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Skills Index

What makes our activity kits so imporant? How will they help your child ?

Come read all the brilliant skills a child  will develop with our activity kits. As a parent, we all want to give our children a good foundation and set them off on the right track. This is the exact place for you!

Here is an extensive list of all the skills that can be developed when using our activities.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS:

  • Sensory exploration: Activities that encourage learning, discovery and exploration through stimulation of the different senses like touch, smell, taste, movement, sight and hearing.
  • Grasp and release: The ability to pick up items with precision and release accurately. For eg: picking up and placing a blocks, picking up pom-poms, googly eyes and other small objects.
  • Pincer grip: This is the ability to pick up small items using the tips of the thumb and index finger.
  • Pre-scissor skills: These are a group of skills that are all needed to be developed before a child is properly ready to use scissors effectively. They include hand and arm strength and grip strength.
  • Hand eye coordination and control: This is the ability to use the eyes to guide the hands in movement effectively.
  • Pre -Writing skills: This covers a wide variety of skills that are all needed to be developed before a child is properly ready to start learning handwriting. Some of these include hand and arm strength, thumb opposition, tripod grasp, bilateral coordination, finger isolation, visual-motor integration.
  • Spatial Awareness skills: An understanding of oneself in space, as well as the objects in that space in relation to oneself.

VISUAL PERCEPTION SKILLS:

  • Visual scanning and tracking: The ability to use the eyes to effectively and systematically search and/or follow something in the visual field. For eg : read a line of text, follow a moving object.
  • Visual discrimination: The ability to see small differences between objects and pictures. For eg: seeing the difference between pictures while matching, differentiating pieces while solving puzzles, etc.
  • Visual Memory: The ability to remember or recall information such as activities, pictures or words that have been viewed in the past.
  • Visual closure: The ability to visualise a whole picture and to make sense of something when seeing only parts of a whole or a partial picture. For eg: Matching a zoomed in part to whole picture.
  • Visual figure ground: The ability to pick out something against a busy background. For eg: finding an object in a busy picture or identify words within a paragraph.

COGNITIVE SKILLS:

  • Concentration: The ability to focus one’s attention and energy on a given task.
    • Sorting and organisation: Separating or arranging items in given groups and or according to common properties.
      • Colour recognition: Being able to identify and name the basic colours.
        • Shape recognition: The ability to recognise, identify and name basic shapes.
          • Matching: Placing items together with similar properties or characteristics such as colour; size, shape or texture.
            • Copying: To imitate or reproduce something original, such as a pattern; picture; shapes or letters.
              • Sequencing: Noticing repetition in a certain order by size, shape or colour, continuing the sequence with the same rule.
              • Letter recognition: The ability to recognise, identify and name the alphabets from A to Z.
              • Language and vocabulary: Building a set of words either single words, phrases or chunks of several words which convey a particular meaning, that are useful in everyday life. Develops the knowledge of how to use the spoken word.
              • Reading skills: Familiarity with letters and their sounds. Identifying letters in written text, especially the first sound of a word. The skills include comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and sentence construction.
              • Writing skills: Developemnt of punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence structure,paragraph structure, compostion and comprehension.
              • Number recognition and Counting: The ability to recognise, identify and name the basic numbers. Counting items in one-to-one correspondence, or assigning a number to each item.
              • Mathematical skills: Number sense, spatial sense, estimation, calculation of amounts and sizes, arithmetic calculations.

              LIFE SKILLS:

              • Patience and perseverance: Continuing with a task, even though it may be difficult, without complaint and completing it successfully.
              • Logical Thinking and Reasoning: The ability to think in a disciplined manner or base his thoughts on facts and evidence is known as his logical thinking.
              • Creativity and imagination: Imagining, trying new ways of doing things, and experimenting. Creative thinking includes analysis, open-mindedness, problem-solving and communication.
              • Communication: Effective communication skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing.
              • Problem solving: The process of finding a solution to a given problem by working through each step independently.
              • Critical Thinking: The skill includes observation, analysis,evaluation, problem-solving and decision making.