How I got my name

So at the beginning of the school year, we read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. We talk about our names and how they have meanings. As a homework assignment, the students have to find out how they got their name. The kids love it! They think it is so cool to share with the class. Also, it helps them feel important and like their name means something. After that, we do an art project where they get to decorate their name with tissue paper. When they are done, we hang it in the hallway with a types up version of where their name came from. We have them hanging up outside our doors for open house. Here are this year's. 

It's a cool idea and they can put the tissue paper on while you are doing beginning of the year assessing. I leave them up for awhile until I have something want to replace them with.