{"id":45,"date":"2011-12-02T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention1sixtotwelve\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-12-02T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:04:48","slug":"motor-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/2011\/12\/02\/motor-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten children continually develop their <a title=\"The learned ability to perform movements such as holding the body in an upright position, using the hands to handle small toys, eating with a spoon and moving the lips and tongue to express different sounds.\">gross and fine motor skills<\/a> (see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention2\/files\/2012\/12\/MCI_Glossary.pdf\">Glossary<\/a>). They are quite active and really enjoy <a title=\"Physically and energetic behaviors such as chase, jump and play fight, that come with by positive affect from the players towards one another.\">rough and tumble play<\/a> (see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention2\/files\/2012\/12\/MCI_Glossary.pdf\">Glossary<\/a>). It is very important to allow children to move around as often as possible every day. Movement will not only help children develop and refine their gross and fine motor skills, but it will also help with the development of the brain.<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"The developmental area that involves skills which require the coordination of large muscle groups, such as those in the arms, legs and trunk.\">GROSS MOTOR SKILLS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>(see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention2\/files\/2012\/12\/MCI_Glossary.pdf\">Glossary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Most kindergarten children can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>run smoothly and rarely run into obstacles (Fig. 1);<\/li>\n<li>go up and down the stairs, while alternating feet;<\/li>\n<li>hop (Fig. 2)\u00a0forward;<\/li>\n<li>throw and catch different size balls from several feet away;<\/li>\n<li>have good balance (that is, they can stand and walk without falling or having to hold on to something);<\/li>\n<li>can stand on one foot, for several seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3552\/3503744438_85819bce68_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"boy running\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3552\/3503744438_85819bce68_n.jpg\" alt=\"boy running\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: Running<\/h5>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5026\/5693740381_ccf11788fa_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5026\/5693740381_ccf11788fa_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Children hopping<\/h5>\n<h3><a title=\"The developmental area that involves skills which require the coordination of the small muscles of the body, such as the hands and face.\">FINE MOTOR SKILLS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>(see full <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention2\/files\/2012\/12\/MCI_Glossary.pdf\">Glossary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Most kindergarten children can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hold crayons and pencils correctly, i.e. using the tripod position (Fig. 3);<\/li>\n<li>hold scissors and cut simple shapes;<\/li>\n<li>draw a straight line with a ruler (Fig. 4);<\/li>\n<li>stay mostly within the lines when coloring<\/li>\n<li>are able, for the most part, to stay on the line, or within the two lines, when copying words;<\/li>\n<li>engage in threading and lacing activities (Fig. 5);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/files\/2011\/12\/tripodposition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/files\/2011\/12\/tripodposition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Tripod position<\/h5>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3472\/3276245653_ebb2e916b0_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3472\/3276245653_ebb2e916b0_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 4: Ruler<\/h5>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/153\/440727158_58f0197fef_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/153\/440727158_58f0197fef_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 5: Threading and lacing<\/h5>\n<h5>see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention2\/files\/2012\/12\/MCI_References.pdf\">References<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten children continually develop their gross and fine motor skills (see full Glossary). They are quite active and really enjoy rough and tumble play (see full Glossary). It is very important to allow children to move around as often as possible every day. Movement will not only help children develop and refine their gross and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-4-kindergarten-6-12-motor-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/middlechildhoodintervention1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}