Over the next few months we will focus on our writing area and children’s creative writing in nursery. We are going to look at how our children currently use our writing resources and consult with them to make improvements.
We encourage our children to mark-make. Mark-making activities enable children to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas using various tools such as fingers, pens, paintbrushes, crayons – we also explore ways to mark-make with textures and other materials such as mud, sand and dough. Mark-making supports children’s fine motor skills development, encourages creativity and imagination and is a great stepping stone to writing.
Click on the link for more information and to watch a short interesting video clip –Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield describes the link between schemas, children understanding movement, their mark-making activities and learning to write. It is very interesting and worth a look! Please leave any comments below.
