Letter Writing Automaticity

Letter Writing Automaticity ~ Remote Learning

Today marks the last day of week two, and I did something a little different this morning with my leareners through our class site. I recorded myself teaching but instead of introducing a new letter for them to learn I was introducing them the idea of writing the letter really fast (automatically). Our goal is to be able to write the letter automatically without wasting time thinking of HOW a letter is formed.

My inquiry for this year is about 'letter and word writing automaticity". The end result that I'm hoping to achieve is for my learners to be able to write down their ideas fluently and not wasting their time in thinking of how words and letters are formed. Here is a short video clip (not the full video) of what I did. I hope this video encourages / empowers my learners to achieve the result mentioned above.  You can find the full video in our class site.

School Expectations

Our whole school focus for the first two / three weeks of this year was unpacking our school expectations.
There are five expectations that we value at our school, and every year we unpack each expectation with
our learners. 

Unpacking of these expectations in the junior classes is very long and sometimes hard. It is long because
like any other learning, teachers have to use simple language to explain the meaning of each value, and
identify real examples for each one of them. It is hard because learners needed a reminder / redirect /
rephrase each week. 

My class is still working on these expectations - we will be working on these all year. We use pictures
(of our own learners) to show what each expectation looks like in real life. As a result of using pictures,
learners could also use them to remind each other of what needed to be done as well.

I found using of our school expectations at the beginning of the year as a very good tool. It helps with
the setting of classroom norms, and classroom treaty or rules. 

A display of all the examples of each value in each classroom is proved to help minimising most
behaviour problems. 

PB4L supports Glenbrae School around this big focus / idea, and we are going to continue working
on building positive environment for our tamariki.

Transition Visits with ECE