Writing - Chalk Boards

Today one of the writing groups were very busy learning how to form two of the Casey shapes from the story we are reading. We were learning how to form a tall stick and a short stick. Both of these "shapes" are in a large amount of letters that we write such as the letter T, it has a tall stick and a twig. The children were learning the correct place to starting writing their shape - from the top down and that their shape needed to sit on the line, not under and not above. As the photos show the tall stick goes all the way down to the line and the short stick sits underneath the broken branch to the line. A short stick features in a lot of letters such as a,r,n and m.
 Once mastered this tricky concept of the right place for our shapes to be the beams on the children's faces say it all. If you would like to know more about the writing program at Arahoe Primary please click on the Writing page tab at the top of the blog. This will give you a detailed description of what the writing program is about.
I wonder what shape we will learn tomorrow....