{"id":248,"date":"2020-06-04T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-06-04T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:50:35","slug":"fine-motor-activity-pulling-leaves-from-a-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/2020\/06\/04\/fine-motor-activity-pulling-leaves-from-a-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Motor Activity: Pulling Leaves from A Stem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YCJXW43oloo&#038;t=1s\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color\">Puling small leaves from the stem of a plant is a great fine motor activity. Students will work on their finger coordination skills, strengthening the muscles of the hand, and using their thumb and pointer finger to create a pincer grasp. Encourage your student to make a &#8220;finish pile.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color\">Encourage your student to use her or his non-dominant hand to hold the stem while s\/he uses the dominant hand to pull the leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color\">Use the leaves to create shape outlines, or draw a shape, letter, or number in chalk and have your student place the leaves along the lines to work on visual perceptual skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puling small leaves from the stem of a plant is a great fine motor activity. Students will work on their finger coordination skills, strengthening the muscles of the hand, and using their thumb and pointer finger to create a pincer grasp. Encourage your student to make a &#8220;finish pile.&#8221; Encourage your student to use her or his non-dominant hand to hold the stem while s\/he uses the dominant hand to pull the leaves. Use the leaves to create shape outlines, or draw a shape, letter, or number in chalk and have your student place the leaves along the lines to work on visual perceptual skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilateral-coordination","category-visual-perceptual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dandroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}