Pre-writing activities at home

This week we talked about line drawing. Each lesson focused on a specific type of line:

lesson 1: horizon and vertical  lines

lesson 2: spirals

lesson 3: curls

lesson 4: zigzags

Tracing, painting, and drawing lines can help improve your child's writing skills. 

Here are some activities you may choose to set up at home to provide extra support for your child:

·        Threading and lacing with a variety of sized laces.

·        Playdough activities that may involve rolling with hands or a rolling pin, hiding objects such as coins in the play dough or just creative construction.

·        Scissor projects that may involve cutting out geometric shapes to then paste them together to make pictures such as robots, trains or houses.

·        Tongs or teabag squeezers to pick up objects.

·        Drawing or writing on a vertical surface.

·        Every day activities that require finger strength such as opening containers and jars.

·        Pre-writing shapes: Practice drawing the pre-writing shapes (l, —, O, +, /, square, \, X, and Δ).

·        Finger games: that practice specific finger movements such as Incy wincy Spider.

·        Craft: Make things using old boxes, egg cartons, wool, paper and sticky or masking tape.

·        Construction: Building with duplo, lego, mobilo or other construction toys.

Vertical and horizontal line: