the first thing preschoolers do when they arrive is find their name card. we’ve added a strip of magnet to the back and now the preschoolers match their name to their photo (except on april fool’s day when we put them on other photos…boy, that was funny).we sing through the names and figure out who is gone (we add a magnetic frame around the people gone), then taking time to wish them well.

i encourage the preschoolers to use these during work time.  some can recognize all the names already, some know them “in their heart.”