Preschoolers Physical Development

Fine motor skills refers to:

• The smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands, fingers, feet and toes.

• The smaller actions performed like picking up objects between the thumb and finger

• The coordination of small muscles, in movements - with the eyes.

• All of the above

Gross motor skills refers to:

• Being large and fully developed

• The awkward and unattractive movements the body makes

• Whole Body movements which involves the large muscles of the body to perform everyday functions

• Whole Body movements that requires the full attention of the person implementing them

An activity that involves fine motor skills is:

• stringing beads

• balancing on a beam

• jumping rope

• reading

True or False? All FIVE year olds should be able to tie their own shoe laces?

Which skills is the child in this picture demonstrating?

• Fine motor Skills

• All forms of physical development - fine motor, gross motor and eye-hand co-ordination

• Gross motor and eye-hand coordination

• Gross motor development

Fine motor skills can NOT be practiced with

• tweezers

• monkey bars

• scissors

• clay

TRUE or FALSE? Feeding yourself requires the use of Fine Motor skills?

The picture here shows the child using:

• Fine and Gross motor skills

• Fine motor and eye-hand coordination

• Gross motor skills

• Fine motor skills

Which of the following skills would you expect a FIVE year old to be able to do on their own?

• Feed themselves, do up a zipper, jump on the spot, climb at least 10 stairs

• Jump rope for 1 minute, run in a circle for 5 minutes and lay still for 10 minutes

• Colour in a picture without going outside the lines, cut along a straight line using a pair of scissors

• Play an instrument, do cross-stitch and ride a skate board

Gross motor skills can NOT be practiced with:

• Monkey Bars

• Riding a Bike

• Jumping skipping rope

• Cutting with scissors