MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/
SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Greeting Song: “Where Is?” #8
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ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Name Recognition
Sing “Where Is?” to children to start the day.
Today, have children sing their own name. Demonstrate by singing the first verse alone.
- Point to yourself and sing, Here is <your name> / Here is <your name.> / Here I am. / Here I am.
- Then have children sing the rest of the song with you.
Encourage children to take turns starting the verse. If a child is uncomfortable starting the verse and singing alone, then have everyone sing it together to that child.
Where Is?
(sung to the tune of “Frère Jacques”)
(educator)
Where is <child’s name>?
Where is <same child’s name>?
(child/ren)
Here I am.
Here I am.
(educator/children)
We’re glad that you are with us,
So glad that you are with us,
Smile and wave.
And now sit down.