Tiffany's Tips: fun core activities

 

Core strengthening does not only happen in therapy or at the gym. Try these fun core exercises for kids... 

⇨ On the playground activities: swinging from the monkey bars, climbing on jungle gym, and swinging (using legs to propel themselves).

⇨ After-school extracurricular activities: yoga, swimming, karate, and bike riding.

⇨ Jumping activities: playing hopscotch, jumping on a trampoline, and jumping rope. 

⇨ At home activities: crab walking, donkey kicks, wheelbarrow walking, and playing while squatting or kneeling.

Happy Juneteenth

Summer Virtual Summer Classes

It’s time for students to pick up  a pencil and paper and get ready to enter the school. This summer is the time to help your child refresh or develop the handwriting skills they will need prior to re-entering the school building this Fall. In class, your child will engage in fun hands-on multi-sensory motor activities to learn the fundamentals of …

• writing mechanics (capitalization and punctuation) 

• letter formation, size, and alignment

• word spacing

• pencil grip

From Shaving cream to play-doh, your child will experience the joy of writing. This camp will emphasize letter formation using the Handwriting Without Tears® curriculum for PRINTING or Loops and Other Groups to learn CURSIVE. Our goal is to equip children with the necessary tools to write with CONFIDENCE and EASE.    

DATES: Tuesdays and Thursdays (July 6th to July 29th)

TIMES: 4:30pm to 5:30pm CST

PLACE: Zoom (virtual summer classes are designed to meet your child's needs from the safety and comfort of your home)

Email to register and secure your child’s spot.

For more information contact us at 

writenow.reid@gmail.com 

Happy Mother's Day

 

JUSTICE

Tiffany's Tip: Wrist Positioning

Holding your wrist in a slightly extended position pulls the tendons that connect the wrist to the fingers. Therefore, an extended wrist position 

can also move the fingers easier, resulting in better finger control for handwriting.

Try these tips to improve wrist extension when holding a writing utensil…

⇨ rest hand on paper while writing on an easel
⇨ tape mazes and connect the dots activities to refrigerator door to complete
⇨ complete color pattern sheets while lying on the floor prop up on forearms
⇨ wheelbarrow walking, donkey kicks, crab walking
⇨ practicing writing patterns on a vertical surface

⇨ completing written task on a slant board  

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