{"id":812,"date":"2020-05-08T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/?p=812"},"modified":"2020-05-07T23:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:16:06","slug":"fun-time-friday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/05\/08\/fun-time-friday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Time Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is the 4th edition of <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><em><strong>OT Friday Fun<\/strong>\u00a0Fine Motor Newsletter<\/em>.<\/span> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"> This newsletter <\/span>has some great activities to help increase finger strength, object manipulation, pinch skills, etc.  It includes the use of some of the tools we have used for more fun activities.  It gives suggestions for alternative activities if you don&#8217;t have printer as listed here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Have the student move items into a cup by pinching them with tweezers or clothespins.<br>\u2022 On the apple and pencil worksheets, have the student point to the correct answer.  (I displayed those pages below for easier access.)<br>\u2022 Have the student open and close a clothespin by pinching it 10 times using their index finger, middle finger, and thumb. This promotes their fine motor skills, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newsletter also has ways to incorporate handwriting in the activity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Have the student write their name on the back of each card.<br>\u2022 Write about what the student would do if they found the end of a rainbow.<br>\u2022 Copy sentences or words about the different colors of apples or pencils shown on the cards.<br>\u2022 Write about what the student would do if they blew a giant bubble with bubble gum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/OT-Friday-Fun-Fine-Motor-Newsletter_4.pdf\">OT-Friday-Fun-Fine-Motor-Newsletter_4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/OT-Friday-Fun-Fine-Motor-Newsletter_4.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-24.png 514w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-24-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-25.png 514w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/05\/image-25-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the 4th edition of OT Friday Fun\u00a0Fine Motor Newsletter. This newsletter has some great activities to help increase finger strength, object manipulation, pinch skills, etc. It includes the use of some of the tools we have used for more fun activities. It gives suggestions for alternative activities if you don&#8217;t have printer as&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/05\/08\/fun-time-friday-4\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}