Morning Group Time - Preschool & Kindergarten

Circle Time

Form a Circle by joining hands. The children take a step back until their arms are fully extended. Drop hands. Say the following poem with activity motions:

Two little hands go clap, clap, clap.
Two little feet go tap, tap, tap.
One little body turns around and around.
One little child sits quietly down!
Contributed By: Nora

Who's Here Board
Need: Craft stick (one per child) poster board with paper pockets

At the beginning of the school year, I made a poster board that says, "Who's here" and put a paper pocket for each child in the class to have one pocket. I took craft sticks and put each child's name on a craft stick. In the morning, I put the sticks on the floor in front of the board. When the children come into the classroom in the morning, they put their backpacks in their lockers, come over to the who's here board and put their name stick in a pocket, sign themselves in on the student sing in sheet, do the morning graph and go to a table activity.

They even remind their friends who have forgotten to sign in to go take care of their name sticks!
Contributed By: Michele Morris

You could also place a small paper in each pocket with the child's name. So the child has to match his/her name. Instead of craft sticks you can also use pictuers of each child with the child's name wrote on the bottom of the picture.