FM.F.85 IMITATES CIRCULAR SCRIBBLE
This skill is the very beginning of drawing circles. It can be lots of fun to do!
How to Assess
Materials: Thick crayons and paper.
Method: Say ‘I’m going to draw round and round’. Demonstrate, going round and round several times in a large circle. Give the crayon to your child, saying ‘Now you do it’. Give 3 tries.
Score plus if your child makes a large, rounded, continuous pattern on the paper in 2 out of the 3 tries.
How to Teach
Work through the following steps to determine your starting point.
- Makes circular movement with demonstration, verbal help and physical help. To help your child verbally, say ‘round and round’ as you draw. To help him physically, use both or either of the following methods: (1) Guide him gently from wrist or upper arm in a circular movement, and/or (2) Cut out a large circle from a sheet of thick cardboard to make a template. Place it over your drawing paper, and show your child how to trace round and round inside the cut-out shape.
- Makes circular movement with demonstration and verbal help only. Keep saying ‘round and round’ but reduce the amount of physical help you give him until he needs none at all.
- Makes circular movement with demonstration only, as in the main objective. Just say ‘round and round’ the first time you do it in any session. Then stop saying it altogether.
Playtime and Round-the-house Activities
Going ‘round and round’ is great fun with finger paint, chalk, Textas – all kinds of drawing materials.
Help your child to trace with his finger all the round things you come across in the house – the rim of a bowl, the plug hole, the bottom of a bucket, the wheel of a bike and so on.
Remembering and Extending
This skill will be directly extended in FM.F.89, but going round and round can still continue for its own sake in creative drawing, and in imitation games where different lines and shapes are interspersed.