During the upcoming summer months it will be beneficial to your child to make a return to some handwriting basics. The link provided offers Great Hearts' videos that include both correct letter formation and sounds of all our 70 phonograms. Challenge your child to follow along.
*Proper handwriting is essential and allows for ease into cursive.
Use videos as often as you'd like but please be sure to review before the start of the new school year.
Remember to keep those hands strong by utilizing some Finger Gym activities provided below or create your own strengthening exercises.
Here are fun ways to build fine motor skills.
1. Draw and color pictures (using broken crayons promotes better grip): create a comic or book, copy characters from a book, magazine or favorite show
2. Build with small Legos
3. Cut and create crafts with art supplies (you can even use the fun blade scissors)
4. Tear art- tearing different colored paper and gluing to create a design
5. Practice correct letter formation by writing in salt, sugar, whipped cream or shaving cream on a cookie sheet
6. Single hand hole punch
7. Use tweezers/tongs/clothespins to pick up or move small objects out of egg carton.
8. Use bread dough, pizza dough, etc., to squeeze with index finger and thumb to hunt for dried pieces of pasta hidden inside
9. Place coins, beads, Legos into play dough to pull out
10. Roll, cut, squeeze, design with play dough or putty
11. Place washcloth or hand towel under water, have your child wring out the water
12. Use water bottle to squirt out water on cement/sidewalk. Have them squirt to make shapes and letters.
Hand strengthening through:
