Preschool Reading:

Putting a Face With a Name

 

Today's Snack: Everybody loves face sandwiches. You can put a round piece of bologna on a piece of bread, use carrot disks for eyes, a piece of broccoli for the nose, a curve of red pepper for the smile, and blobs of mayonnaise for a big, white moustache. For a beverage, name your flavor - white, chocolate or strawberry milk.

 

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Supplies:

Blank index cards

Photos of the children in the class, or people the child knows

 

 

Kids always learn to read and write names first. Here's a way to help them learn more names than just their own, and have fun matching printed names with the photos of familiar faces.

 

You will need a photo of each child in the preschool class, or, if you're working at home, you can use photos of the child's relatives, friends, neighbors, important people the child knows by name such as the mail carrier and the grocery bagger, etc. etc.

 

You can photocopy a photograph if people don't want their family photos used for this purpose, or take and print out digital pictures yourself.

 

All you do is write people's names on the blank index cards and lay them in no particular order on a table or desk along with a photograph or photocopy of that person's "mugshot." A "mugshot" is simply a head and shoulders photo, to show the face close-up.

 

Now let the children match the printed names with the faces, and pronounce the names aloud.