I teach Pre-K for Chickasha Public Schools. BWECC includes grades Pre-K through 1st. We strive to offer the best developmentally appropriate school in the area. Pre-K students are full of excitement, joy, and eagerness to learn. They are fun, lovable, courageous, innocent, and offer unconditional love. My students enter the school year completely dependent on us for everything. The transformation from the helpless little child that takes place in a year’s time is remarkable.
As their teacher and “school mom” as I like to say, it is my life’s passion to teach, nurture, and most importantly love them.
I am also entrusted with the task of teaching them the building blocks upon which they will learn to write.
Our school is primarily a low income school. Many of our students are at a disadvantage and all too often are not exposed to prior fundamentals that are crucial as a Pre-K student.
My Project
Writing in Pre-K looks very different from any other grade. The development of a child's fine motor skills are the building blocks on which they will learn to write. Early Writing is synonymous with the term emergent writing. It is one of the best predictors of of a child's later reading success.
Before a Pre-K child ever picks up a pencil, they are learning to write.
We start from day one working on fine motor development in many different ways. We use play-dough and play-dough cutting tools. We string beads on strings or pipe cleaners. We finger paint and tear paper. We introduce letter formation with sand paper, curved and straight lines, play-dough, beans, and many more hands on resources to form the letters, numbers and shapes.
As with any class, we have children that are able to write letters, however many more do not enter at that stage of development. We adjust plans to the needs of each individual child. The items that we are requesting are tools that will enhance the development of many stages of writing. The items include an organized writing station that is child friendly. It also includes many tactile letter that teach formation, stamps, play-dough letter stamps, magnet boards to help with tracing, Lego sets that will form the letters, as well as, a paper dispenser that is child friendly and a roll of blank paper for them to use. The development of fine motor skills and correct letter formation, without using a pencil or crayons, are essential in their writing development.
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