Did you know that our kids, even our toddlers and infants, are working on their fine motor skills and preparing for writing every day?
Fine motor skills are skills that require the precise movement of the small muscles in your hands, including your thumbs, fingers, hands, and wrists.
We are intentional about encouraging our children in all our classrooms to work on fine-tuning their fine motor skills in different ways. This includes every time our infants pick up a toy or when they start holding something with one hand, rather than using two. Our toddlers draw with chalk on the playground or crayon on paper. Our preschoolers start gluing and drawing shapes. Our Pre-Kers cut with scissors and even start tracing letters.
Here are some examples of our kids working on their fine motor skills!
A pre-ker cutting along a line with scissors!
A couple of preschoolers using their fine motor skills to put together a tower!
Here we have an infant holding up a cylinder toy!
Here we have an even NEWER baby reaching up to grab the mobile toys!
There really is no shortage of activities for your child to do to be strengthening those hand muscles. You’ll be presently surprised at how naturally these activities occur! Our kids are learning every second of every day!
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Stay tuned for more in next weeks blog!
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