Soft start activities are important to help ease into the school day. These help with pre-handwriting skills, strengthening hands, grasp etc and most importantly they are fun.
These type of activities may be going to the Dough Disco, which we do regularly. That is great fun! It might also be the ‘Cheerio Challenge’ where the children have to try and thread cheerios onto a skewer in a set time. Then, they have to try and get faster and improve on this skill. They love it. Here are some pictures.
We get to have soft start activities in the mornings before we begin any writing. Sometimes our learning begins outside, sometimes it begins inside. Here are some photos of us with a soft start activity. This helps us to build up our fine motor skills and is a pre-handwriting activity. It helps to strengthen our hands/fingers to help us with our pencil grip, writing etc. We loved it. What we had to do was build a tower using lego, but we only had a set amount of time to do it in. Then we got another go at it, the same amount of time and we had to see if we could get more blocks built on our tower to make it even bigger.
Have a look at the concentration while we were doing it! It was great fun and we rose to the challenge!
