Preparing for School Learning

Three Key Areas

1. Holding the crayon and, eventually, the pencil correctly
2. Learning the sounds of the alphabet and beginning to learn to read
3. Learning to form the letters correctly – there are two main types of letters
   1. the round letters – they go round in an anticlockwise direction
   2. the stick letters – using a ‘down, up and over’ movement

Forming the letters in the right way is a terrifically important process that can take couple of years to fully master with a lot of short learning bursts, whenever the child uses a crayon or pencil.