Cutting Lines with Moe

Description

This Cutting Skills Packet was created to support distance learning through engagement with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Home Safari Program.

In this packet, you’ll find a fact summary about sloths and 13 worksheets that reinforce parts of the content while addressing the skills of snipping, cutting short lines, cutting 4″ lines, cutting 6″ lines, and cutting 8″ lines.

Each page has varying amounts of visual cues, depending on your student’s needs. Hopefully they will progress to requiring fewer and fewer visual cues as they develop their cutting skills, as well as their overall visual motor skills.

TIP FOR USE >> Until further mastery, your student will have better success if pages are printed on cardstock. If you don’t have time to change out the paper or don’t have access to cardstock, no problem! When I don’t have the option for cardstock readily available, I keep a stapler at my therapy table and quickly staple the pages to pieces of construction paper. The construction paper is at least thicker than regular copy paper!

As a school-based occupational therapist, I provide a list of cutting tips at the beginning of the cutting packet to ensure that the students you work with develop a correct scissor grasp and proper cutting skills that will support the development of their visual motor skills.

Please, please, please… let me know what you think! I’d love your feedback. Also, please share pictures of your students’ learning-in-action by tagging @ColorfullyEnthused and using the hashtag #thecolorfullyenthusedOT *

* DO NOT SHARE COPIES OR ATTACHMENTS OF THESE WORKSHEETS *

Thank you and enjoy!