Liam’s teacher has been having me work with small groups of students concentrating on fine motor skills, exercising the muscles in their fingers, which will hopefully help them with their writing and pencil grip. We have done some stringing of beads, practicing their site words in sand, picking up beans with a spoon, etc. This week I taught them how to play marbles. They had SO MUCH fun. What I was in awe of while I was watching them play and laugh and have fun with this very simple game was that these kids don’t know what it is like to live without a laptop, Playstation, and DVD player and yet they were having a blast with marbles. Now, I am not delusional. I know that if given the choice, they probably wouldn’t choose marbles over their Playstation, but it was still fun watching them have so much non-electric fun.
