Introduction
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Introduction
To Home Telephone Numbers
I'm
so pleased to have this terrific idea kick off this section of my website.
It's from Kristina, in Phoenix, Arizona:
Teach
children their phone numbers in stages using clapping rhythm exercises.
Let's say the phone number is: 233-4448. First, practice clapping in the
patterns of the numbers: clap, clap, clap, hold, clap, clap, clap, clap.
Then add the numbers. Eventually, children are saying the numbers while
clapping the rhythm:
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Here's
another great idea from Kristen Cook, Payson Utah:
From
Stormie:
My favorite ideas for helping
children learn their phone numbers are in my "THANKSGIVING/HOME
& FAMILY" booklet (found in the "Stormie's
Stuff for Teachers" section of my website), but here are a few more related
items of interest:
Did you know that your local telephone company might have telephone equipment and other materials that they are willing to loan out to classrooms?
Phone Manners: Sit down with a toy phone and one child at a time during Free Choice Play. Have the child pretend they are at home answering the phone when it rings. What do we say when we answer the telephone?
Language: Show-N-Talk: If you can find out through parents that all the children in the class have toy telephones at home, invite them to bring them to school. During Show-N-Talk, first allow everyone a turn to show off their phones, and then allow them to choose partners for pretend phone conversations.
Following Directions Activity: My Phone Number: In advance,
cut large "telephones" from various colors of construction paper (enough for each
child to have one). During Free Choice Play, call one child at a time to
come "play a game with you." Allow him to choose the color phone he wants.
Give him an index card with his home phone number printed on it in large numbers.
Then ask him if he can find those same numbers from a pile of little number squares
(that you created in advance). After they find the matching numbers, see
if they can lay them on their paper phones in the same sequence as the numbers
on their index cards. Say their phone numbers aloud with them. Send
their "phone game" home to play with Mommy and Daddy, Grandma, etc. (You
may want to stretch this activity out over a week's time so that you aren't rushed.
This way, you can give quality moments of one-on-one attention to each child.)
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