Pencils

Yesterday during the launch of Work On Writing one of the students brought up fine motor skills.  They suggested that we will be working on writing to make our writing neater.  I decided to take that moment to show a neat trick I learned, thanks to Pinterest, that will help them hold their pencils correctly.

We began by folding a piece of tissue in to small rectangle.

We placed that small rectangle on our hand and clinched it with our last three fingers.

We were left with our index finger and thumb to hold our pencil.  Voila!  As long as we hold on to the tissue then we can only use our index finger and thumb to hold our pencil.