Over 4000 free K-8 resources for learning at school and home.

Powerpoint presentation with information about fine and gross motor skills:

• Postral Control / Strength
• Kinesthesia / Proprioception
• Bilateral Coordination
• Motor Planning / Sequential Processing
• Motor activities to help the kids attend and focus
• Motor skill development
• Scissor skills
• Fine motor skills
• Activities for fine motor coordination
• Fine motor coordination activities
• Pre-writing / visual motor
• Sequence of handwriting development

Example ideas for how to display letters and signs around the classroom.

Purpose: Sense of touch - Have the student pick up and wring out the sponge with both hands, then press it against the blackboard to leave a print.  

(4 page packet) Welcome to the world of young children's writing.  As you invite young students to write, you join a growing national movement of teachers who are effectively bridging two seemingly different approaches to beginning literacy instruction.  One approach is the kids need phonics first method, and the other is the whole language method.  

Example ideas for learning left / right orientation.  Games include hokey-pokey and simon says...

How many drops of water will a coin hold before the water runs over the edge?  

Push a button through the slit in the cardboard, holding the button with thumb and tip of first finger.  See how many you can push through in two minutes.  

Hand strengthening exercise ideas: 1 page PDF

Classroom activity for developing hand muscles, learning the separation of the two sides of the hand.  Site in a circle or have two people facing each other.  Pass the bean bag using the clothes pin...