{"id":3401,"date":"2019-03-18T02:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2019-03-18T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:13:13","slug":"connect-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/18\/connect-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect the Polka Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Large piece of white paper<br>Sticky dots from the Dollar Store<br>Markers or crayons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Stick the dots all over the paper in a random fashion. You can use multicolored dot stickers if that\u2019s what you have. Give your child a marker or crayon and encourage him to make marks on the paper. We tried drawing circles around the dots, drawing dots right on the stickers, and eventually drawing lines from one dot to another. This is a great activity for refining your child\u2019s eye-hand coordination, which is the processing of visual cues to direct the movement of the hands. This is an important part of the learning process and comes into play as your child is tracking print across the page, grabbing something, or even catching a ball!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/03\/Connect-the-Polka-Dots-Merrin-1-2-902x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/03\/Connect-the-Polka-Dots-Merrin-1-2-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/03\/Connect-the-Polka-Dots-Merrin-1-2-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/03\/Connect-the-Polka-Dots-Merrin-1-2-768x872.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Large piece of white paperSticky dots from the Dollar StoreMarkers or crayons Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;Stick the dots all over the paper in a random fashion. You can use multicolored dot stickers if that\u2019s what you have. Give your child a marker or crayon and encourage him to make marks on the paper. We tried drawing circles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/18\/connect-the-dots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connect the Polka Dots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}