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Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport published research on 92, three to five year old children to establish a link between early visual-motor integration skills and executive function and a link between early object manipulation skills and social behaviors in the classroom during the preschool years. Each participant was evaluated for visual-motor integration skills, object manipulation skills, executive function, and social behaviors in the fall and spring of the preschool year. The results indicated the following: children who had better visual-motor integration skills in the fall had better executive function scores in the spring of the preschool year after controlling for age, gender, Head Start status, and site location, but not after controlling for children’s baseline levels of executive function. children who demonstrated better object manipulation skills in the fall showed significantly stronger social behavior in their classrooms (as rated by teachers) in the spring, including more self-control, more cooperation, and less externalizing/hyperactivity after controlling for social behavior in the fall and other covariates. The researchers concluded that children’s visual-motor integration and object manipulation skills in the fall have modest to moderate relations with executive function and social behaviors later in the preschool year. Reference: MacDonald, M., Lipscomb, S., McClelland, M. M., Duncan, R., Becker, D., Anderson, K., & Kile, M. (2016). Relations of Preschoolers’ Visual-Motor and Object Manipulation Skills With Executive Function and Social Behavior. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1-12. Teaching Catching, Throwing and Kicking Skills is loaded with information to help children learn object manipulation skills. It is in PDF format and in Word (therefore you can edit the pages). This packet includes the age progression of each skill, visual picture cards with step by step directions, tips on teaching the skills, letter home to parents regarding teaching the skills, different ways to practice the skill and data collection to track progress. The activities are reproducible to use over and over again with all the children that you teach. FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION. The post Link Between Visual Motor, Object Manipulation Skills, Executive Function and Social Behavior appeared first on Your Therapy Source.

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I just wanted to remind everyone that I will be on a blogging vacation until January 6th. I have some roundups that I wanted to share with you in the time I will be off and then on January 6th, I will be back with some fun new series and crafts! I wish a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours! Dex is finally getting interested in sorting, stacking (not just knocking down) and doing things with me. Now that he's almost 2 (OMG when did that happen) I have been doing some research on some little things that him and I can do together. I put together a quick little roundup with 6 ideas for "busy boxes" that I can start him on and leave him to his own to do. I thought I would share with you! Color sorting by The Princess and the Tot Sticky pipe cleaners by Andrea Dekker Felt Dot Cards by Toddler Toddler Shape matching by Diapers to Diplomas Geo board by It's Only Just Begun Sponge blocks by Toddler Approved

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I've made a few quiet books out of felt for some friends as baby gifts. I've got to find all the pictures, but here is the first set I just ran across. This one was made for a little boy who's daddy is a firefighter and mom is Hawaiian, so the pages were very tailored towards these two themes. Open me up! Fireman to the rescue! Up goes the ladder. Put the fire out, hurry! Private Cabana for one... Jump in the hammock and take a snooze. How many coconuts are there? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Day at the beach, pack the beach bag. Surfs up! Let's play ball! Put the umbrella up and block the sun. Learn some facial expressions. Happy, Sad, Silly, and Wink. Learning to tie my shoe. Match the shapes. Tiki, slippas, pineapple, and turtle. All the shapes I cut freehand. I put onto cardboard templates first, then traced them onto the felt and cut. Each page is actually two sheets of felt, so that I could sew one page at a time then assemble after. It was all machine stitched with a velcro closure. This was the third one I've done, but the first that I attached the loose items with thin gold rope. I liked the way it turned out and plan to do it again. I just used binder rings to hold all the pages together. Hope you enjoy! ~nic I found a few more! I happen to run across a random jump drive lying around and low and behold, it has pictures of two more of my quiet books. One I made for some long time friends of ours who had a boy and daddy happens to be a DJ as well. His wife works for Apple and I couldn't pass either one of those theme ideas up. Again, everything was hand drawn, hand cut, some hand sewn, most machine sewn and customized to fit. I hope you enjoy this one! Count the beads and match your numbers. What starts with A, B, C? Apple, Beach Ball, Carrot! Tie and untie, really a given in any child's quiet book. Lift a flap and see what's underneath. Doggie, Whale, Chick Custom page of a DJ turntable, headphones and record box with records. Button the records onto the turntable and spin! Going to the circus, unzip the flap and come inside. Which animals are going to perform? The horse, giraffe and elephant! Unbuckle the toy box to find the cars. Watch out! Don't crash! Match your shapes and colors. Made by me! ~nic Finally! I found one of my two girl quiet books I've made. I LOVE this one! I love the vibrant back ground page color and all the girlie fun it has. This one was also made for some dear friends of ours who's little girl was turning one. My hubby and I went to the birthday party and I just love it when the grandma's are there and can remember their quiet books or ones that they made for another grandchild. That happened at this party and it just tickled me pink! This one, I didn't really have a "theme" in mind, just very girly and fun vibrant colors. (Again, all hand drawn, hand made, hand stitched, machine sewn.) Circus tent! I really like this page and it has become a staple in my books. There are so many possibilities you can do for the tent itself. The animals, giraffe, elephant and horse. I do need to work on adding some different animals. Lift a flap page. A butterfly, dragonfly and ladybug. Flower pot, pick a flower! Let's go for a picnic! I can make you a yummy lunch of... Ham sandwich with cheese and tomato, grapes, strawberrys and a cup of tea! Tie your shoe little one! You can undo my hair ribbon and braid my hair. Or unsnap my purse and get my hairbrush, comb and mirror. Nice and gentle, please! Shape and color matching. Hope you liked this one too! I know "Little Flower" did. : ) ~nic Peyton's book: Open the barn doors and feed the horses some hay. Learn your ABC's Count from 1 to 10 My first touch and feel page! Some ribbed, some satin and a little terry cloth. Peyton's daddy is from Texas, and the family has lots of Texas pride. Peyton really loves the garbage man, hence the garbage and following trash can page. Tie your shoe! This was also the first book that I added handles to. I love the way they turned out. Hope you enjoy it, Peyton! ~nic Baby Lee's book This is the first book that I made an actual cloth binding. For my first time, I'm happy with the way it turned out, but I learned somethings and will make the changes with the next one. It's a sweet shop! Ice cream, cupcake or chocolate cake...yum! My newest versions, on my Etsy shop! I'm so excited! These were made for "The Muppets" (nicknamed by their parents). They are little boy twins that happen to live down the street from me. I'm so thrilled to be able to make them these books. I made them half the size, 8x9". My normal books are 9x12. Check them out: ~nic

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