MR / Schenectady, NY.Yates Arts-in-Education Magnet School.Full-Day Pre-K class; urban school.State Funded through NYS Universal Pre-K Program.Teacher and aide (African-American and Caucasian) do group readiness activity at attendance time. Teacher writes each student's name. Each student who is present points to his or her name and says the name with the class (so students can learn to recognize each others names as sight words). They then erase their own names and the group counts the left over names to see how many students are absent. .MR: AE-pkf.©Ellen B. Senisi