A desk plate that teaches
A name plate is a reference children look at all day: how to write their own name, how each letter looks, and where numbers sit on the number line.Ready for the first week
Make the name plates, then a class pack and name tracing pages from the same class list.CAPS links
- Grade RRecognises their own name and the names of some other children in the class.
- Grade 1Reads labels and captions around the classroom, and copies and writes their own name.
- Grade 1 mathsWrites number symbols 1 to 20, the range on the desk plate’s number line.
CAPS builds early reading on print around the child: labels on doors and cupboards, names on the register, the weather chart. A desk plate adds one more label a child reads every day, and the 0 to 20 number line covers exactly the numbers Grade 1 learners are expected to write.
In the first week of Grade R or Grade 1, use the name tags at the morning ring so children start to recognise each other’s names as well as their own.
Summarised in our own words from the DBE’s CAPS for English Home Language and for Mathematics, Foundation Phase (2011).
