

Research Round-Up: Visual Perception and Handwriting!
Visual Perception and Handwriting: Improve Visual Perception and Improve Handwriting Skills!

Fine Motor Folly: Ghost Busters!
How about we combine Halloween, math, and a fine-motor activity?! Let's Play GHOST BUSTERS! The Goal: Fine motor skills come easily to some students, but are harder for others to master. Finger strength is sometimes overlooked. GHOST BUSTERS encourages kids to use fingers in a pincer grasp and also works on hand strength. From a math perspective, this activity can be adjusted to suit either pre-school, kindergarten, or first-grade level students. In kindergarten, some of the

Fine Motor Folly: Letter Recognition!
Let's Play LETTER DETECTIVE! The Goal: Some children in pre-k and kindergarten recognize letters easily. Others find it hard to tell the differences between 'B' and 'D', for example. Some of this difficulty is because "visual perceptual" skills are still developing. There are a few components to visual perception . . . one is "visual discrimination". Good visual discrimination means a child notices details in an object. For example . . . A giraffe has a long neck. A rhinocero


Research Round-Up: Today's Topic is Pencil Grasps.
Pencils Grasps: Research on When You Should Change a Child's Grasp


Handwriting Help for Kids: Letters and Hot Chocolate?
Letter Formation: Write Letters in Hot Chocolate!