This week, Year One are focusing on improving our handwriting and ensuring we can hold our pencils effectively when writing or drawing. We need to make sure we have strong muscles on our fingers and one of the best ways to do this is to use small implements to copy patterns.

Our teachers covered our tables in foil, gave us some paint and some cotton buds and set us the challenge of copying and making marks using the paint. We had to use our hand-eye coordination as well as focusing our attention on the job at hand. We had lots of fun trying to copy the patterns accurately and enjoyed using paint and cotton buds to do so.

Some of our other challenges this week will be threading and using beads to improve our fine motor skills, as well as giving paper characters haircuts to help us develop our cutting skills.