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I offer these free teacher resources out of my admiration and respect for teachers, who carry a huge workload and also have to find ways to help the special needs children and struggling learners in their classes. They are aimed at preschool, kindergarten and early elementary teachers, but homeschool moms may find them helpful too!

pencil grasp These resources arise from requests made and needs identified by teachers who have contacted me. I hope to add more teacher-focused pages to this site as it grows, and I will try and respond to needs identified by the teachers themselves, so please feel free to contact me to add your wish-list or feedback!

It is my hope that teachers all over the world will find these pages helpful, which will enable more children to be the best they can be!

Handouts For Parents

For parent/teacher meetings, or parent seminars, you may find these printable handouts useful. They contain some basic information helpful to parents, and direct them to specific pages on this website where they can find relevant activities.

Gross Motor Exercises for the Classroom

This OT Mom page on Gross Motor Exercises contains links to free printable PDF's to give you quick and easy basic desk exercises and mat exercises to improve kids' school skills. Whether you are a homeschooling mom or a teacher of 35 kids, these exercises will be useful in your classroom.

Teachers' Tips and Questions

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Coins for Fine Motor Skills  We put coins into a money bank as a fine motor activity. I bought a little wood bank with a nice key, and some coins from Oriental Trading company. This ...

Fine Motor Activity for
Spring Theme
  For Spring Theme this year, we brought in some branches and the children used 'scrunchies' to make bare branches bloom. This was a great fine motor activity....

Gross Motor Activities for PE Class and Classroom  I want to find specific gross motor activities to integrate in physical education classes as well as classroom for k-2 children with core strength and ...

Are pencil grips ok or not?  I recently spent six hours at a symposium on ADHD and dyslexia - the lecturer mentioned she 'uses pencil grips' for all their children with pencil grasp ...

Why do we see so many postural problems?  I am a teacher and your articles, particularly the essential bases for fine motor development helped clarify for me just which gross motor skills support ...

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