This is a presentation about motor skills acquisition and development which is considered to be very inportant to prepare writing.

1. Dexterity

2. Fine Motor Skills
 coordination & control of the wrists, fingers and hands
 Help children to be more independent in carrying out
daily activities such as cutting with a pair of scissors
and applying glue on a piece of paper
 Allows children to perform sel-help tasks such as tying
shoelaces and fastening buttons on their clothes

3. Well-developed fine motor skills
will help children to be able to use
 drawing
 writing
 art tools such as pencils, chalks and paintbrushes more
efficiently
will allow children
 to be skilful in using their fingers to create art works

4. Initial stage of fine motor skills development
Children should be given learning opportunities
 to use their hands to carry out different tasks such as
tearing paper, kneading dough and building block
structures
 to gain more confidence in using their hands and
fingers to manipulate objects such as scissors,
shoelaces, zips and button
 to strenghten their hand muscles to be more precise in
performing more complex skills such as cutting and
threading

5. Key Knowledge /skills/ disposition
 Manipulate objects with dexterity
 Use eye-hand coordination to perform fine motor
skills
Important!
 Teachers have the flexibility to provide learning
opportunities based on their children’s abilities,
interests and developmental needs.

6. Children’s learning and
development
look like…
 Manipulate play dough by squeezing , rolling and
kneading into shapes and objects
 Use glue to paste items (e.g. coloured paper, beads,
ice-cream sticks) on paper
 Hold paper with one hand and cut with the other
 Use scissors to cut shapes with straight and curved
lines
 Build structures with blocks

7. Activities of fine motor skills
development
 Kneading dough
 Modeling clay
 Shadow play – use their fingers to perform their stories,
 Finger puppets
 Origami, folding paper
 Preparing picture montage
 Threading beads
 Painting
 Colouring
 Drawing with patterns
 Copying
 Drawing
 10+1 lazy number eight – develop coordination

8. Summary
Motor Skills Development goes beyond helping
children to acquire motor skills. Through
carefully planned and organized activities by the
teachers, children will also develop healthy
habits and fitness, and learn about safety at
home, in kindergarten and at public places.