General resources
Reading: You can join this site, Oxford owls, for free to access some e.books for your child to read.
A list of tricky words the children just need to know. Most are working on Phase 2 or 3 at the moment.
We use this to help with handwriting. An easy rule to remember is that all letters except e and d start at the top (the d is wrong in this powerpoint).
The children love this tidy up song - it may just save your sanity!
This is the song we use for Funky Finger arm circling.
A list of Funky Finger activities that might give you some ideas... It really benefits the children to do something every day.
Bilateral Coordination:
1. Use peg boards
2. Lacing cards
3. Building with Legos®
4. Tear lettuce into pieces for a salad
5. Tear construction paper for a collage
6. Peeling stickers
7. Spread icing on cookies or cupcakes
8. Use both arms to twirl streamers
9. Making bead necklaces or bracelets
10. Putting up to 12 piece puzzles together
Scissor Skills
11. Cut straws into 3rds and use to make a necklace
12. Complete 4-6 turn mazes
13. Cut out circle, triangle, and square shapes
14. Cut out clothes for stick people with craft sticks
15. Folding paper into fourths
16. Cutting with crinkle cut or design scissors
17. Threading Buttons
18. Cut out colored lines and make a rainbow
19. Cutting yarn
20. Complete a cutting activity book
Pre-Writing Skills
21. Use clothespins to pick up objects
22. Pinch fruit loops and slide over toothpicks
23. Form letters with wiki stix
24. Push beads onto pipe cleaners
25. Form lines and shapes with pipe cleaners
26. Use fine motor tweezers or tongs to pick up objects
27. Trace letters in shaving cream
28. Trace sandpaper letters
29. Use letter stamps to form their name
30. String letter beads on string to form their name
31. Use a hole punch to cut out designs
32. Button or unbutton large buttons on clothing or button board
33. Drawing a person with at least 6 body parts included
34. Learn to tie their shoes
35. Build complex shapes (towers, bridges, pyramids, etc) with blocks
36. Screwing various size lids onto containers
37. Practice coloring within the lines
38. Tracing around their own hand with a pencil or crayon
39. Reeling a fishing pole.
40. Simple food preparation (measuring, stirring, cutting soft items with a butter knife)
Sensory Activities
41. Play with sensory bins
42. Finger painting coloring pages or a picture
43. Popping large bubble wrap
45. Playing with bread dough
46. Planting flowers or plants in a garden
47. Drawing in sand
48. Washing dishes
49. Drawing or tracing in couscous, rice, lentils etc.
50. Playing with musical instruments (drum, piano, violin, recorder, etc)
How to help your child learn to skip.