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Motor Skills Development and Enhancement

Motor skills are skills that enable the movements and tasks we do every day. Learning these skills is a crucial part of child development. They are further divided into Gross motor skills and Fine motor skills.

 
GROSS MOTOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Gross Motor Skill Development (walking, running, jumping, climbing, balance, strength). Gross Motor development involves the larger, stronger muscle groups of the body. In early childhood, it is the development of these muscles that enable the baby to hold his/her head up, sit, crawl and eventually walk, run and skip.

Between the ages of 3-4 years, we ensure that our children can

  • Run around obstacles
  • Walk on a line
  • Balance on one foot for 5-10 seconds
  • Hop on his/her preferred foot
  • Ride a tricycle
  • Walk up and down stairs with alternating feet, without support
  • Jump from 12 inches with feet together

Between the ages of 4-5 years, we ensure that our children can:

  • Walk a balance beam forwards & backwards
  • Balance on 1 foot for 8-10 seconds
  • Skip, alternating feet
  • Begin to jump rope
  • Throw a ball to hit a target
  • Jump back
  • Hop 5 times on 1 foot
  • Climb the rungs of a playground slide ladder
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FINE MOTOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Fine Motor Skill Development (coloring, cutting, beading, lego, drawing). "Fine motor" refers to the movements we make with the small muscles of the hands. Their fine motor skills develop as their whole body starts to move and become more stable.

They also learn to do more things with their hands as their cognitive and social/emotional skills improve.

Below are some of the typical developmental milestones for fine motor skills.

Between the ages of 3-4 years, your child will:

  • Build a tower of 9-10 small blocks
  • Use playdough to make balls, snakes, cookies, etc.
  • Build things with large linking blocks
  • Draw a circle by themselves.
  • Start to hold a crayon or pencil with a mature grasp (like an adult)
  • Cut across a piece of paper
  • Start to cut along a straight line
  • Put on most items of clothing by herself, but may still need help with shirts and jackets Feed himself well with a spoon and fork
  • Feed himself well with a spoon and fork

Sensory Development With Block Play:

Assorted kits of various blocks help children enhance their color, shape, size and weight recognition skills which in turn improves their memory, hand-eye co-ordination and judgement skills.

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