Welcome to February

Throughout the month of February the red group has focussed on developing our fine motor control.

Fine motor skills are about the small muscle movements in the fingers, hands and forearms. These skills develop over time as children interact with the world around them. As children improve their fine motor skills they will become able to perform controlled and stable movements, when:

• Holding a pencil.
• Feeding themselves.
• Cutting along straight and curved lines.
• Opening lunch boxes.
• Drawing circles and crosses.
• Building things with blocks.
• Making sculptures with materials like clay.

            

You can see the development of these skills as we:

• Use scissors to cut along lines.
• Mark making using our fingers in flour.
• Squeezing the glue out of the bottle.
• Using our hands and fingers to add details to our clay/ playdough models.

Stay and Play Sessions

Thanks to our wonderful Red Group parents and carers for coming into nursery to spend the morning with us. We are all so proud of how your child showed you around the nursery and shared their favourite experiences with you.

See you in March

Mrs Love, Mrs McFarlane & Mrs McCluskey xx