Colorful connections!

Max measured his chain, and was happy to announce it was longer than him!

Over the past two weeks, the Unicorn class has been hard at work with the link connectors in our classroom!  We have multiple sets of hard plastic chain connectors and softer colorful rings that our students have been using to create chains of all different sizes.  These connectors are a great facilitator of development in the fine motor skills of our three year olds.  Fine motor activities encourage the development of eye-hand coordination and help children practice the skills required to handle or manipulate small objects with their fingers.  Additionally, our students have begun to create patterns with the colors and have been able to recreate patterns we provide for them. Patterning is an essential skill in early learning, particularly in the development of spatial awareness, sequencing and ordering, comparison and classification and of course, it is a lot of fun too!