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What’s in your Name?

Do you want to be… strong, happy, kind? Write your name then you decide.

Braille Activity

  • Creativity
  • Literacy
  • Spelling
  • Writing

Level: 3

Number of players: 1

Duration: 15 min

Skills:

  • Writing for pleasure

  • Improve spelling

  • Develop vocabulary

  • Develop confidence

Using the letters of your name, write a poem to describe yourself.

Goals

To create an acrostic poem using the letters in your first name to describe yourself.
To boost self awareness, self confidence and vocabulary.

The adult prepares

  • an alphabet baseplate

  • a baseplate

The children play

1

Ask the child to write their name vertically (in a column) on the baseplate.

2

Tell them to think of a word beginning with the first letter that describes them, then write that word horizontally.
 
Encourage the child to continue with each letter in their name.

Facilitation tips

  • An acrostic poem is a poetic way to write a text. Read some examples aloud to help the children understand the process.

  • Make it a collaborative activity: player 1 writes an acrostic poem describing an animal. Player 2 reads all the words and tries to guess what animal it is.

This French boy’s name is Joao. He’s qualifying himself with Joyeux (joyful), Ok, Aveugle (blind) and Obéissant (obedient).

For this activity, you will have to write
your first name, starting at the top left
and you must write it vertically,
from top to bottom.
JOAO. Perfect.
Now that you’ve written your first name,
you’re going to have to find an adjective
that describes you and matches
to each of the first letters you wrote.
So, for example, we can say that JOAO is…
J… Joyful. Very good.
So now you write Joyful.
Very good.
So JOAO is joyful.
So the second letter is an O.
JOAO, is O… Joao is OK. Yes, very good.
So you write it down, you carry on.
A… Aveugle! (Blind)
Very good.
And the last letter?
O…. Obedient!
Very good.