3 Ways Miss Sue's Teaches Motor Skills

One of the most important skills your child will learn during their early education years are motor skills. Being used in a variety of daily activities such as turning a doorknob or twisting a key, motor skills will help spark their independence — and at Miss Sue’s, that’s an easy feat to accomplish. If you’re curious as to how our team ignites this spark, well, it’s quite simple:

Way 1: Using Modeling Clay

Looking back on your childhood, do you remember playing with modeling clay quite often? Besides being a fun, imaginative medium to express your creativity, this clay also helps build motor skills. In our curriculum at Miss Sue’s, we place a great emphasis on craft time, by providing our students with non-toxic modeling clay to not only bring their imagination to life, but to continue building their motor skills — since the clay requires students to use their hands to create various shapes and patterns with the modeling clay.

Way 2: Build With Building Blocks

Another way we help our students enhance their motor skills is by working with building blocks. Just like modeling clay, building blocks not only create incredible structures — but they also build your child’s motor skills, too. In addition to fine tuning these essential skills, building blocks also develop problem solving and mathematical skills when students are constructing their masterpieces. At Miss Sue’s, we provide our students with building blocks to help them build a city/town they envision, while enhancing their motor skills!

Way 3: Arts & Crafts

The biggest staple of helping children develop motor skills is through arts and crafts. From painting a picture to creating a beaded bracelet, art not only helps students discover their creativity, but also also creates a platform for students to take their motor skills and transcend to new levels! At Miss Sue’s we believe that arts and crafts is an essential part of our program, because it’s a surefire way to help students to not only implement their motor skills but to also express their creative voices to the world!

At Miss Sue’s Nursery School, our prime educational goal is the development of the whole child — socially, emotionally, physically and educationally. A multi-sensory, holistic approach to learning is provided through play, art, music and physical activities. To learn more about the school and give your child the best pre-k experience, give us a call at 516-938-0894.