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Fine Motor Take Home Kits

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There's just seriously not enough time in the day to get it all in . . . so what do we do with those kids that need extra fine motor practice?  I'm not a huge fan of homework in kindergarten. I don't like to send things home with my kinders.  I would prefer they are outside playing or spending time with their families.  But really, sometimes 10 minutes of fine motor exercise at home can mean the difference in finding success in kindergarten with writing and months and months of struggle and ... VIEW POST

There's just seriously not enough time in the day to get it all in . . . so what do we do with those kids that need extra fine motor practice? I'm not a huge fan of homework in kindergarten. I don't like to send things home with my kinders. I would prefer they are outside playing or spending time with their families. But really, sometimes 10 minutes of fine motor exercise at home can mean the difference in finding success in kindergarten with writing and months and months of struggle and frustration. So I decided several years ago to give those students a bit of help with fine motor take-home kits.

At Home Fine Motor Kit

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Like so many of you, our district is required to have a virtual option for students. But, also like many of you, a boxed curriculum for kindergarten is does not always and adequately address the whole child or what a five year old needs to get ready for school. So when we started discussing what virtual kindergarteners needed, of course, our team said 'fine motor' and hands-on and movement. But how do you incorporate that into a virtual platform? Well, you can't. There absolutely has to be ... VIEW POST

February Fine Motor Morning Work Stations

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I know that as soon as I hit publish for this post  I'm going to start getting emails asking when I'll have my plans done for March, but honestly friends, I'm working on it.  It has just been a crazy month with kindergarten assessments, snow days, mass amount of kids absent from class and report cards.  I'm hoping things will calm down a bit and that I'll have March done a bit ahead of time.  As it is, I still have two or three days left of January morning stations left ... VIEW POST

May Fine Motor Morning Work Stations

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While many of you may only have a few weeks of school left, my kinder friends will be with me until the second week of June so I am still toying with the idea of whether I will be adding another set of Fine Motor Morning Work Stations to my arsenal or whether I will maybe just let them pick their favorites and have them revisit them for the last 2 weeks of school. Until then though, it's May and time to change over stations for a new month of fine motor work.   I'm working into the wee hours of ... VIEW POST

October Fine Motor Morning Work Stations

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Since all of you were so interested in my Back To School Fine Motor Morning Work Stations,  I thought I'd share what I've been up to for October. (If you'd like to see last month's post, just click HERE.)  I just finished setting up my new Morning Work Stations for the month, and since my kinders still needs tons of fine motor work, all the activities within my drawers still have a fine motor emphasis of some kind.  My first set of stations lasted me through September and a bit of October, but ... VIEW POST

17 Ways To Build Fine Motor Activities Into Your Curriculum

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Some of our little ones come to our classes without ever having held a pencil, and suddenly, they are expected to show what they know and practice what we teach with grace and fluidity using a pencil.   But those little muscles don't always have it in them to perform that way.  It's why worksheets don't always belong in a kindergarten class.   I know what you're thinking, 'But I have standards to meet and a curriculum to present.  I don't have time to build fine motor ... VIEW POST

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