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Nursery Swimming Fish Tracks: Pre-Writing Mats

Children follow straight, wavy, zigzag and loopy tracks to help a fish swim to the coral. • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 2 mats with 4 swimming tracks. Linked to Development Matters for three and four-year-olds. Print-ready PDF.

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Swimming Fish Tracks: pre-writing path mats. Four swimming tracks lead a fish to the coral: straight, wavy, zigzag and loopy. Children follow them with a finger, a pen or a toy fish. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 2 mats with 4 swimming tracks. Ideas for using it: • Swim it: Swim a toy fish along each track to the coral. • Pen tracks: Follow the dotted tracks with a pen. • Playdough tracks: Lay playdough snakes along the tracks. • Water tracks: Paint the tracks outside with water and a brush. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils. • Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.Read more

Swimming Fish Tracks: pre-writing path mats. Four swimming tracks lead a fish to the coral: straight, wavy, zigzag and loopy. Children follow them with a finger, a pen or a toy fish. What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • 2 mats with 4 swimming tracks. Ideas for using it: • Swim it: Swim a toy fish along each track to the coral. • Pen tracks: Follow the dotted tracks with a pen. • Playdough tracks: Lay playdough snakes along the tracks. • Water tracks: Paint the tracks outside with water and a brush. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils. • Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.

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