This week we have been learning about each others families. We all have different kinds of families. We made our own family trees. We hope you can make our open house on Wednesday, September 11, from 5-6:30.
Ask your kiddo about magic coloring. We are learning to color in the lines, using a tripod grip, and fill in the entire area.
Coloring
- Grasp
- 3-fingers to hold crayon
- Show video/use crayon song
- Use tiny crayons (broken crayons)
- Prevents holding crayon with fist
- Coloring hand
- Need to rest dominant hand on surface to stabilize
- Helps with control of crayon
- Helping hand
- Needed to hold paper in place
- Coloring tools
- Markers offer less resistance
- Good for those that struggle to use crayons due to weakness
- Offer less control than crayons
- Crayons offer more resistance
- Allow for more control
- Help build fine motor strength
- Accuracy
- Bolded boundary lines
- Thick > thin
- Gradually decrease thickness
- 1/4” > 3/16” > 1/8”
- Raised borders
- Stencils
- Cookie cutters
- Glued lines
- Completion / Thoroughness
- Size of area to color
- Small > large
- Less fatigue with smaller area
- “Magic”
- Encourage students to do magic and make the white area disappear
It has been a Fantastic start to a Fantastic Fox 4K year!!! We celebrated today with woodland animal masks and play! We have been working hard on learning routines, waiting, listening and taking turns.
