Blog by Tag: fine motor
Nuts and bolts
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This week the Ducklings have carefully placed nuts and bolts to create their own Metal Mike robots.
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fine motor Creative learning Funky Fingers
Catherine Wheels
The Ducklings have been using their funky fingers to carefully place sequins to make sparkly Catherine wheels.
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Herb soup
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We are learning about the sense of smell this week. We have harvested some herbs from our garden and have been using scissors to snip the herbs and make our own 'herb soup.' The children have enjoyed using their sense of smell to investigate each of the different herbs.
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fine motor Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Using a knife and fork
On our malleable table this week we have been rolling play dough sausages and then using our fine motor skills to practise cutting them with a knife and fork.
Practise using your knife and fork correctly at home too.
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fine motor Physical development Malleable
Our sewing skills
We have been using our fine motor skills to 'sew' the first letter of our names. We chose different materials and techniques.
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Funky fingers
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We have been strengthening our finger muscles by weaving ribbons onto wire trays. This also helped us with our sewing.
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Sewing
This week we have been using threading and simple 'sewing' techniques. We practised threading ribbons over and under some wire racks to begin with. Next we have sewn ribbons, wool or thread through a template to make the first letter of our names.
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Sewing
This week we have been using threading and simple 'sewing' techniques. We practised threading ribbons over and under some wire racks to begin with. Next we have sewn ribbons, wool or thread through a template to make the first letter of our names.
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Making Chinese Dragons
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Colouring, cutting and folding paper to make Chinese dragons.
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fine motor Creative learning Chinese new year Funky Fingers
Making snowflakes
The Ducklings have been using their funky fingers to create snowflakes out of sticks and marshmallows. They are quite fiddly, but have managed really well.
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fine motor Creative learning Funky Fingers
Catherine wheels
The Ducklings have used their funky fingers to place sequins carefully on the Catherine wheel shapes. They then used the iPads to take a photograph of their work.
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Fireworks
The Ducklings have enjoyed chalking firework patterns on the playground with chalks.
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