Starter quiz
- True or false? It's helpful to hold your pencil in the tripod grip.
- True ✓
- False
- Which actions will help us prepare to practise handwriting?
- jumping up and down
- hopping
- hand exercises ✓
- wrist exercises ✓
- practicing writing patterns ✓
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- True or false? Numbers can be represented by a numeral.
- True ✓
- False
- Select the numeral 0.
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 0 ✓
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- Select the numeral 1.
- 3
- 0
- 5
- 1 ✓
- 2
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- Select the numeral 2.
- 0
- 4
- 3
- 2 ✓
- 1
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The numerals 0, 1, 2, 3 and 5 are formed using one contionous motion.
- The numeral 4 needs you to lift your pencil to add another line.
- A numeral is a digit which represents a number.
Common misconception
Often students will struggle with which direction to go to form the numerals 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Model clearly using physical things in the room to show which direction they will be drawing. 'To the left, towards the window' for example.
Keywords
Continuous motion - the smooth and uninterrupted motion we make when writing, without lifting our writing tool from the paper
Numeral - a symbol or character used to represent a number
Digit - refers to a single number from 0 to 9, like the digits we use when counting or writing numbers
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