This year our new preschool students started out the year exploring lines. As a vehicle to introduce me, Mr. Harris, to the students and also as a way for me to see who's right handed/left handed and check out motor skills, the students studied different kinds of lines.
Each student started with horizontal lines and then vertical. From there we moved to diagonal, straight, zig zag, wavy, curly, thick, thin, light, dark and broken. Before we knew it the students were just line making machines.
After we explored lines, we practiced using scissors. It's always a challenge to learn something new that as adults, we take for granted. These new friends began to understand which of the handles was for fingers and which was for thumb, how to hold the scissors once you get the fingers in the right spot and finally, most importantly, what scissors are meant to cut and what they are NOT meant to cut. Happily, we ended our art session without any hair, skin or clothes cut today.
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