 In the beginning of a new school year, it is important for the teachers to learn the names of the students quite quickly. One way I like to do this is through song. It helps me and it helps the students remember their new classmates. So the song is a good morning song and I like to teach rhythm and I like to teach names with the students and it's okay. Sometimes I have them wear name tags in the first few days just to help me a little bit. But each song they'll sit in a circle and each time I will sing their name as I go around the song singing good morning to my friends. So it goes like this and I like to do knees and then clap. It goes kind of like this. Good morning, good morning, good morning to you, good morning, good morning, good morning to you, the day is beginning, there's so much to do, good morning, good morning, good morning to you, good morning, good morning, good morning to see you. And what you do is you just go around your whole circle, you sing good morning and you use each person's name and then you also remember to sing that I am happy to see you after every two or three names. This is one way that kids feel welcome and that I get to remember their names a little bit faster.