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Students play various games to help create a classroom community. For this name recognition lesson, students combine their name recognition skills with newly learned art and geometric vocabulary. First students discover vocabulary that they can use to describe the direction and shape of lines within the letters of their name, then they practice identifying the different types of lines that make up the letters in their classmates' names.

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the alphabet, shapes

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community building lesson, descriptive vocabulary, letter recognition, name memorization, shape recognition, math
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Grade
Pre-K - 1st
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning
Year
2008
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