Spanish and French Name Tags and Activities
It’s time to go back to school! Whether I’m teaching first graders or high schoolers, I like to have my students create desktop name tags in the first class session or two. I’m very visual, so I need to see name/face to get all of those new names into the ‘ol memory. And in middle school and high school, my students often choose French names. (Oui . . . double the names to learn!)
Catherine and I at Foreign Language House have just created some printable desktop name tags to help you make this opening activity look nice and polished! We have eight different designs for each language. You can choose your favorite, or your students can choose! Card stock is ideal for allowing your name tags to stand up and stay in place on desktops. The images are B&W for ease of copying and also to allow your students to color and decorate them.
Homeschoolers, these name tags can also make nice decorations for a notebook or a bedroom door!
In the classroom, I collect the name tags after each class. Some days I pre-arrange the name tags and students need to find their tag to find their seat for the day. This way, they can meet and work with various new classmates. This also helps me to determine the best possible seating charts to start off the year.
Other days, I hold the stack of name tags in my hand, review the alphabet, and then say the letters as I read a name on a tag. When students identify the person, I pass out that name tag. Nice way to take roll, too.
Follow this link to get your desk top name tags. Hurry! This week they are absolutely FREE!
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These are great! I just posted about these and linked back to you.