4-YEAR OLD WRITING SKILLS

Assalamualaikum parents,

Some of you have sent your children to the kindergarten as early as 4 years old. They are taught how to write and how to colour and how to draw.

At Little Caliphs, we train our children as soon as they come to school. Firstly, we will do many Preschool Activities to enhance their soft motor skills. From there, we correct the way they hold their pencils. Here are some preschool fine motor skill activities that may help your child to develop good soft motor skills and develop good writing skills as they grow older.

Rolling play dough into tiny balls using the palms of the hands facing each other and using only the finger tips.

Cut out shapes from cardboard (circle, square, etc.) and let your child trace them.

Using toothpicks to make designs in play dough.

Give your preschooler pair of tweezers. Provide two bowls with small items. Challenge them to get all the items from one bowl to another using only the tweezers.

Tearing newspaper into strips and then crumpling them into balls.

Lacing and sewing activities such as stringing beads.

Using eye droppers to “pick up” water.

Play with Legos, miniature cars, small blocks, action figures, and other small toys.

Working puzzles

Rolling small balls out of tissue paper, then gluing the balls onto construction paper to form pictures or designs.

Scissor activities 

Gross motor activities: Wheelbarrow walking, crab walking.

Clapping games 

Connect the dots activities

Trace around stencils

Work on a chalkboard

Paint at an easel

Make crafts using scissors and gluing

Finger painting

Tying bows or tying shoes

Allahualam, insyallah.