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Gross Motor Skills Balloon Play via Lessons Learnt Journal

Balloon Play

By Pauline On March 20, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Fine Motor Skills, Play, Pre school, Short & Simple, Toddler Activities
Gross motor skills are not only essential for moving around and playing; they are also crucial for fine motor development. Our control over our whole body impacts the way our hands function. We need a stable base from which our arms and hands can operate. Our trunks need to be strong and stable to hold us up. We need to be able to turn and rotate our bodies to reach for objects in all directions and to cross the midline . We need shoulder,...
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Literacy Help Kids Write 10 Parent Tips via Lessons Learnt Journal (1)

Literacy: Helping Kids Write

By Pauline On August 30, 2013 · 7 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Kids & Writing, More, Parenting, Pre school, Primary School (9 - 12 years) Activities, Subjects, Work, Writing
...okes, etc. Read the journal regularly. 8. Give gifts that encourage writing. I love receiving notebooks (lol), but some other gift ideas include specialty papers and pens. 9. Use new technologies. E.g. word processors. Where fine motor skills are hindering the actual physical task of handwriting, using new technologies may help keep children motivated with writing, while they continue to build up their fine motor skills. 10. Write daily. We...
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paint it: let the good times roll with dinosaurs

By Pauline On November 22, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, Fine Motor Skills, Kids Arts and Crafts, Messy Play, Play, Pre school, Preschool, Wet Weather
...interrupted time with my kids. We did that and so much more. By the time we had finished I was surprised to find that an hour had passed. We had so much fun playing together. Many skills were also practised through our play: fine motor skills, gross motor skills, life skills, language and creativity – all without the drudgery of dry drill & repetition. I could not have asked for a better morning. N & M: 3 years, 5 months. This post...
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Prewriting Activity Cotton Swab Painting via Lessons Learnt Journal

Prewriting Activity: Cotton Swab Painting

By Pauline On October 9, 2013 · 13 Comments · In Activities for Children, Creative Play, English, Fine Motor Skills, Handwriting, Infants School (5 - 8 years), Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Kids Arts and Crafts, Play, Pre school, Preschool, Primary School (9 - 12 years), Primary School (9 - 12 years) Activities, Subjects, Toddler, Work, Writing
...loads of prewriting worksheets; simply because they aren’t engaged for very long with such prewriting activities. Instead, they have built up their prewriting skills mainly through play. Hours of building up their fine motor skills through: Creative Play Art Activities Messy Play Outdoor Play Play Dough Here is fun way to build up prewriting skills using a very simple art activity: painting with a cotton swab. You will need: A large...
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