Graphomotricity: five movements affecting writing and five activities for a week.

Five fun activities to make the transition from body to notebook, from movement to writing, to be proposed in five days.

 

 

 

Graphomotricity: five movements that influence writing.

 

 

 

 

The five movements that help boys and girls to properly manage the sheet space of a notebook with squares of one centimeter, are as follows: high-low, full-empty, horizontal-vertical, circularity and diagonality.

 

Having children experience these five movements through the body, before proposing activities of pregraphics on the table, helps them to master more confidently the movement of the hand and thought.

 

Here are five motor games to propose in five days of activity.

 

 

 

 

High-low movement, a motor game/fairy tale to experiment: activities for Monday.

 

 

 

 

Many of the letters in the alphabet are correctly written up-down, but if you stop to watch a child write spontaneously, you almost always find that he or she instinctively follows the high down direction.

 

The use of this mode makes it much more complicated, later, to learn to write in italics.

 

In order for children to improve this aspect and focus on the correct movement of the hand, you can propose motor games that reproduce repeatedly and intentionally the high low movement.

 

You can start from the simple game full-empty bag, in all its variations, or you can propose motor activities, narrating and implicitly asking children to reproduce some movements.

 

I usually use the story of the gnomes who lived in a distant country and had to look for a treasure, they had to climb the mountain and only after having encountered a thousand obstacles (which made them go up and down), after much road, they found what they were looking for.

 

For this type of narration, the use of the slide can be very useful and it is important, while narrating, to place emphasis whenever children are asked to make the movement that interests us.

 

 

The notebook may contain:

 

 

 

• Lines of different sizes to be drawn from top to bottom.

 

 

 

 

Full empty movement: activities for Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the floor of the gym is made of square tiles, it will be very easy to use it as a "notebook page", proposing to children to jump alternately one tile and one tile.

 

Each jump will be accompanied by the verbal indications of the companions: YES for the full tile, in which you jump and NO for the empty tile, which is skipped.

 

The same game can be proposed with variations, using bricks and/ or circles: you touch walking a brick yes and one no, you jump in a circle and climb over the next.

 

In fact, children love to play this game even on their own and it often happens that they put it into action when moving between the various spaces, so it will be simple and fun for them to play full-empty.

 

 

 

The notebook may contain:

 

 

 

• Alternating coloring of a square yes and one no.
• Alternating coloring of one line yes and one no.

 

 

 

 

Horizontal vertical movement: activities for Wednesday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I propose a game that alternates horizontal and vertical movement, using the floor, a wall and music.

 

This game can be played with the help of a musical piece or by using a simple instrument.

 

We plan on the floor of the gym a linear path that the children will have to walk together in a row.

 

The course can be traced with adhesive tape or it can be built with gym material such as bricks, sticks or other.

 

On the wall we will hang one or more large sheets to allow each child to have his own space to write.

 

When the teacher plays, the children walk on the floor following the established path; When the music stops, the children go to the wall and with a marker draw a vertical line from top to bottom on the sheet.

 

When the music starts again.

 

To make the game more fun you can vary the speed of sound and movements, introducing the concept of fast-slow, as well as stop and go.

 

 

 

The notebook may contain:

 

 

 

• Vertical stripes with dots to review.
• Vertical lines to be drawn independently by joining two points.
• Horizontal lines with dots to review.
• Horizontal lines to be drawn independently by joining two points.

 

 

 

 

Circular movement: activities for Thursday.

 

 

 

 

For circular movement, all the games to be done in a circle are fine, not only the traditional games but also those with the use of parachutes, circles or other gym material.

 

In addition, to emphasize the importance of starting from above when drawing a circle, you can use the activity of having children’s bodies drawn in full size on sheets of wrapping paper.

 

Each one, in pairs, will draw the silhouette of a companion and will then be drawn in turn.

 

Once completed the silhouettes, which can also be colored perhaps with tempera, everyone will be asked to draw more ovals around the drawn body, always starting from the head, descending towards the feet and then rising.

 

This will help us to focus our attention and mentally visualize the movement back and forth: up and down and then up again.

 

 

 

The notebook may contain:

 

 

 

• Simple circles from a square, drawn in the right direction.

 

 

 

 

Diagonal movement: activities for Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Place diagonal strips on the floor with adhesive tape and ask children to walk through them with different gait:

 

Walking on the stripes

 

Walking sideways over the stripes

 

Jumping to the left and right of the stripes

 

Jumping left and right of the strips and moving an object to the opposite side of where we are.

 

 

 

The notebook may contain:

 

 

 

• Diagonal lines with dots to be reworked.
• Diagonal lines to be drawn independently joining two points.                                                                                     Designed by Freepik