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Practice drawing shapes for kindergarten9/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Preschool Shapes WorksheetsĮven from an early age, kids recognize differences in objects and their shapes. These worksheets include so many fun activities to color, learn shapes, and follow directions. ![]() Kids focus on the little details more and tend to memorize how the shapes compare to each other. One of the benefits to learn various shapes is to help them differentiate between objects. ![]() Learning shapes have so many benefits for your toddlers and preschoolers. If you are looking for more fun with shapes try our Shape of the Week Program. They contain shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, and more complex shapes, such as stars, trapezoids, hearts, ovals diamonds, and more. It sounds like you are a concerned mom who wants the best for her son, and you are taking all the right steps to help him! Hang in there, and work on the underlying skills, and in a few months he should be much better at writing and drawing on paper.12 FREE shape worksheets for Kindergarten! Students will have a TON of FUN while they build their knowledge of tracing, matching, spatial awareness, and shape identification with these delightful worksheets. So try some activities for crossing the midline as well. It may just be that his hands are tiring with his weak hand muscles, or it may be a midline crossing issue. I would also make sure his midline crossing is good to help eliminate his swapping hands with activities. Check out these easy shoulder exercises for kids that you can do at home, as well as core exercises. Kids with fine motor delays usually struggle with poor shoulder and core stability. Riding a bike is a great exercise, but kids also need to develop their shoulder and core muscles, as bike riding focuses more on the lower body. You can find the links to lots of photographed Fine Motor Activities on this page of my site. Then, to help with his fine motor skills, I would take a huge step back from anything to do with a crayon and paper, and work on developing hand strength (lots of scissor cutting and playdough) as well as hand and finger exercises with fun activities. I would recommend that you start with patterns and simple shape pictures (triangles, circles, squares to make houses, rockets etc) - you draw the outline in chalk or whatever and let him trace over and over to get the hang of the actual formations. Try to not work on paper with crayons for a while. (Read my article about this.) That article will give you ideas for fun ways of getting your son to practice letters and numbers without stressing over pencil-and-paper work. To help your son learn to draw and write, you would need to separate the 2 areas of fine motor skills and learning to form the letters. If they did not do the test, I wonder if you could request that the test be done? I am glad you had your son tested - that helps us to know exactly where the problem is, or isn't.ĭid he score okay on the test of visual-motor integration? Because that is one area that came to mind as I read about your son's difficulties. Any advice or am I just over worrying? I am doing worksheets and having him hold his crayons correctly everyday now.Ĭomments for My son can't draw or write well! He is great at riding bikes and in fact races so it really is just his fine motor skills. They gave me some helpful advice but I really am worried. Since he did well in the other areas they won't do anything. He tested above where he should be in all areas but he was way behind in his fine motor skills. I had him tested with the school's early development center. I'm worried he will be so far behind or labeled as not smart. I would do all the test to see which Hand he would start with and he would use his left one day then his right the next. I am making him use his right hand now since he was using both 50/50. I don't know if he is just not able to focus on what he is doing or what. However drawing the shapes or anything looks like a 2-3 year old. ![]() My 5 year old son can tell you his birth-date, the abc's, count to twenty and tell you all the shapes. ![]()
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