By Adeseluka Tolulope
Motor skill is a learned ability to cause a predetermined movement outcome with maximum certainty, there are two different types of motor skills which are, gross motor skill ( large muscles ) and fine motor skills ( small muscles).
Gross motor skill is the ability of a child to make use of his legs and toes effectively examples of gross motor skill are running, climbing, crawling, while fine motor skill is the ability of a child to make use of his thumb and fingers effectively. Examples are writing, picking, drawing etc.
Children motor skills during this lockdown can be improved through the following ways
1.Provide enable environment dat will allow them to play. Play like jumping, running, skipping, hind and seek play with adequate supervision etc all these will improve there motor skills
2. Provide them materials like pencil, eraser, crayon etc and engage them in writing and drawing by doing this there small muscles will be free and easy to manipulate. Also with adequate supervision
3. Do close interaction with them cus doing dis interactions they tends to move there body part and this will make there body healthy and absolutely fit.
4. Give them balanced diet. Junks are not balanced diet they are supplement. Do you know that water is part of balanced diet, which means give ur children enough water to drink.
5. Adequate rest. When they have observe all these protocol, allow them to rest.
So, with these little tips am sure you can help your children to improve there motor skills and make them fit and healthy.
The importance of gross and fine motor skills fitness are as follows.
1. It will allow them to stay healthy which have mentioned earlier
2. It burn fat away from there body
3. It will allow them to have confidence in doing things
4. It increase there intellectual ability
5. It increase there social and interacting skill.
With these am sure you can understand what motor skills means and am sure as from today u will start engaging ur children in it.
Adeseluka Tolulope Tomiwa is a 300L student of Adekunle Ajasin university from the department of Early childhood education.
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