Kindergarten, Writing, Week 9

This week we worked on numbers 4 and 5.


For Small Muscle Development:

• Wednesday we cut and glued pictures for “Say it with Pictures”
• Friday we drew pictures in the sandbox

For Writing Development:

• Tuesday we played “Just What I Said”
• This game helps children to focus on left and right, which is necessary for writing.
• First I give K. an instruction, like “hop 3 times on your left foot”
• Then she gives me something to do (she doesn’t get that all my instructions include left/right)
• Then I give her another instruction, “touch your right elbow with your left hand”
• We go back and forth a few times. At first, keep your instructions very simple so as not to frustrate your child. We’ve played this quite a few times, so my instructions are getting more complex and she gets better with knowing her left from her right.
• Wednesday our activity was “Say It With Pictures”
• You need a magazine with lots of good pictures, construction paper, scissors, and glue.
• Choose a topic. Ours was Spring.
• Let your child cut out pictures that go with the topic and glue them on the construction paper.
• Then help your child find or write words that tell about the pictures and glue them by the picture. Some of our words were: Spring, Bloom, Animals . . .