Why name booklets work
A child’s own name is the word they care about most. Each page in the booklet practices it a different way: tracing builds letter formation, colouring big bubble letters builds the shape of the whole name, the maze makes them read their letters in order, and cutting and gluing makes them build it themselves.
How to use the class pack
- Paste your class list, one name per line.
- Choose the pages you want in each booklet.
- Check a booklet with the arrows, then download one PDF for the whole class.
- Print and staple each child’s pages together. They come out in order, child by child.
MATATAG links
- KinderLiteracy, Language and Communication: recognising their own given name and their classmates’ names.
- KinderWriting letters in capitals and lower case.
- KinderPhysical and motor development, with fine motor work through art: colouring, cutting and gluing.
The first theme of the MATATAG Kindergarten guide is knowing who we are and our families, so a booklet built around each child’s own name fits the opening weeks of the school year.
Many Filipino children have two given names, such as John Paul or Mary Grace, and a different nickname at home. Type the name the child will see on their notebooks and classroom labels, and keep the nickname for talk.
Summarised in our own words from DepEd’s MATATAG Kindergarten Curriculum Guide (2023).
