Name Cards

Using name cards is a great way to help children identify and write their names. In the image above Susie uses her friend Sinai's name card to practice writing her name. Children love to learn how to identify and write their own names, but they also enjoy learning the names of friends and family.

If you look closely in this picture you will see some examples of the children's writing on the wall. Children love to display their work!

Also on the wall is a letter we wrote and mailed. The children "wrote" (I wrote the words but they decided what we'd write, and each child signed their name) a letter to my sons and my sons wrote them back. This created wonderful conversation about letter writing and mail in general. We charted the number of days it took for the mail to be delivered from school to my house, and the number of days it took for Joey and Jack's response to get from our house to school. The kids were very excited when the letter arrived. They enjoyed looking at the post mark and stamps, and we compared the two envelopes, the dates on the envelopes, etc. It was a really meaningful experience and we had a lot of fun with it.


This is another example of name cards. These have each child's name on one side, and the first letter of their name on the other. These name cards were in the art center and the children used them as a reference when they were autographing their works of art.