Each morning, P1/2 start with a gentle activity to settle us in. Sometimes we focus on general motor skills, sometimes it’s a task to develop writing skills and sometimes activities that promote listening and attention. Today, we worked on fine motor skills to decorate our names by dabbing paint with cotton buds. We talked about our “Doing Hand”, “Helping Hand” and gave our “Sleeping Fingers” a soft pillow to hold on to! This aims to encourage a good pencil grip.
This activity helps with pencil grip.
Scott holds his bud with his Doing Hand and you can see his cotton wool ball “pillow” giving his tucked in fingers a rest!
We tried to dab carefully inside the lines.
Archie worked with care. His Helping Hand is holding the paper still.
Some chose to paint the coloured letters in a repeating pattern.
When we were done, we tried to dab our names by ourselves.
Some chose to paint with the buds like a paint brush creating lines and patterns.
P2 showed how well their fine motor skills are developing too.
Some pupils had more letters to write than others!
