Fine Motor Skill (Early Childhood)
They are able to:
- Approximate a circle in drawing
- Cut paper
- paste using pointer finger
- Dress and undress doll
- Build eight-block tower; although, they have trouble building towers.
- String and lace shoelace
- Print first name
- pour from various container
Here we have a video in which we can observe how children develop their fine motor skill:
Further, I will present a video that shows a way to improve the fine motor skill in early childhood:
Fine Motor Skill (Middle Childhood)
They are able to:
- fold paper into halves and quarters
- trace around hand
- draw restangle, circles, squares, and triangle
- cut interior preces from paper
- reproduce letters
- copy words
As we can see below, Middle Childhood Fine Motor Skill
I would like to improve this skill by doing some activities like the following:
Keep an eye on it!
Gross Motor Skill (Early Childhood)
They are able to:
- hop
- jump
- run back and forth
- throw ball underhanded
- bounce and catch ball
- complete forward somersault (aided)
- hop on one foot
- carry a 16-pound objects
- skip alternating feet
- roller skaletes
- skip rope
In this following video, we can observe how children develop their gross motor skill:
Now, we can take into account some activities to improve the gross and fine motor skill in early childhood at the same time:
Gross Motor Skill (Middle Childhood)
They have already improved the abilities such as:
- running
- jumping
- climbing
They have increased their muscles coordination, they are able to:
- skip
- stop
- change directions while running and throw a ball
- participate in turn-taking, organization, role assignments, realism, and rough and tumble game
We as teacher can improve the gross motor skill by doing several activities in class, For example, as we can see in the video:
References:
uwf.edu/smathews/.../physicaldevelopmentinmiddlechildhood.ppt
Papalia, D., et al. A child world. Mc Graw Hill. USA, 2006
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ReplyDeleteI like all your points of fine ang gross motor skills because I totally agree with you I think that as teacher we can improve the motor skills making some different activities like in your video the gross motor skill that chlid improve the running, jumping and climbing by making different activities.
ReplyDeleteThat's right Cris...!
ReplyDeleteAnd you know something?
At the time we as teachers are preparing a lesson plan, whatever content be, it is important to consider a TPR lesson to motivate learners and discover something new in every class...!!!
Regards,