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¡Feliz día a todos los niños y las niñas!

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Get a grip !
When children go onto school, they’ll be expected to hold a pencil, write their name, open their lunch box, put on their shoes!

Even earlier, in some Early Years settings, sadly children are ‘expected’ to follow the dotted line with their pencil and formally practice name writing completing worksheets in anticipation of moving onto school. It’s formal table top planned lesson!

But earlier is NOT better, why are we expecting 3 & 4 year olds to participate in planned lessons that replicate a school?
They are not school age children.
Let them be little, let’s take the pressure off and recognise handwriting and writing their name needs so many other skills and development FIRST

Dexterity, a good grip, fine motor skills and the ability to use strength,force.
Not just in their fingers their whole body too.

Movement is essential for learning
Movement IS learning!

Fine Motor Skills
Manipulation
Coordination
Dexterity
Attention
Pivotal joint development
Auditory discrimination
Force, or grading of movement
Balance vestibular
Gross motor skills
Bilateral coordination
Body awareness
Visualisation
Hand preference
Body position
Postural reflexes
Tactile discrimination
Eye-hand coordination
Muscle tone
Postural stability
Visual discrimination
All the senses
Power. agility, strength

All these are essential in order for a child to write their name!

A child writing their name is NOT an indication of how well they’ll do at school!

Let’s stop the focus on being able to write their name before getting to school and turn our attention to playing, movement, getting outside. Big scale movements that require, strength, GRIP.

If a child is moving, PLAYING, lifting things, free marking, painting, scribbling, vertical painting, digging, climbing, crawling along the ground, swinging, hanging upside down, rolling, stirring, pulling, stretching, kneading, pushing, pulling, proding, poking. Running, jumping, climbing trees!
MOVING 🙌🏼 PLAYING ❤️

Let’s set children up with the skills necessary to achieve.
Let’s all get a grip ! 😉

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