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From Stormie:
As in the months before, you can provide pre-drawn lines on paper for cutting (straight lines, wavy lines, zig-zag lines, etc).
You can also provide pre-drawn basic shapes for cutting. Besides practicing fine motor skills, it's a way to review shape names that have been learned throughout the school year.
Summer themes provide wonderful cutting opportunities:
*A big round sun can be a simple circular shape
*How about seashell shapes? For example, the
shape of a sand dollar may be an easy shape while a starfish with all its corners
can be a real challenge
*Sailboat sails are
neat straight-line triangular shapes
*An ice
cream cone is a good item for cutting (the triangular cone has straight lines
while the ice cream scoop is round).
Here's
another wonderful fine motor review option for the last month of the school year
from Patti Anderson:
Shape Lacing: I cut
two shapes from tag board that are exactly the same size (two circles, two squares,
etc). I then punch holes all the way around them, making sure to hold the
two shapes together while punching so that the holes of one shape align with the
holes of the other shape. Then, I place the two shapes together and tie
a piece of yarn to one set of aligned holes (make sure the yarn is long enough
to lace the entire shape). I wrap a piece of tape tightly to the other end
of the yarn forming a lacing "needle." The children are shown
how to lace the two shapes together.
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