Do you know of a creative way for preschooler's to practice writing/IDing their name for the Halloween season?

Answer 1

For name recognition I use an apple tree. You can substitute the apple tree for any season theme that you want. For halloween you could do a pumpkin patch, a bats cave, halloween treat bag.

Take a large bag fold it the way it naturally folds. Then laminate as you will be using it over and over. Find cut outs of candy or make your own. On each cut out put a child's name and laminate each name. Put the bag on a wall low so that the children can reach. Do this close to the entrance. Put velcro or tacky gum on the backs of each name. When the children arrive each morning have them find their candy and put it on the bag. Before they leave each day encourage them to find their name and take it off the bag. I use a big apple tree. They find their apple every morning and put it on the tree. When they leave they put their apple in the basket. I've found this to be a very effective way to reinforce name recognition and also recognition of their friend's name. I just did an assessment today with my students and found that most of my students not only recognize their own name but also recognize the names of other students and can point out the names around the room.

For writing. I simply provide a free writing center. In the center I provide fat pencils, skinny pencils, lined paper, and unlined paper. On the table I have the alphabet in d'nealion capital and small letters, numbers, and each child has a journal with their name written and paper inside for them to try and write their name if they want. If you wanted to make this theme specific simply make a journal with pumpkins on it.

As the year progresses I replace my apple tree with a sign in area. when the children arrive they will try to sign their names in the class book.

Answer 2

Boys: a million. Autumnus 2. Boggart 3. Bogie 4. Bram 5. Casper 6. Cerberus 7. Damon 8. Draco 9. Draven 10. Faunus 11. Frankenstein, Frank 12. Igor 13. Grim, Grimm, Grimoire 14. Jack (-o-lantern) 15. Leviathan sixteen. Lugosi 17. Lycan 18. Magus 19. Nosferatu 20. October 21. Oberon 22. Obsidian 23. Orlok 24. Orpheus 25. Phantom 26. Scorpio 27. Specter 28. Tamlin 29. Vlad 30. Wolf, Wolfric, Wolfram, Wolfgang females: a million. Aisling (skill "dream" or "imaginative and prescient") 2. Arachne 3. Autumn 4. Banshee 5. Belladonna (aka deadly Nightshade) 6. Catherine "Cat" 7. Chrysanthemum 8. Desdemona 9. Ebony 10. Elphaba 11. Elvira 12. Eve, night 13. Faline 14. Fawna 15. Faye sixteen. Fortuna 17. Gypsy 18. Lilith 19. Lorelei 20. Luna 21. Medusa 22. Melusine 23. Minerva 24. Morgana 25. Nebula 26. Persephone 27. Pomona 28. Raven 29. Scarlet 30. Senka (skill "shadow") 31. Shadow 32. Skula 33. Sybil 34. Twila 35. Witch Hazel, Hazel Uni-intercourse: a million. Alchemy 2. Amulet 3. Boo 4. Briar 5. pink 6. nightfall/Dusky 7. Harvest 8. Jett 9. Jinx 10. Lovecraft 11. Mage 12. Onyx 13. Oracle 14. Poe 15. Pumpkin sixteen. Rune (Adelrune for a woman is rather candy too) 17. Salem 18. Siren 19. Talisman 20. Thorn 21. Wiccan 22. Wraith My favorites are Bram, Jack, Leviathan, Orpheus, Belladonna, Ebony, Elvira, Faline, Faye, Lilith, Lorelei, Morgana, Persephone, Senka, Sybil, Twila, Witch Hazel, Boo, Rune, and Salem. My husband loves Shadow for a woman. I joked that if we had a Halloween toddler shall we call her Shadow Elvira, yet i could call her Boo.

Answer 3

The most obvious way is to practice writing on cutouts of bats, pumpkins, etc. In fact, you can make a mobile of shapes, and on one they can write their name, their favorite candy, favorite costume, things like that.

There's a book series called The Teacher's Friend that has a different book for each month with activities, shapes, calendars, important days, crafts and activities, and lots of neat things to try.

Answer 4

I've used shaving cream and recommend that...plus the table will smell great after! Chocolate pudding sounds good...but is a breeding ground for germs.

You could add metallic black and orange glitter to the shaving cream to make it halloween-ish!

Answer 5

I taught preschool for 18 years and one thing we did that the kids always loved was to spread the table with chocolate pudding ( they could write in it and then lick their fingers) ... or shaving cream ...