Tiny tots of pre-primary have just entered into this world three to four years back. When a child of pre-primary enters into the school, the first objective is to help the child to get adjusted to the new environment away from mother and home and not to push him to the world of writing. Instead of push him to write A, B,C.. we need to prepare him to hold the pencil.Before expecting the child to write we need to find out whether the muscles of little fingers are ready to have a firm grasp of the pencil and whether the child has developed eye hand coordination

We believe that unless the fingers of tiny tots have developed to hold a pencil, they should not be asked/forced to write the alphabet or numbers. Each child has her/his own individual pace of learning.

Pre-Writing Skills

Pre-writing skills are the fundamental skills children need to develop before they are able to write. These skills contribute to the child’s ability to hold and use a pencil and ability to draw, write, copy and colour.

Pre-writing skills are essential for the child to be able to develop the ability to hold and move a pencil fluently and effectively and therefore produce legible writing. When these skills are underdeveloped it can lead to frustration and resistance due to the child not being able to produce legible writing or ‘keep up’ in class due to fatigue. This can then result in poor self-esteem and academic performance.

Fine motor skills can also involve the coordination of small muscles and movements of hands, fingers and eyes. Fine motor skills development starts with basic grasps like palmar grasp and then the pincer grasp and eye-hand coordination. In order for mastery in handwriting you need gross motor skills, fine motor skills and visual motor skills to be integrated.

Fine motor skills also affect many other classroom or home activities such as dressing, toileting, feeding, playing and any activity that uses hands.

We give different activities like scribbling on the paper, colouring with crayon, tearing the paper, water play, sand play, threading the beads, clay moulding, buttoning, zipping, lacing, building the blocks, sorting, puzzles etc.