Fine Motor Skills Overview

Group Students and Room number D a y a n d ti m e o f i n t e r v e n ti o n

1 Gabriel Beavan G1 Monday P3 – 11.30-12:00

Jye Pereyra G4
Mason Pireroa G4
Oliver Klason G1
Elijah Storer G2
Ollie Potts G2
Liam Forbes G2
Jackson Burns G1

2 Josh Henderson G1 Monday P3 – 12:00-12:30

Finn Langan G3
Zay Tyler G4
Aiden Austin G4
Ashton Firth G3
Amino Osman G3
Breanna Leonard G3

Goals
Students are to build their
fine motor skills. Then use
these skills to accurately
build items
Students can hold scissors
correctly and cut along the
desired line with 80%
accuracy
Increase hand eye
coordination to complete
tasks with 80% accuracy
Students can correctly form
letters – writing on the
correct dotted thirds
Students can write
sentences that make sense,
include correct letter
formation and punctuation
Fine Motor Skills Overview
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
• Playdough – form letters on the table or on letter mat, or they can create items with playdough
• Tweezer mat activities
• Threading activities
• Tracing lines
• Writing letters in sand
• Lego – small woollies lego or boxed lego
• Peg board
• Cutting sheets
• Cutting sheets
• Tracing sheets
• Threading activities
• Peg boards
• Playdough - playdough warm up big whole hand squeeze, closed fist hammering, finger push outs to
flatten, roll into a ball, roll long sausage and decorate with pins to create a snake, playdough activity cards
(Focus: using both hands together, hand and finger strength)
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Tracing letters with whiteboard marker
• Writing letters in their workbook
• Explicit instruction from EA
• Practice in their writing book
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Lesson + Time ACTIVITIES
Warm up Goal: warm up hands and fine motor muscles
5 minutes • Playdough letter mats
• Tracing lines
• Scissor activities
• Threading activities
• Peg board
• Lego
Letter formation Goal: focus on specific letter formation
10 minutes • Practise in their writing book
• Model on the board correct formation and terminology
• EA write letter on the board

Sentences and writing Goal: transfer knowledge of letter formation to sentence writing and focus on sentences that make sense and
practice have sentence boundaries.
10 minutes • Brainstorm what a sentence needs – to make sense, full stop/exclamation mark/ question mark, capital
letter.
• EA models writing 3-5 sentence on the board including lots of words with the focus letters – include think a
louds about what they are doing
• Students are then to copy the sentence into the book
• EA give immediate feedback as students are working.

Pack up and return to - Return resources to correct folder/box

class - Return to classroom
 Recording Sheet – notes and feedback (group1 )
Gabriel Beavan G1 Liam Forbes G2 Ollie Potts G2

Jackson Burns G1 Elijah Storer G2 Oliver Klason G1

 Recording Sheet – notes and feedback (group1 )
Jye Pereyra G4 Mason Pireroa G4
 Recording Sheet – notes and feedback (group2 )
Josh Henderson G1 Amino Osman G3 Aiden Austin G4

Breanna Leonard G3 Ashton Firth G3 Zay Tyler G4

 Recording Sheet – notes and feedback (group 2)
Finn Langan G3