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Besides being a practice in concentration, knitting helps to improve fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and forces both sides of the brain to work in a synchronized fashion, promoting greater brain development. When a child knits, each hand takes part in a separate activity and bilateralism occurs. Bilateralism strengthens the thinking process as it builds both the left and right hemispheres of the brain. In addition, great concentration on the part of the child is required. Ask the children what they are doing during knitting club, and they put it simply. Third grader, Sam Groom, claims he is making a hamster, meanwhile, his friends, Toby Borzekowski and Adare O’Neill, are making hats. While these students create with knitting needles and yarn, their brains benefit.
Art teacher, Finnie Trimpi, hosts Knitting Club in the Specials’ Room each Friday at 12:30 for first graders through sixth graders.
- Submitted: Monday, January 25th by Sheila Pilsmaker
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