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Whether you're stuck inside because of weather, you just need to mix up your child's exercise routine, or you're just in need of a quick way to get your kids moving, YouTube can help. With loads of kid exercise videos on YouTube, you can create your own go-to playlist that's ready when you need it.

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​Through their marking, children are communicating their ideas, expressing their feelings, developing their imagination and creativity, and testing their hypotheses about the world, it is a truly valuable experience for young writers. For the focus of this post I am referring to the role of mark making in the development of handwriting skills and letter formation. In the early years children make marks simply for the sensory enjoyment of that smooth feeling of moving a marker across the whiteboard or the bumpy sensation of chalk grating across the tarmac, or simply the visual sadifaction of coloured paint dripping down the page. All these experiences are building their confidence and dexterity as well as the fine motor skills needed for compedent use of writing tools.

Mark making and drawing is a fundamental step towards readiness to write letters. As soon as a child realises that their drawings and marking can communicate a message and generate a response from a reader, all of a sudden this skill has added value. So naturally, when children realise that the letter sounds they have been learning can be visualized by a written symbol they begin to intuitively scribe letter like images by exploring different shapes and movements using tools. I like to allow children time to continue exploring this new understanding of written work outside of a formal context during the first half of Junior Infants. They can learn to build confidence and have fun writing informally.

Be mindful of overwhelming children with too much new information to process at one time. I have had great success following a speech to print approach as previously mentioned in my phonological awareness post. At the moment we are on step 5 of our phonological awareness journey, where their brain's speech centre is processing how to blend and segment each sound as they say the word and then later in the year we will link the familiar sound to it's letter symbol, name and written formation. In my experience being a Deis 1 school, many of the children who arrive in Junior infants have not yet have grasped many important pre-reading and pre-writing skills, so this timeframe works well for me.

Expecting a child to incorporate the many different rules involved in handwriting, such as writing on lines, repeatitive tracing of letters while following complexted patterens involved in correct formation before a child has the muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, or can even hold a pencil correctly is unfair, it could be setting them up to fail or at least forcing them to take the hardest route. Learning to write shouldn't be unpleasant or difficult for a child or a teacher. Further more, bad habits could be formed by being forced to form letters before they are ready, as a child who finds it difficult to follow the rules will often take the easiest route to form a letter, and if that means drawing an 'o' and adding a flick to make an letter 'a' then that is exactly what they're going to do.

Ask yourself... what's the rush? Even the most able child will be happy to explore and develop their early writing skills through mark-making and fine motor activities. That is my experience but of course all children are different and you will follow a timeframe that suits the children you teach. ​Just as with the phonological awareness, there are progression steps to handwriting which are laid out clearly in the new language curriculum, only one learning outcome refers explicitly to handwriting. Each child will develop according to their fine motor ability. ​

Above are the progression steps outlined in the New Language curriculum. If you were to look at them over a two year progression scale I would aim for a-c in Junior Infants and c-e in Senior Infants.

So, my focus for September to January is Milestone a and b above. I have written previously about building fine motor skills, correcting pencil grip and below I will share ideas on mark-making activities. Plenty to get children really ready to write I think! Don't forget holding off on formal letter formation allows all the time that is needed to focus on phonological awareness before print!

Get yourself a mark making trolly with all the necessaries to make fun mark making any time, any where! My children love to explore mark making and drawing when ever they get the opportunity which is often throughout the day, and as much as they want during Aistear play.

​Encourage children to use resources flexibly, and don't be alarmed when children choose to move resources from one area to another or decide to combine different types of medium, as this is a valuable part of the creative experience. A mark making trolley/shelf allows children to move their tools as they require for their work.

Inside playful experiences that encourage mark making and writing

Registers - self-registration marks

Diaries and calendars - recording significant events

Telephone/address book - recording phone numbers and addresses

Cooking - writing recipes and ingredients, providing scales, clocks and timers to record weight, volume and time

Dance - making marks to music, ribbons on sticks

Office - taking messages, signing in or out

Art area - collages, painting, glueing, using clay

Quiet area - pads, paper and pens to record feelings

Graphics area - different types of paper, diaries, letters, envelopes and stamps, postcards, invitations, tickets, maps, plus opportunities for recording counting, measuring, calculating and quantities

Recording measurements in big block area

Music area - recording the beat, length of sounds ( have an old keyboard that the children can listen to using headphones)

White boards in group areas - registration, names, recording counting and calculations

Role-play area, e.g. shoe shop - filling in slips and order forms, shoe sizes on boxes

Small world area - drawing maps, roads, homes, directions

Outside playful experiences when the weather allows!

A range of writing tools of different thicknesses - multicoloured pens, markers, crayons, writing pencils, coloured pencils, felt tip pens, gel pens and biros (Mr Price, Deals, Ikea)

Pencil sharpeners

Stampers and ink pads Staplers

Hole punchers (keep an eye in Lidl)

A range of fixing materials - sticky tape, glue sticks, stapler, paper clips, paper fasteners, treasury tags, masking tape, string, wool to make knots

Rulers and scissors Clay tools

A range of paints including watercolours, inks and dyes, gouache, block, powder and poster paint - and palettes to give children opportunities to mix their own colours (paper plates, egg cartons, recycled junk containers)

A range of brushes of varying sizes (big, small, fat, thin, square-tipped or pointed) and painting implements including rollers, sponges, stamps

Examples of environmental print - notes, timetables, adverts, leaflets, junk mail

Message and display boards/communication pockets (at child height for children to use independently)

Clipboards, whiteboards and blackboards (a range of sizes, both fixed and portable) Name cards and number lines

Big chalks on ground or walls

Mud and twigs of different lengths and sizes

Sensory play - making marks on builders trays in different textures

Playhouse with pads, paper, books

Gazebo - clipboards and paper, envelopes

Fabric sheets - with mud, sticks different lengths and widths

Maps - huge sheets, fat felt pens

Spray painting - water sprayers

Picnic table covered in large sheets of paper

Buckets of water and a range of tools, including paint brushes, rollers, artists' brushes, sponges and dish mops

Chunky chalks

Blackboards and whiteboards and assorted chalks, paints, felt and dry wipe pens

Large rolls of wallpaper or lining paper

Clipboards - with writing tools attached

Portable writing toolkit - filled with resources such as sticky notes, masking tape, selection of pens and pencils, selection of paper and envelopes

Resources and equipment Paper

Unlined paper - assorted sizes, shapes, colours, textures and types Cardboard - assorted colours, textures and thickness

Rolls of paper (Ikea)/old wall paper rolls/ fabric books

Music paper, graph paper, lined, plain

Pads, notebooks, envelopes (used and unused), stamps (used, real)

Sticky notes and labels

Address books, diaries, registers, spiral-bound notebooks

Role-play area

Pots of pens and pencils Diary or calendar Calculator

Notebook

Sticky notes and sticky labels

Forms and junk mail

Variety of paper, envelopes, postcards and greetings cards

Noticeboard

Phones - mobile and landline (non-functional and toy) - and phone book/address book

Construction and Junk art area

Paper - large rolls and sheets to support planning and designing

Range of pens and pencils

Clipboards

Plans and diagrams

Noticeboard

DIY catalogues and order forms Notebooks

Sand/Soils Area

Range of plastic grouting tools

Lolly sticks

Twigs

Feathers

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Lot's of colouring in the early days offer an intense workout for little hands and fingers. Teaching children how to use their tools in different ways is important. Putting a crayon on its side to shade. Making prints with markers. Teach children how different marks will help them to keep control of their colouring when trying to keep their colouring inside the lines. ​

I love teaching children to draw. It involves all the skills that will make them great hand-writers when the time comes. It is the perfect way to develop hand-eye coordination and observation skills. The human form is the perfect drawing to tackle first. I always tell the children to look at the shapes when trying to draw anything, a basic skills used by all artists.

Every month I draw a selection of simple drawings to link in with our topic. This helps the children to draw and communicate in their writing activities. We draw them all the time. Adding simple drawing to a dice makes a fun mark making activity. Learning to draw really builds their confidence more than anything, which will make learning to write all the more achievable for little learners!

Sensory writing - copying patterns in sand, rice, salt trays - colour it with food colouring if you like

Gel bags

Sand paper patterns - I might stick the sand paper letter of the day up as a secret password at the bin or outside the toilets to use BEFORE they go in.

While I do not teach formal letter formation at this stage I do teach the foundations of print e.g. moving across the page left to right, top to bottom. As well as the language I will regularly use when I do teach letter formation e.g. curved lines, straight lines, tall, short marks etc.

I teach lots of drawing awareness, looking for shapes to help us make our drawing better. The body is a good one to start with. Followed by simple drawings that fit into each topic. This improves their hand eye coordination that they will need when writing letters.

Finger painting/tracing pre-pattern tracing

My pattern lessons are as formal as a writing lesson gets in my junior infant class in the first half of the year. I mainly use my copy for these activities as it saves paper and offers a perfect assessment folder. For more ideas on pattern lesson check out the ﻿ NCCA's Support Material﻿ .

Mini Pattern Lesson
I Do: On the board I draw the same patterns as in their copy. They observe. How did I hold my marker? Where did I start making a mark? What shapes did they see in my patterns?
We Do: Together we look at our copies. Why is there a little arrow there? (starting point: left-right, top-bottom orientation) Hold your magic pen (Peter Pointer & Tommy Thumb holds the invisible pen) let's trace together. How did your fingers, wrist, arm move? (Body awareness) What way did your magic pen move? (curved, straight, tall, short, slanted, sharp turn down etc, all the language I will use when teaching letter formation after Christmas)
You Do: Chairs in, back straight, page slightly slanted, one hand holding page steady, correct pencil grip (following one step instructions)they trace patterns in their copy.

Bring pattern into their play during Aistear or as an early finisher's exercise. Draw some shapes and have the children decorate them by filling them with patterns.

​So when are they ready to form letters? After months of working on mark making, building confidence with their writing tools, perfect pencil grip by everyone, great hand eye coordination, good drawing skills, I know that all the children (bar the exception of child who might have specific needs) are ready to write letters with little difficulty and less stress. I do this simple assessment with my children when they arrive in Junior Infants and just before I'm going to start formal letter formation. Children should be able to write these 9 pre-writing strokes well 3 times each before asking them to write. Download your free Writing Readiness Assessment here.

This post will be followed shortly by one on strategies for formal teaching of letter formation in the infant years, so make sure you follow me on Facebook to be sure to read it first! I hope you enjoyed this post and will be able to bring something back to your own classroom. I love to hear what works in your classroom in the comments section below. Subscribe to Infant Education Blog here.

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Let's Compare is an interactive comparison game which focuses on the comparative vocabulary of biggest, smallest, shortest, longest and tallest.

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Shape Patterns is a sequencing game where you need to complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. It is a multiple choice game with three levels of difficulty. It is excellent for shape recognition and for problem solving.

In the easier levels you need to continue the pattern, but in the more challenging level 3, you are presented with a sequence with the missing element in different positions. This level in particular, is an excellent problem solving activity.

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Our Chinese Dragon Game is designed to fit into a Chinese New Year topic. It is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme. Check out our Chinese New Year teaching resources and activities.

This maths game has different levels which can be matched to mathematical ability level.

The drag and drop activities help children to order numbers, beginning at a basic level and progressing to more challenging exercises ordering decimal and negative numbers. The sequencing activities help children to recognise number sequences and reinforce their knowledge of multiples.

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4-8 Years

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Maths Shapes Symmetry

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Symmetry Matching - Reflective Symmetry Game

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Symmetry Matching is a maths game where children complete an image by adding its mirror image along a line of symmetry. It includes matching objects, shapes and patterns. Tablet-friendly.

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Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.

The challenge is to use the numbers available and the four standard operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target.

Start by choosing any six cards. The top row always contains the numbers 25, 50, 75 and 100, and the bottom row contains the numbers 1 to 10. Alternatively you could click on "Quickstart". Then click on "Generate new target" and the computer will choose a target.

You can only use each card once in your solution, and it is always possible to find a solution.

You may like to explore different levels of the game using the Settings menu (the purple cog).

Once you've had a go, click on "Show solutions" to show some possible ways in which the target can be reached.

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Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.

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Multiplication

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Test yourself on any of the multiplication facts in the times tables on Multiplication.com. Answer the questions at your own pace and see how you did at the end of the quiz.