You’ve probably heard of gross motor skills, but what are they exactly? And why are they important? Gross motor development is fascinating. Watching a child's gross motor development starting as babies all the way to the teenage years is pretty neat! When my children were toddlers, I began doing quite a few fine motor activities at home. I realized I was doing fewer activities focused on gross motor skills, so I decided to make a change and start doing activities to help them develop those … [Read more...]
A is for Apple Activities
We are just finishing up our first week of preschool! We had so much fun learning this week. Troy kept saying how much he loved school this week! Makes my heart happy to hear that! :) We are going through my preschool curriculum and since some of the material is review for him, I am adding in some supplemental activities. This week we focused on the letter A. Here's a little bit of what we did this week... We made an alligator out of the letter A. We also used Do A Dot Markers\ with … [Read more...]