Week 1

This week we have continued our work on making horizontal and vertical lines. We have then added in the pre-writing skills of drawing circles and crosses. You can see some of our amazing mark making in the pictures below. 

This week your child has been given a pre-writing pack in their purple book bag. This is for them to practice with at home. Please post any work your child does on Dojo- we would love to see how they are getting on!

Week 2

In week 2, the children will work on their pre-writing shapes on a morning when they come into school before registration.  In our writing lessons, we will continue to warm up our finger muscles and shoulder muscles in dough disco and with various exercises. 

Pre-writing shapes

Week 3 and 4

Over the next two weeks we will work on the pre-writing shapes below. 

We have also started to discuss ensuring the children get the correct pencil grip to help them to write accurately. Please see the poster below that we refer to every time the children pick up a pencil to write. 

Pre-writing shapes

How to get the correct pencil grip

Week 5 - 7
 

As the children have done so well with their pre-writing shapes in school and at home, it is time to move onto writing recognisable numbers.

We will be using our number formation booklets to support us when writing numerals 1-5 during the last 3 weeks of this half term.