Presented by Andrea Ford and Carolynn Masson
Ready for Learning
Key foundation skills necessary
Hearing
Speaking
Seeing
Moving
Key Competencies
Developing Automaticity
So not taking up any space in their brain
Cognitive overload can happen when children have not developed automaticity in their foundation skills
Moving
Fine motor skills
Lots of opportunities- playdough, ripping
Gross motor skills-crossing midline, jumping, balancing, skipping, hopping
Balance- core stability- important for learning
Crossing Midline- zip up school bags, putting shoes on
Tripod hold
Palmar grip
Deliberately teach how to hold a pencil
Change before 7 to hold a pencil otherwise it will be permanent
Crossing midline activities- drawing figure 8 with one hand, obstacle course, hopscotch, playing at the playground, cutting with scissors, threading
Speaking
Modeling by a child who has good oral language
Feeding the language that the children need when talking
Learning through a play environment provides great opportunities to develop oral language
Refer to the book
Hearing
Being able to hear environmental sounds around them is important before learning phonics
Rhyming, hearing the rhythm, being read to in the classroom and home
Working memory
3 instructions and being able to follow them
Movement video-Go noodles, Picking up objects, naming them, rhyming activities
Seeing
Visual discriminations - being able to discriminate visuals
Visual memory- hold an image and know what the difference is
What the children can discriminate or not
Puzzles, dominos, matching objects, making patterns
How often we expose print to the children
Concepts of print-explicit teaching- reading to the children, children were understanding the importance of this
Read and feed - reading while the children are eating
Connecting to key competencies-- teaching sharing, kindness, eye spy
NZ Key Competencies
Managing self and Relating to others
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