we do a lot of fine motor practice in our classroom, the biggest writing project of the year is getting each student to write their first name before heading to kindergarten. For the beginning half of the year, the students find their name card as they enter the classroom. For the remaining half of the year, they write their name on an attendace form when they arrive. Througout the year, we have name practice atleast once a week. There are many different activities we do to practice our names.
 I place each child's name in a clear sleeve so we can work with it multiple times without remaking the sheets. We trace our names with dry erase markers.
 We cover our names with mini erasers, buttons, pom poms or other small items.
 We build our names with letter tiles and rainbow write where we write our names three times on top of each other with three different colors.


 We look at our names and copy them underneath or trace on the highlighted name the teacher gives us.
 We create our names with matching objects from our theme, such as train cars or snowmen.
 We trace our names with pencils, crayons, markers or our fingers.

 Sometimes we match the letters in our names.
We build our names with blocks or Legos.
 Other fun activities include driving cars on our names,
 placing stickers or wiki sticks on our names. Sometimes we add materials like paint, shaving cream or sand.

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