Author: Louisa Laffy

Gross Motor Activities:

St Peter’s school

* Ball activities; throwing, rolling, bouncing, catching.
* Sports activities; football, swimming, dance, cricket
* Build an obstacle course
* Hopscotch
* Climbing apparatus in the playground
* Bowling
* Twister

Useful resources:
Pinterest
https://theimaginationtree.com/40-fine-motor-skills-activities-for-kids/
https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1081709/parents-guide-gross-fine-motor-skills
www.twinkl.co.uk

St Peter’s school

Activities to support your child’s literacy skills
How to help your child be ‘ready to write’.

Fun activities to do
at home:

2. Mark making using different media
e.g. cornflour and water, paint, shaving foam, rice, oats, chalk and sand
3.Tweezers, pegs and pipettes
4. Scissors and other utensils
Writing for a purpose:
In order to engage, encourage and motivate our children to want to write and mark make, it is essential that this is carried out in a meaningful context. Below are some examples:
Draw a land for their favourite toys and label the different sections.
Create their own shop/restaurant role play and make price tags, menus and signs
Provide post-its and labels with different types of pens for the children to make labels for their models and/or pictures
Include the children in ‘grown-up’ activities such as helping to write the weekly shopping list
Baking and writing up the recipe

Developing your child’s fine motor and gross motor skills are essential in order to prepare them for the process of writing. Below are some fun and easy activities that you can do at home to build their strength and encourage them to mark make.
Fine motor skills are small movements — such as picking up small objects — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross motor skills are involved in movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts and movements., such as running, crawling, swimming, etc
1. Threading and weaving: