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.Provincial curriculum links
- BC KRecognizing familiar words and names, and matching capital letters to lowercase.
- BC Grade 1Capital letters for people’s names, and legible printing.
- BC K–1Number concepts to 10 in Kindergarten and to 20 in Grade 1.
Name plates aren’t a curriculum item, but the desk plate puts two Kindergarten and Grade 1 references in front of every child: the alphabet in capitals and lowercase, and a number line from 0 to 20. That range matches BC’s Kindergarten and Grade 1 number work, so the plate doubles as a tool during math and printing.
French Immersion classes use the same 26 letters, so the alphabet strip works in either language. In Ontario’s two-year Kindergarten, the plates made in Junior Kindergarten can be reprinted for Senior Kindergarten with smaller print.
Summarized in our own words from BC English Language Arts and Mathematics (K–1).
