Hand Strength, Pressure & Body Awareness
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Theme
Hand Strength, Pressure & Body Awareness
Big Idea
My hands are powerful tools. I can press, roll, squeeze, and sort with growing control and confidence.
Parent Focus
Hand strength and colour/shape vocabulary are chosen together deliberately.
Key Vocabulary
Your Month at a Glance
Week 1
First colours — red and yellow through real object handling
Child reaches for correct basket when red or yellow is named.
Week 2
Completing the four-colour set and first sorting games
Child identifies all 4 colours with some errors.
Week 3
First shapes through tracing, handling, and finding in the environment
Child identifies circle, square, and triangle.
Week 4
Consolidation — combining colour and shape vocabulary
Child uses a colour AND shape word for the same object.
Your Complete Classroom Toolkit
Monthly progression, weekly guides, daily lessons, materials, assessments, and parent communication — organised in one place so your team can teach with clarity and confidence.
Monthly Teaching Plan
A complete month of thoughtfully sequenced learning with clear developmental goals.
Weekly Teaching Guides
Step-by-step weekly plans with learning objectives, outcomes and classroom focus.
Daily Lesson Plans
Ready-to-teach activities that require minimal preparation while maximising learning.
Materials & Classroom Preparation
Everything required for the month organised in one place, including teaching aids, printables and classroom setup.
Assessment & Progress Tracking
Simple observation opportunities and developmental milestones to monitor every child's progress.
Parent Communication
Monthly summaries, home connections and parent-friendly updates ready to share.
International Curriculum Alignment
Built using principles from EYFS, Montessori, Reggio Emilia, HighScope, NCF 2022 and Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
Teacher Support
Planning guidance, preparation notes and classroom tips designed to reduce teacher workload and increase confidence.
Everything has been thoughtfully planned — from long-term curriculum progression to daily classroom activities, assessments, materials and parent communication — so your team can spend less time planning and more time teaching.
What Makes Pebble Different?
Play-Based Learning
Every activity has a developmental purpose.
Minimal Preparation
Designed for busy classrooms with practical, low-preparation activities.
Whole Child Development
Supports cognitive, language, physical, social-emotional and creative growth together.
Teacher First
Built to reduce planning time while improving teaching quality and classroom consistency.
What Your Child Will Learn This Month
Literacy
- 4 primary colours: red, yellow, blue, green. 3 basic shapes: circle, square, triangle. Colour and shape vocabulary embedded in real object handling.
- Child identifies 3 of 4 colours correctly. Child identifies 2 of 3 shapes correctly. Child uses a colour or shape word spontaneously in play.
Numeracy
- Tall and short as comparative concepts. Horizontal length comparison. Building on Month 1 big/small with a new spatial dimension.
- Child selects the taller or shorter of two objects when named. Child begins to use tall and short spontaneously.
Fine Motor
- Clay rolling with palms — bilateral wrist movement. Dal and bean sorting — pincer grip precision. Earbud dot painting — controlled finger use. Horizontal paintbrush strokes — pre-writing direction.
- Child rolls clay with bilateral palms. Child sorts dal using pincer grip. Child makes controlled earbud dots. Child paints horizontal strokes.
Gross Motor
- Crawl to stand transitions. Carrying light objects while walking. Tunnel crawling repeat — mastery session. Low jump and walk sequence (Jump 1 progression).
- Child transitions crawl to stand independently. Child carries object while walking without losing balance. Child crawls tunnel with confidence.
Sensory
- Phase 2 — Pressure, Resistance and Body Awareness. Playdough press and roll. Chana dal pounding. Sponge squeeze and transfer. Clay flatten and tool press. Clay pinch pots.
- Child tolerates and applies deep hand pressure across multiple materials. Child sustains a pressure-based activity for 5+ minutes.
Creative
- Child identifies and names at least 3 of 4 primary colours
- Child identifies and names at least 2 of 3 basic shapes
- Child uses a colour or shape word spontaneously in play
- Child selects the taller or shorter of two objects when named
Well-being
- Emotion expression — naming happy, sad, angry, scared. Gentle touch with peers. Thank you modelled during snack and circle (prompted echo welcome). Quiet time introduction.
- Child names 2 basic emotions. Child practises gentle touch with a peer. Child hears thank you modelled and may echo it when invited.
General Awareness
- Colours and shapes in the world (002 (Colours in the world — colour hunt picture sheet: red, yellow, blue, green in classroom/outdoor scenes; point and talk), (Shapes in the world — shape hunt picture sheet: circle, square, triangle in scenes; match to real objects; includes extra shape-in-environment scenes)). Colours and shapes in the natural and built environment.
- Child identifies colour and shape of real objects in the classroom. Child matches workbook images to real objects.
Science
- Child identifies and names at least 3 of 4 primary colours
- Child identifies and names at least 2 of 3 basic shapes
- Child uses a colour or shape word spontaneously in play
- Child selects the taller or shorter of two objects when named
Music
- Colours Rhyme (I Can Sing a Rainbow) — red, yellow, blue, green. Shapes Rhyme — circle, square, triangle. Open Shut Them — bilateral hand coordination. This is Big Big — size contrast song.
- Child participates in 2 of 4 songs through action or vocalisation. Child anticipates a familiar song by Week 3.
Practical Life
- Child identifies and names at least 3 of 4 primary colours
- Child identifies and names at least 2 of 3 basic shapes
- Child uses a colour or shape word spontaneously in play
- Child selects the taller or shorter of two objects when named
For Families
Conversation starters
- Name colours of everyday objects as they appear: your red cup, the yellow banana, the blue sky
- Point out shapes in the environment: the round clock is a circle, the door is a rectangle
- Let your child sort household objects into colour groups — even fruit in a bowl works perfectly
- Ask about: Child identifies and names at least 3 of 4 primary colours
Home activity
Colour basket sorting: put two baskets on the table, one with a red dot sticker, one with a yellow dot sticker.
Weekly reminder
This month unfolds over four weeks — Week 1: First colours — red and yellow through real object handling · Week 2: Completing the four-colour set and first sorting games · Week 3: First shapes through tracing, handling, and finding in the environment · Week 4: Consolidation — combining colour and shape vocabulary. Open each week below for day-by-day plans.
Weekly Planner
First colours — red and yellow through real object handling
First colours — red and yellow through real object handling
Red and yellow introduced through real objects, baskets, and colour cards.
Completing the four-colour set and first sorting games
Completing the four-colour set and first sorting games
Blue and green introduced.
First shapes through tracing, handling, and finding in the environment
First shapes through tracing, handling, and finding in the environment
Circle, square, and triangle introduced with real objects and finger-tracing.
Consolidation — combining colour and shape vocabulary
Consolidation — combining colour and shape vocabulary
Colour-and-shape combined descriptions: red circle, blue square, yellow triangle.