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Fine Motor Skill Pin Pricking via Lessons Learnt Journal

Fine Motor Skills: Pin Pricking

By Pauline On March 19, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Fine Motor Skills, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Pre school, Subjects, Work, Writing
...e piece of paper. Seems like an ordinary thing, and I’m grateful that we get to have moments like that regularly, so it is very much part of our every day. Surrounding kids every day with opportunities to develop their fine motor skills helps them strengthen the hand muscles they need for fine movements. Here is a fun and engaging fine motor skill activity that is used regularly in my kindergarten classroom. It was new to me, and I love it...
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20 Fine Motor Activities

By Pauline On October 10, 2013 · 6 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Fine Motor Skills, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Play, Pre school, Primary School (9 - 12 years) Activities, Subjects, Toddler Activities, Work
...my way to the kitchen, and dancing?! Forget that! But… I am a pianist. My mother was a piano teacher and I was playing Fur Elise by the age of four. So, what I lack in gross motor skills, I thankfully make up for in my fine motor skills. I am ever mindful to encourage and foster my children’s fine motor skills because I know the impact it will have on their writing skills. As I mentioned in my previous post, (our prewriting activity...
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[t] is for tiger and tweezers

By Pauline On October 6, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Activities for Children, Best Of Lessons Learnt Journal, Creative Play, English, Fine Motor Skills, Kids & Writing, Kids Arts and Crafts, Play, Pre school, Preschool, Subjects, Wet Weather, Work
...an Autumn Tree with Pumpkin Seeds. Ah ha – I thought! Let’s use seeds or beans instead. Brilliant! This tiger craft was part of our introduction to the sound [t]. We used chick peas and lentils. To build up their fine motor skills, N & M were armed with tweezers and set to work covering a template of a tiger’s face with the beans. Using tweezers allowed them to practise their fine motor skills. My fine motor skill teaching...
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Play Kit for Quiet Time: Black & White / Memory

By Pauline On August 27, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Fine Motor Skills, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Play, Play Kits for Quiet Time, Pre school, Reading, Subjects, Writing
...work with children, to model new skills to them, to work and play with them, and all done in a relatively quiet manner, (because the rest of the household is napping). Here are the contents of this play kit for quiet time: {FINE MOTOR ACTIVITY}: Make a simple black and white collage to build up fine motor skills; a great pre-writing activity for kids. {PROBLEM SOLVING / CREATIVE ACTIVITY}: This Sesame Street memory game was a hand me down from...
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