Learning Names at the Beginning of the New School Year

I am a slow but persistent learner when it comes to names. This year I asked my students to use a sticky note and put it on their desk with their name. When I’m walking around I use their names as often as I can. Then at the end of the lesson, I asked them to put their sticky note on the wall near the door.

Then the next lesson they take down their name to use again on their desk.

In between lessons, I’ve been using the wall of names as a self-test. I ask myself which class someone is from, or interrogate myself to say something about them. So far, so good.

I teach one pair of siblings and the older sister found her brother’s name and decided to put it really high up the wall where she thought he couldn’t reach it. Ha!

Do you find learning names easy? Do you have some tricks to share?