Practical Skills for Primary School

• Homework-working with your child
• Cooking with your child
• Free downloadable resources
• Learning styles - recognising
• Leisure activities- non team based
• Mathematics
• Pencil Grips
• Reading
• Revision - learning for tests
• Rulers
• Shoe lace tying
• Social boundaries
• Tests and examinations – preparing
• Transition from primary to secondary school
• Typing

Shoe lace tying

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

This site shows you how to tie laces in different ways.

If you have difficulties teaching your child using different coloured laces may be easier for your child to see.

The bunny loop method is shown :

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

if your child has difficulties with shoe lace tying you can use elastic laces or curly laces instead.