Fine Motor

Year 1 participate in daily Fine Motor rotations where they build strength in their fingers and hands. This helps us with our writing control and stamina.

Some of the fine motor activities include: cutting and gluing, nuts and bolts, cotton balls with chop sticks, tracing, pick up sticks, weaving, pegging, scrunching, pin pricking, drawing, lacing, peg board, playdough, sticking, spinning tops, paper clips, stencils, handwriting and elastics. We try to change the activities throughout the term. We also use this time to promote our SCARF values- encouraging students to be working as a team with set up and pack up of the activity. Students are  improving their oral language skills as well as they talk to their team mates about the activity.

Take a look at some of our students participating in a rotation.

 Lacing

 Drawing

 Cotton balls with chopsticks

 Pin pricking

 Tracing

 Pegging

 Cutting and gluing

 Weaving

Scrunching

 

 Nuts and bolts

 Sand/kinetic sand

 Peg board

 Playdough

 Sticking

 Spinning tops

 Gluing

 Paper clips

 Stencils

 Handwriting

Elastics

What is your favourite fine motor rotation? Do you do any fine motor activities at home?