{"id":26,"date":"2018-06-18T17:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:50:39","slug":"why-are-fine-motor-skills-so-important","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/why-are-fine-motor-skills-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are fine motor skills so important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strengthening fine motor skills (or hand and finger muscles) is important because these are the muscles that we use to write.&nbsp; The stronger these muscles are, the easier it will be for your child to learn how to write.&nbsp; Here are some ideas of how you can help us achieve this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coloring<\/li>\n<li>Playdough<\/li>\n<li>puzzles<\/li>\n<li>waffle builders<\/li>\n<li>Legos or duplos<\/li>\n<li>Any toy that can be connected together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strengthening fine motor skills (or hand and finger muscles) is important because these are the muscles that we use to write.&nbsp; The stronger these muscles are, the easier it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/csmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}