Pencil grip
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KIM: Haha! Yes Max! Ice cream! Wish I'd thought of that.
MAX: Teeth
KIM: Oh good idea Max. Oh spindles. I'm not very good at drawing teeth. I think I need help holding my pencil.
MAX: Hold your ice cream. Don't crush your cone!
KIM: Ice cream cone? Max, did you search the right thing?
MAX: Point your finger and thumb.
KIM: point鈥
MAX: Put your pencil on top.
KIM: pencil鈥
MAX: Pinch it!
KIM: Pinch it. So point. Pencil. Pinch! Hey this feels good.
MAX: Congratulations. You now know the tripod grip.
KIM: OK Max. Let's give this tripod grip a go. Wow! Its works! Best drawing ever!
Finger exercises song
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Exercise to help scribbling!
Follow me, fingers wiggling!
WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE
Hands together, rub them fast,
Nice and toasty, warm at last!
RUB RUB RUB
With your hands, make the shape,
Of quacking ducks, on a lake.
QUACK QUACK QUACK
Show your claws, like a bear,
Open and close, cause a scare.
RAR RAR RAR
Peek through your hands, in this way,
Watching birds, far away.
TWEET TWEET TWEET
Now clap your hands
Wasn鈥檛 that FUN!
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Relax those fingers,
We鈥檙e all done!
Practise: Tripod grip
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Ice-cream, point, pencil, pinch!
Ice-cream, point, pencil, pinch!
Ice-cream, point, pencil, pinch!
Ice-cream, point, pencil, pinch!
Activity: Colouring
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Play Bud's Number Garden game. game
Practise recognising numbers, counting, ordering and sequencing numbers
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