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Cutting with scissors — Take-Home — Pre-K Opens and closes safety scissors with one hand and snips across a strip of paper. This one-page Pre-K take-home carries the two-minute check that tells you whether the skill is wobbly, then "Snip Soup" — 10 minutes with safety scissors, junk mail or card strips, a bowl — plus what to say when it…
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Cutting with scissors LITERACY · PRE-K Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Writing · Pre-K 10 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Opens and closes safety scissors with one hand and snips across a strip of paper. For the grown-up: say every prompt out loud. Nothing on this sheet asks the child to read or write. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK Hand them safety scissors and a stiff strip of paper. "Can you snip it?" A SOLID ANSWER One or two real snips, thumb up, elbow tucked in. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 SNIP SOUP You need: Safety scissors, Junk mail or card strips, A bowl Cut strips of stiff paper about two fingers wide. Thin paper folds, card cuts. Say "thumbs up" and check their thumb points at the ceiling. This one cue fixes most problems. You hold the strip, they snip. Snips fall in the bowl — that's the soup. Once snipping is easy, draw a thick line and let them cut along it. Glue the bits onto paper. Cut, then stick — the sticking is what makes them want to cut again. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Thumbs up to the sky. Open… close. You're doing it!" You hold and steady the paper, and they only open and close. Loop scissors help a lot if regular ones defeat them. Cut along a curved line, then around a simple shape. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/pre-k www.littleactivity.com Pre-K · Literacy
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Cutting with scissors LITERACY · PRE-K Name Date TAKE-HOME PRACTICE Writing · Pre-K 10 minutes WHAT THIS BUILDS Opens and closes safety scissors with one hand and snips across a strip of paper. For the grown-up: say every prompt out loud. Nothing on this sheet asks the child to read or write. 1 THE TWO-MINUTE CHECK ASK Hand them safety scissors and a stiff strip of paper. "Can you snip it?" A SOLID ANSWER One or two real snips, thumb up, elbow tucked in. Not yet Getting there Solid 2 SNIP SOUP You need: Safety scissors, Junk mail or card strips, A bowl Cut strips of stiff paper about two fingers wide. Thin paper folds, card cuts. Say "thumbs up" and check their thumb points at the ceiling. This one cue fixes most problems. You hold the strip, they snip. Snips fall in the bowl — that's the soup. Once snipping is easy, draw a thick line and let them cut along it. Glue the bits onto paper. Cut, then stick — the sticking is what makes them want to cut again. SAY THIS WHEN IT STALLS "Thumbs up to the sky. Open… close. You're doing it!" You hold and steady the paper, and they only open and close. Loop scissors help a lot if regular ones defeat them. Cut along a curved line, then around a simple shape. IF IT'S TOO HARD IF IT'S TOO EASY Did it M T W T F Full year of take-homes: www.littleactivity.com/takehome/pre-k www.littleactivity.com Pre-K · Literacy
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