Fairfield Montessori School

Tearing paper a simple fine motor activity that requires only scrap paper and your hands. In fact, tearing paper actually helps children develop so many essential skills: hand strength, hand eye coordination, precision, refined movements, bilateral coordination…

When a child tears a piece of paper, they improve hand strength and endurance in the small muscles in the hand. These intrinsic muscles are important in so many fine motor skills, including those important to handwriting and coloring, managing buttons and zippers, manipulating pegs, and more.

When paper is torn, the hands assume a great tripod grasp which is effective and a mature grasp for writing and coloring. The non-dominant hand is assisting in the tearing and encourages appropriate assistance for tasks like holding the paper while writing, and managing paper while cutting with scissors.

Just look at the skills kids develop with a tear paper activity:
https://www.theottoolbox.com/torn-paper-art-awesome-fine-motor/

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Preparing for our thanksgiving meal. The meal was delicious and the children were happy and proud of their cooking. Our thanksgiving feast was a huge success! Thanks to our little helpers. Thank you to all the parents for bringing all the ingredients to help make our feast a success!

Orientation: learning to pour.

1st day of school for our new students.

Fairfield Montessori School graduates from 2001 to 2019. ...., please save the date!! We are having a reunion / picnic at the Eastern shore
JUNE 1st 2019
Please come!!! I would like to see everyone and to know how are you doing!

Looking forward to seeing all of you!

Thank you!

Ms. Laling

Taking care of the outdoor environment whether gardening, raking, or pulling weeds, is a valuable activity in which children love to participate. Learning to care for living things will help children develop a sense of appreciation for nature. Gardening also provides an innately satisfying contact with nature and lets us partake in one of life's most basic pleasures -- watching it grow.