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Preschool Cutting Station

8/26/2018

Preschool is the prefect time to start building fine motor skills and hand strength.
Allowing children to use scissors in a variety of ways will give them the opportunity to develop those much-needed fine motor skills as they begin the process of learning how to write.
But it is much more than just fine motor skills, when children use scissors they are also improving hand eye coordination and bilateral coordination.

Give children plenty of opportunity to use scissors through out the day.

One way is to give children access to a cutting station. Set up a simple cutting station that children can use through out the day.
Morning Work Time
Quiet Time
Table Top Activities before nap
or
When children need to be redirected

Have different items for the children to use scissors with.

Straws
Paint Chips
Sale fliers

Challenge children with different styles of cutting tasks.

Short Straight Lines
Short Slanted Lines

Long Straight Lines
Curved Lines
Zig Zag Lines

Shapes

Spirals

Start and Stop Strips

Preschool Cutting Skills

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New for January

1/7/2015

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Morning Message

Morning Message in December was a huge hit with everyone that used it and January (TNB) is packed with some more interactive learning fun.

Build a Snowman Numbers

Build a Snowman CVC Word Family

Building Fine Motor Skills Winter Collection

All of these products can be found here.

January ABC Time and Math Time morning messages are pre-written and carefully planned to address a variety of language and literacy learning and math foundations. These messages are also designed to differentiate teaching objectives.

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Building fine motor skills with fun hands on learning activities. These simple activities are essential for building fine motor skills needed for writing.

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Build a Snowman is a fun hands-on learning game that will give your young students an opportunity to practice matching and identifying numbers 1 to 10.

Works sheets included with this game.
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Help our young learners become great readers and writes with this fun and simple CVC word game. Children will build snowmen using picture cards and CVC word families.

Word families include in this packet (-ad, -at, -en, -ig, -ix, -og, -un)

Works sheets included with this game.

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Jack Frost Stringing Tree

12/19/2013

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Jack Frost has been dancing on the grass and in the trees, so it was time for us to change our string tree to a Jack Frost Tree.

Here is a close up look at some of the strings.