This activity is more than just fun; it’s a powerful tool for promoting joint attention, fostering creativity, and building fine motor strength. It’s a simple concept that can be modified to meet the unique needs of each child.
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Allowing children to use safe knives is more than just a fun activity. It’s an opportunity for them to develop skills and explore their senses. By encouraging their involvement in food preparation, we’re creating enriching sensory experiences that will benefit them for years to come.
This presentation examines the physical development of infants and toddlers, its impact on cognitive development, and teachers’ classroom activities to promote both.
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Piano Hands: Motor Skills
Integrating both fine and gross motor activities into piano teaching can significantly benefit students. Their full piano-playing potential will be unlocked by laying a strong foundation in motor skills.
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Piano Hands: Bilateral Coordination
Imagine you’re trying to pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time. That’s using bilateral coordination – using both sides of your body together in a coordinated way. It’s like your left and right hand are working as a team, even if they’re doing different things.
Visual-motor integration refers to the smooth teamwork between what we see and what our hands do. Think of it as your eyes sending information to your brain, and your brain sending it to your hands.
This clever little game challenges players to use their fingers to manipulate pegs in a variety of patterns. I have it in a regular rotation in my bag of tricks for piano lessons. Newbie piano students have a hard time moving one finger at a time. This toy helps students with that.
Christine just did a break-out session on pre-handwriting at the 2019 Mississippi Early Childhood Association Imagine Conference in Jackson. If you’d like to refer back to it for reminders and web links, it is available to download.
My instinct to guard glue stick caps comes from my days as a toddler classroom teacher, where glue stick caps were not only a choking hazard but also a hidden teaching opportunity.
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