Fine motor group summary:
What are fine motor skills?
Fine motor skills are tasks or activities in which you use the small muscles of your hands and wrists to make movements. These skills are important in activities such as writing, cutting, and opening your lunch box, tying your shoelaces, arts, craft and much more.
Aim:
To improve hand strength, finger manipulation and coordination and other underlying components of fine motor skills through a fun and social setting.
Goals:
To be able to grip and manipulate objects.
To be able to use both hands for as task.
To increase hand strength.
To coordinate the thumb and one finger to pick an object up rather than using the whole hand.
Handwriting group summary:
What are handwriting skills?
Handwriting is the ability to write letters, number, and words on a surface with a pen or pencil from left to write. It also includes understanding uppercase letters, uppercase letters, and correct spelling. Writing by hand assists with learning, problems solving skills and creativity.
Aim:
To improve letter formation and speed of writing. To write words and letters with little errors in a fun and social setting.
Goals:
To improve handwriting technique, including pencil grip and control.
To improve hand strength.
To promote natural structure or words, letters, numbers and shapes.
To enable ease with the skill of handwriting.
School readiness group summary:
What is school readiness?
School is the place of learning, friendships, and connection. Being ready for school includes routine, socialising, skills for everyday such as writing, cutting and completing tasks when getting ready for school.
Aim:
To prepare for school in a fun and supportive environment. To ease the transition into a school environment. Organising and planning for the school day ahead. Getting organised for school and packing school bag.
Goals:
To develop confidence and independence with school tasks
To improve/develop self-care tasks
To improve fine motor skills such as opening a lunch box, using scissors and prewriting skills.
Social skills group summary:
What are social skills?
Social skills are all about interacting and communicating with other people. This is important with our friends, family, carers and at school.
Aim:
To express ideas, interests, and emotions. To listen to other people while they are talking and take turns sharing information. To learn about the different ways we can communicate.
Goals:
Expand on our knowledge of communicating in different ways
Explore ways of sharing our interests and actively listening to others
Express and identify our emotions.
