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FINE MOTOR: ACTIVITIES/CUTTING PRACTICE REVIEW: As it relates to "Spring," stems provide line-cutting practice, leaves provide oval and curved line cutting practice, and flowerhead shapes provide a variety of cutting practice skills.
Egg shapes are great oval-cutting practice.
Clouds provide good curved line cutting practice.
A
few options for the review of cutting skills:
*Children
can tear yellow paper scraps to glue onto a white paper banana shape
*Children
can snip orange paper strips to glue onto a white orange shape
*Children
can fringe wide green paper strips for grass (spring theme)
*Children
can cut green paper strips to represent green beans
Other
Fine Motor option for April:
If one of your
letters this month is Ww, don't forget to put out your set of Waffle
Blocks if you have them available.
*From
Shirley Cantrell, teacher at Judson Baptist Church for 20 some odd years:
Weaving:
Cut craft plastic canvas into squares and let the children weave pipe cleaners
through it. Then, mount them on construction paper for display (which would
be a great thing to keep back for your Open House at the end of the year).
Not only is this a fine motor activity, you can pull in "colors" too. And
to make the activity more challenging for those who are ready, you can even draw
a design on the canvas for them to follow. Children love this activity,
and it's three-dimensional.
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Reminder
from Stormie: If you would like to begin collecting ALL my current classroom
ideas (each on a 4 x 6" index card), as well as new ones that I create, you
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