Many people don't realize that strong finger and hand muscles are one of the most important parts of preparing young children to be writers. Strong hands enable children to do the extended writing tasks of the elementary school years. Time spent in developing these hand and finger muscles reward us with coordinated movements.Today the Shemesh children showed their hand and finger strength as they picked corn kernels off of colorful cobs of dried corn. Vika demonstrated, "You use your fingers like this! It's hard!" Rose watched, and then used her thumb to carefully push the kernel from it's spot on the cob. Grayden and Vika were on a mission to finish the whole cob! What dedication!
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