Letter Tracing · 2014. 7. 13. · Letter Tracing Letter tracing is a great way for children to practise writing their letters and sounds. Letter tracing sheets are laminated allowing

Letter Tracing

Letter tracing is a great way for children to practise writing their letters and

sounds. Letter tracing sheets are laminated allowing children to draw on them

with a white board marker and wipe it away easily with a tissue. Children can

practise writing their letters correctly and wipe it away and try again.

Letter tracing also allows children to develop their fine motor skills and hand

eye coordination. It helps encourage children to develop the use of the tripod

grip, a grasp pattern for holding a writing tool such as a pencil.

Resources: Kept in Phonics drawers in over 2’s classroom.

Through this activity we encourage children to achieve the following Early Years

Foundation Stage learning goals:

Characteristics of Effective Learning

PE10 Seeking challenge

PE11 Showing a ‘can do’ attitude

AL1 Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time

AL3 Not easily distracted

AL4 Paying attention to detail

AL5 Persisting with activity when challenges occur

AL7 Bouncing back after difficulties

AL9 Being proud of how they accomplished something –not just the end

result

AL10 Enjoying meeting challenges for their own sake rather than

external rewards or praise

CTC2 Finding ways to solve problems

CTC8 Planning, making decisions about how to approach a task, solve a

problem and reach a goal

CTC9 Checking how well their activities are going

CTC10 Changing strategy as needed

CTC11 Reviewing how well the approach worked

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

MR14 Plays cooperatively with a familiar adult

MR16 Seeks out others to share experiences

SS9 Demonstrates sense of self as an individual

SS13 Welcomes and values praise for what they have done

SS17 Shows confidence in asking adults for help

SS19 Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities

Communication and Language

LA14 Rigid attention –may appear not to hear

LA18 Single channelled attention. Can shift to a different task if

attention is fully obtained –Using child’s name helps focus.

LA22 Focusing attention –still listen or do, but can shift own attention

LA23 Is able to follow directions

LA24 Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during

appropriate activity

LA25 Two- channelled attention –can listen and do for a short period of

time

U7 Understand simple sentences

U9 Understands more complex sentences

U14 Responds to simple instructions

S21 Uses simple sentences

Physical Development

MH30 Beginning to use three fingers (tripod grip) to hold writing tools, or

in this case using the tripod grip while threading beads.

MH33 May be beginning to show preference for a dominant hand.

MH41 Uses one- handed tools and equipment

MH42 Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-

hand grasp

MH43 Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and

uses it with good control

MH51 Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely

and with increasing control. e.g. manages own buttons and zip, interlocking

bricks, threads and beads.

MH52 Shows a preference for a dominant hand

Literacy

R26/ W9 Links sounds and letters, naming and sounding the letters of

the alphabet

Early Learning Goals:

Children show good control and co-ordination in small movements.

SORTING COLOURS WITH BOTTLE TOPS

Sorting colours with bottle tops encourages children to place and sort coloured

bottle tops onto the matching colour paper plate. This activity encourages and

promotes discussions about different shades of colour such as light green and

dark green; and also allows children to talk about the things around us that is

made of that colour. It also allows children to count how many bottle tops they

have categorised on each plate and use language between quantities.

Sorting Coloured Bottle Tops promotes:

Language skills: naming, labelling and discussions about what objects are

made of certain colours.

Reinforces and extends learning about colours.

Fine motor development and eye hand coordination.

Children can be encouraged to count how many bottle tops they have on

each plate. Which plates have more or less?







AL4 Paying attention to details

AL5 Persisting with the activity when challenges occur


result


Personal Social and Emotional Development

MR12 Plays alongside others






S14 Beginning to ask simple questions


S23 Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts

Mathematics

N8 Recites some number names in sequence

N10 Begins to make comparison between quantities e.g. ‘more’ or ‘lots’

N11 Uses some language of quantities

N18 Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly

N28 Counts up to three or four objects by saying one number name for

each of them

SSM9 Beginning to categorise objects according to properties such as

shape or size

Shelby’s Snack Shack Game -‘A counting bone-anza!’

Shelby’s Snack Shack Game helps to develop number and counting skills, and

promotes fine motor skills using one handed tools.

Resources: The Shelby’s Snack Shack Game is kept on top of the mathamatical

cupboard in the over 2’s classroom.



Characteristics of effective learning





AL5 Persisting with activity when challenges occur


result

CTC2 Finding ways to solve problems.


MR12 Plays alongside others.

MR14 Plays cooperatively with a familiar adult.

MR21 Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing.

MFB12 Responds to a few appropriate boundaries, with encouragement

and support



LA24 Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during

appropriate activity

U7 Understand simple sentences






MH33 May be beginning to show preference for a dominant hand

MH41 Uses one- handed tools and equipment

Mathematics

N8 Recites some number names in sequence

N10 Begins to make comparison between quantities e.g. ‘more’ or ‘lots’

N11 Uses some language of quantities

N13 Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.

N14 Uses some number names accurately in play

N15 Recites numbers in order to 10

N18 Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly

N19 Shows curiosity about numbers by offering comments or asking

questions

N28 Counts up to three or four objects by saying one number name for

each of them

N21 Shows an interest in number problems

Early Learning Goals

Children playing co-operatively, taking turns with others. They take into

account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity.

Children work in groups and understand the need for behaviour rules.

Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Children can work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow

the rules.

Big Lifeboat Puzzle

From early childhood right through to adulthood we love to play with puzzles!

We like the way they challenge our thinking and exercise our minds.

Puzzles are an important educational learning tool for children as they provide

many skills, mental learning benefits and opportunities.

Resources: The big lifeboat puzzle is kept on top of the mathematical cupboard

in the over 2’s classroom.








AL4 Paying attention to details

AL5 Persisting with activity when challenge occur

AL9 Being proud they accomplished something –not just the end result

AL10 Enjoying meeting challenges for their own sake rather than

external rewards or praise


CTC9 Checking how well their activity is going


MR12 Plays alongside others







MH33 May be beginning to show preference for a dominant hand

Mathematics

SSM3 Attempts sometimes successfully, to fit shapes into spaces on

inset boards or jigsaw puzzles

Sand Painting

Sand painting is an art experience that encourages children to explore and

create with a different kind of media and allows them to experiment with

colours and marks.




PE2 Uses senses to explore the world around them

PE3 Engages in an open- ended activity

AL1Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time


CTC1 Thinking of idea

CTC3 Finding new ways to do things

Personal Social and Emotional

MR12 Plays alongside other children


MR16 Seeking out others to share experiences


SS17 Shows confidence in asking for adults

MFB9 Beginning to understand ‘yes’, ‘no’ and some boundaries


and support



U7 Understands simple sentences



S12 Beginning to put two words together

S14 Beginning to ask simple sentences



MH23 Makes connections between their movement and the different

marks they make

Expressive Arts and Design

EUMM5 Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements

which leave marks

EUMM9 Experiments with blocks, colours and marks

EUMM16 Explores colour and how colours can be changed

EUMM18 Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of

things

EUMM25 Explores what happens when they mix colours

Shell printing

Shell printing is a simple art experience that encourages children to explore and

create with a different kind of media and allows them to experiment with

colours and marks.




PE2 Uses senses to explore the world around them

PE3 Engages in an open- ended activity

AL1Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time


CTC1 Thinking of idea

CTC3 Finding new ways to do things

Personal Social and Emotional

MR12 Plays alongside other children


MR16 Seeking out others to share experiences


SS17 Shows confidence in asking for adults

MFB9 Beginning to understand ‘yes’, ‘no’ and some boundaries


and support



U7 Understands simple sentences



S12 Beginning to put two words together

S14 Beginning to ask simple sentences



MH23 Makes connections between their movement and the different

marks they make

Expressive Arts and Design

EUMM5 Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements

which leave marks

EUMM9 Experiments with blocks, colours and marks

EUMM16 Explores colour and how colours can be changed

EUMM18 Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of

things

EUMM25 Explores what happens when they mix colours

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Letter Tracing · 2014. 7. 13. · Letter Tracing Letter tracing is a great way for children to practise writing their letters and sounds. Letter tracing sheets are laminated allowing