Why Yoga? Yoga teaches students body awareness, how to move more freely, balance, strength and flexibility. We also learn to stay in a defined space (our mat), practice taking our shoes off and putting them back on and rolling up our own mat develops hand skills.
What body movement fun do you have at home? Hand-eye coordination is the ability to use our hands and eyes together to accomplish a task. Developing hand-eye coordination helps students to determine hand dominance (right or left), teaches the concepts of up, down, under, beside, develops their ability to climb, balance, jump, push, pull and develop depth perception.
Play activities in the classroom help with the development of hand-eye coordination. Children with well developed hand-eye coordination find skills such as drawing, cutting with scissors and handwriting easier in the classroom. Remember to allow your children to use their hands as much as possible. When you do things for them you are taking away their opportunities to be successful. Giving children many opportunities and time to practice self-care skills is the best way to help them feel capable and increase their self esteem. It creates a drive to do it “all by myself” and feel in charge.
Self-care skills include; dressing and undressing, washing hands, drinking from a cup, brushing teeth, taking off and putting on shoes, eating with a spoon and fork, hanging up their coat, mastering snaps, buttons and zippers. What does your child enjoy doing all by him/her self? Dramatic play is a type of play where children accept and act out roles. Some of the classroom favorites include firefighter, doctor, chef, hairdresser, nurse, mother, and dad. Dramatic play helps children work together, develops hand-eye coordination by “dressing up”, increases language, helps children understand the world around them and how it works
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May 2013
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