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This program has eight skill sets to focus on. Focusing on these eight skills, your child will have more confidence to apply them in the academic environment. Your children will be ready to learn additional cognitive skills with minimal frustration.
Fine Motor - Fine motor skills generally refer to the small movements of the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue. Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with legos or duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes.
Drawing - Learning how to draw builds the foundation for letter development, confidence in the writing process and forms the basis for communicating. In drawing children learn the 5 families of shapes. By learning the terminology more complex shapes can be built upon.
Rhythm - Rhythm shapes sound into recognizable patterns and creates emotional meaning on what would be nonsensical chaos. All life is shaped by patterns.
Balance - An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. Balance improves the ability to know where we are in space, improves attention, and activates the equilibrium in the brain.
Spatial Awareness - The body's ability to perceive its position in space and to understand where two or more objects are in relationship to each other and in relationship to the self. Spatial Awareness helps to organize the physical world to support organizing in the internal world.
Core Strength - The core is a group of muscles that stabilizes and controls the pelvis and spine (and therefore influences the legs and upper body). Core strength is less about power and more about the subtleties of being able to maintain the body in ideal postures. A stronger posture increases concentration and focus and frees up more brain energy for cognitive tasks.
Visual Tracking - Visual tracking is the ability to effectively move eyes side to side, up down, or in a circular motion to focus on an object as it flows across a person's visual field. This should emerge around the age of 5. It involves virtually everything that we do, The eyes are constantly moving and tracking for copying material, reading, or aligning information.
Auditory Discrimination - Auditory Discrimination is the ability to recognize similarities and differences between sounds. Learning articulation is the foundation for learning speech and is critical in the development in language and reading skills.
*We reinforce good practice, Everything is a game and directed toward fun.
*If your child starts to become frustrated with an activity we take a step back and think about what needs to be adjusted.
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Fine Motor - Fine motor skills generally refer to the small movements of the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue. Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with legos or duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes.
Drawing - Learning how to draw builds the foundation for letter development, confidence in the writing process and forms the basis for communicating. In drawing children learn the 5 families of shapes. By learning the terminology more complex shapes can be built upon.
Rhythm - Rhythm shapes sound into recognizable patterns and creates emotional meaning on what would be nonsensical chaos. All life is shaped by patterns.
Balance - An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. Balance improves the ability to know where we are in space, improves attention, and activates the equilibrium in the brain.
Spatial Awareness - The body's ability to perceive its position in space and to understand where two or more objects are in relationship to each other and in relationship to the self. Spatial Awareness helps to organize the physical world to support organizing in the internal world.
Core Strength - The core is a group of muscles that stabilizes and controls the pelvis and spine (and therefore influences the legs and upper body). Core strength is less about power and more about the subtleties of being able to maintain the body in ideal postures. A stronger posture increases concentration and focus and frees up more brain energy for cognitive tasks.
Visual Tracking - Visual tracking is the ability to effectively move eyes side to side, up down, or in a circular motion to focus on an object as it flows across a person's visual field. This should emerge around the age of 5. It involves virtually everything that we do, The eyes are constantly moving and tracking for copying material, reading, or aligning information.
Auditory Discrimination - Auditory Discrimination is the ability to recognize similarities and differences between sounds. Learning articulation is the foundation for learning speech and is critical in the development in language and reading skills.
*We reinforce good practice, Everything is a game and directed toward fun.
*If your child starts to become frustrated with an activity we take a step back and think about what needs to be adjusted.
(More)
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