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The fine motor centers start the day by warming up students hands. Building fine motor skills are essential for learning how to hold a pencil, cut with scissors, and stabilize movements. Each day the students will have a choice of 12 centers that I integrate the skills we are reviewing with math, sight words, counting and letter recognition. These centers will start our day and ease the transition from home to school with engaging fun activities that trick the kiddos into learning and building their muscles in their hands so that writing is easier and more controlled. With these interactive and engaging activities it will keep them learning as I secretly build up their muscles so they can write more controlled and have better hand-eye coordination. All of these supplies will last the entire year! They will string seasonal beads on pipe cleaners, rescue trapped flies in therapy putty, pick up ping pong balls that look like goggly eyes while using a reacher tool to build those muscles in their hands. As the year goes on, students will have letter hole punchers to punch their sight words, unlock locks where the key has the matching letters or math problem and use tweezers to put frogs on lily pads while counting out the number rolled on the dice. To keep building muscles in their hands they will hole punch bright paper and use pincher fingers to put paper in a basket, link Pop Beads together, and trace with stencils/spirograph. By twisting the nuts and bolts together they will build muscles and coordination as well as cutting straws and squeezing tennis balls open that have a slit for a mouth. Finally, pushing play-doh through extruders and cutting with play-doh scissors they will warm up their hand muscles for the day.

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The fine motor centers start the day by warming up students hands. Building fine motor skills are essential for learning how to hold a pencil, cut with scissors, and stabilize movements. Each day the students will have a choice of 12 centers that I integrate the skills we are reviewing with math, sight words, counting and letter recognition. These centers will start our day and ease the transition from home to school with engaging fun activities that trick the kiddos into learning and building their muscles in their hands so that writing is easier and more controlled. With these interactive and engaging activities it will keep them learning as I secretly build up their muscles so they can write more controlled and have better hand-eye coordination. All of these supplies will last the entire year! They will string seasonal beads on pipe cleaners, rescue trapped flies in therapy putty, pick up ping pong balls that look like goggly eyes while using a reacher tool to build those muscles in their hands. As the year goes on, students will have letter hole punchers to punch their sight words, unlock locks where the key has the matching letters or math problem and use tweezers to put frogs on lily pads while counting out the number rolled on the dice. To keep building muscles in their hands they will hole punch bright paper and use pincher fingers to put paper in a basket, link Pop Beads together, and trace with stencils/spirograph. By twisting the nuts and bolts together they will build muscles and coordination as well as cutting straws and squeezing tennis balls open that have a slit for a mouth. Finally, pushing play-doh through extruders and cutting with play-doh scissors they will warm up their hand muscles for the day.

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