How to tie shoelaces

"enigma" wrote in message
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"bizby40" wrote in
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What I mean is that every class has gym every day. Up
until last year they had gym four days a week -- every day
except "block day" when they had art, music and library.
They've changed it now though, so they have art one day,
music another, library another, Spanish another
and....can't remember what on the fifth day. But they all
have gym every day.
then your school is unusual. in funding cuts, arts & gym in
lower grades are among the first things to go. in many
elementary schools recess is severely curtailed or non-
existant too.
and then people wonder why kids are so squirmy & antsy in
class...

Yes, the more I read this group, the luckier I feel in my school.

Bizby

Chookie wrote:
How the heck do you teach a child to do it? DS1 is 5 1/2 yo. Tried
this morning, again. He couldn't/wouldn't even copy holding the
laces 5cm from the thumb knot (the knot you make to start), let alone
*make* the thumb knot. Fortunately his school shoes have velcro -- a
deliberate choice by me!

At what age do kids typically learn to tie their shoelaces? And how
do you teach it?

My 5.5 year old still can't do this but we don't practice very often,
either, his school shoes fasten with velcro just like 80% of his fellow
preppies. My older children were around 6 and in Year One before they
learnt this skill and one does it the bunny ears way while the other uses
the over-and-around method.

Has anyone mentioned the skipping rope method in this thread? I'm sure I
read about it in this newsgroup or a similar one within the last year or so
and I intend to try it with my son soon. Apparently the thickness of the
rope makes it easier for the child to work out the mechanics of the task
before transferring the method to fiddly little laces and they are supposed
to start with the rope around their waists.

Tai

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:17:05 +1000, Chookie
wrote:

How the heck do you teach a child to do it? DS1 is 5 1/2 yo. Tried this
morning, again. He couldn't/wouldn't even copy holding the laces 5cm from the
thumb knot (the knot you make to start), let alone *make* the thumb knot.
Fortunately his school shoes have velcro -- a deliberate choice by me!

At what age do kids typically learn to tie their shoelaces? And how do you
teach it?

Song that teaches how to tie shoes. Playable with quicktime or
realaudio

http://www.musick8.com/html/current_...6_3&tunenum=13

Pdf file with graphic illustration can be dled he

http://www.musick8.com/html/download...D=151&type=PDF


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