Working Our Muscles

We sure do love our time in the gym running, jumping, bouncing and developing our coordination and large muscles! In the classroom it is a different story of how we are developing our smaller muscles. By lacing beads on strings, picking up tiny things with tweezers, and playing with playdough we are working on fine motor. A recent activity had us working our fingers (and patience) as we ever so carefully peeled tiny stickers and placed them "just right" on a dotted line. The children were expected to complete at least one shape with stickers and then were free to change to crayon to trace the lines. Of course this wasn't done in a day; we picked away at it and took breaks from time to time as it was one of those jobs that could get tiresome!