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What are fine motor skills?
What are fine motor skills?
Fine motor skills let kids perform crucial tasks like reaching and grasping, moving objects and using tools like crayons, pencils and scissors. As kids get better at using their hands, their hand-eye coordination improves. They also learn skills they need to succeed in school, such as drawing and writing.
Why do we have to work on these skills?
Why do we have to work on these skills?
Fine motor skills provide a surprising pathway to school readiness.
Fine motor skills provide a surprising pathway to school readiness.
FINE MOTOR SKILLS NEEDED AT SCHOOL
FINE MOTOR SKILLS NEEDED AT SCHOOL
When fine motor skills are delayed, a student’s success in the classroom can be greatly impaired.
When fine motor skills are delayed, a student’s success in the classroom can be greatly impaired.
Check some of these fine motor activities you can do at home!
Check some of these fine motor activities you can do at home!
When do we need to worry?
When do we need to worry?
If you have some of the following concerns about your child once he/she is in school, you may want to ask for help from your child’s teacher. Your teacher may recommend that you seek further help from your doctor or another health professional such as an occupational therapist.
Cannot seem to decide which hand to use for fine motor activities
Movements are shaky or stiff
Arms and hands seem very weak
Not able to draw the basic shapes such as circle, cross (+), square, triangle
Not able to cut along straight and curved lines with scissors
Having a lot of difficulty learning to print letters or numbers
What can we do to build fine motor skills?
What can we do to build fine motor skills?
tongs
rubber bands
play doh
lacing
coins
legos
crayons
scissors
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