It’s Wednesday! The middle of the week. We are excited for a slightly warmer day today. Here are some invitations from middler teachers Sarah and Caitlyn. Enjoy!
Fine Motor Invitation: Collage with 3-D Items. Find different materials in your house for collage such as string, cardboard, buttons, craft sticks, sequins, beads, etc.
Intent: This activity incorporates fine motor development by encouraging the middlers to use their hand muscles to put glue on the paper. They can use the pincer grip to move and stick the items on the paper.
Art Invitation: Draw using stencils. If you do not have stencils you can use flat toys, blocks of different shapes, or cookie cutters.
Optional: Color in the shapes you made with the stencils.
Intent: The middlers used stencils a lot while at school. This activity uses a lot of fine motor skills as the middlers will have to hold the stencil and trace around it.
Outdoor/Nature/Gross Motor Invitation: Play I Spy with your child outside, looking for interesting items and animals in nature.
Possible dialogue:
“I spy something green that moves in the wind”
“I spy something small and black that crawls on the ground”
“I spy something green that grows out of the ground”
Intent: Get outside and enjoy the nice weather and beautiful spring scenery. We want to encourage the middlers to use all of their big body and fine motor muscles to enhance gross motor development. This activity also uses perception and observation. Sit in nature and have your child observe and appreciate their surroundings.
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