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1 Journey to writing through motor skills

2 Reminders Uniform – tracksuit bottoms and black trainers
Book Bag – bag at school every day and please check every evening for letters, home learning etc Mornings – encourage your child to walk into the playground to be as independent as possible putting their belongs on their peg, finding their name and an activity to settle down to. Please wait in the playground not on the decking PE kits – in school everyday – t-shirt, shorts, plimsolls Library – any volunteers (preferably Tuesday pm). Festivals – please let me know of any religious festivals that your family celebrate

3 Aims This workshop aims to explain the following points:
Why are motor skills important? What do we do to help the children develop in school? How can you help at home?

4 Writing We know you would all like your child to be competent writers by the end of Reception. However, before we can expect your child to write they need to have strong muscles by developing their gross and fine motor skills and their core strength.

5 Gross Motor Skills Physical control through large scale movements
Controlled movements of the whole body Arm movements from the shoulder and full leg movements. You can help by providing opportunities for playing outside, balancing, climbing, marching, moving to music.

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7 Core Strength Of particular importance to handwriting is the development of good posture and balance through strengthening core muscles e.g. dance, football, use of small apparatus (bats and balls), cycling, gripping climbing frames, building with large scale construction kits.

8 A lot of gross skills will take place outdoors not in front of the tv or ipad! Visits to the park will strengthen these muscles

9 Fine Motor Skills The hand is a complex piece of machinery and is made up of lots of joints and muscle groups that interconnect and work together to provide maximum dexterity. We use daily physical intervention activities called Funky Fingers, which involve a series of hand and finger exercises. These strengthen and develop children’s fine motor dexterity, hand-eye co-ordination, palm and knuckle strength and pincer grip. These skills will not only help your child’s writing but skills like doing up buttons on their clothes and zipping up their coats, using cutlery

10 Pencil Control Stages of Development
These activities will help your child hold their pencil correctly

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12 Home Learning How you can help at home…
So many of our Funky Fingers activities are simply made from household equipment and items which are cheap and easy to obtain. Your child loves taking part in the activities at school and you could extend this at home by providing similar activities and by using a timer to encourage your child to have a race against you to see who could ‘thread the most pieces of pasta on to a string’, etc…

13 Home Learning For the next few weeks your child will bring home a bag with an explanation of a funky fingers activity with the necessary resources. Please spend time with your child completing the activity and possibly the challenge too. During the activity please take a photo and/or video to upload on to Tapestry. Please feel free to adapt the activity or make up your own too. We will show the Tapestry videos in class. The children absolutely adore showing themselves from home and always feel very proud of their achievements. It also improves their Speaking and Listening skills.

14 Useful Link Many of our fine motor activity ideas come from Pinterest …a site where people share good ideas (about anything and everything!) Just type in ‘fine motor activities’ or ‘Funky fingers activities’ into the search box.

15 Questions

16 Thank you for your support so far and for those of you who have logged on to Tapestry and have begun to engage with your child’s online learning journal Tapestry. It would also be so lovely to see more comments and photos being uploaded from home. The children love sharing the photos with the rest of the class during carpet time. The best way to stay up to date is to download the Tapestry app which is free. 16

17 We’d love to see your observations from home…
Please don’t feel shy about leaving comments. It’s helpful for us to know if you have viewed any of our observations, so that we know that you are aware of how you can help your child at home. At the moment, only some parents are commenting and liking their child’s photos and videos. Please try to check your Tapestry app daily. By commenting/liking we know that you have seen your child’s achievements and hopefully you can support the work we do at school at home.

18 Uploading photos onto Tapestry
Please bear with me if you are already familiar with how to upload photos. This is going to be a quick demonstration. If you are still unsure, then please ask me or one of the other parents. Step 1: Log in 18

19 Step 2: Click ‘add observation’
Once you have logged on either on your computer, smart phone or tablet, click ‘add observation’. Step 2: Click ‘add observation’ 19

20 Step 3: Click ‘add files’
You can then take photos either directly through the app or upload from your computer/phone. Step 3: Click ‘add files’ 20

21 Step 4: Select the folder where you keep your pictures
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22 Step 5: Select the picture or video and click open
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23 In the Notes section please write what your child is doing or what they have achieved.
Step 6: Click ‘start upload’ then make some comments in the ‘notes’ box. Lastly click ‘save’. 23

24 Alternatively download the app where the uploading process is much simpler…

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26 Questions

27 Funky Fingers with your child
Bring children in


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