Study On Children’s Chopstics-Use Fine Motor Skill Based On School Readiness

The phenomenon of pre-school education toward primary degree has arisen for a long time, with essence that teachers do not understand the inherent relationship between physical and mental development of young children school readiness. Learning to read, count, and write prematurely are three general performance. Writing prematurely violates the law of children’s physically and mentally nature. On the contrary, if the pre-school stage children haven’t do enough school readiness for fine motor, it may lead school-age children to dysgraphia. It can be said that, chopsticks-use is an important school readiness for young children’s fine motor skills. As pre-school stage is the critical period for early childhood’s chopsticks-use, which will affect the development of chopsticks-use action and other fine motor as writing, paper cutting, etc. for lifetime, if they missed the period and painstaking practice after the period.Chopsticks-use, as young children’s important school readiness of life skills, directly affects the process of individual meals. Chopsticks-use, as young children’s important school readiness of fine motor skills, it can promot the effective convergence and quickly adapt with writing of the pupils and promote the development of brain, cognitive, emotional, and social of preschooler.Based on preliminary interviews and surveys, the study compared the chopsticks action performance and hand electromyography characteristics in different situation. Study commenced by two experiments:experiment I was a three-factor mixed design, selected for the different ages and experience children, which required them to use two pairs of different size chopsticks to complete three use chopsticks tasks (gripping, pinch-off, transfer), then compared the performance among different age, experience, and chopsticks children’s chopsticks. Experiment II was three-factor mixed design with children and adults, with two pairs of different-sized chopsticks, used chopsticks completed three tasks as experiment I, recorded and compared different tasks subjects’ hand average EMG(AEMG).The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Based on the status of children’s chopsticks-use in kindergarten and the important value of chopsticks-use to school readiness for fine motor, kindergartens should be more focus on chopstick-use of young children, and provide more opportunities for them to use chopsticks.(2) It’s effective for children to use chopsticks earlier (approximately in class).(3) Older young children’s chopstick-use are more stability than youngers; the longer the children use chopsticks, the better control of force.(4) While selecting meal chopsticks, teachers should consider the chopsticks performance and children’s interest. At first, teachers should give smaller size of chopsticks to children for game, then for eating; then teachers should give children a slightly larger size one based on better performance of chopsticks.(5) The AEMG of flexor carpi ulnaris of right hand is greater than the left in all tasks. The AEMG of all the muscles in pinch-off is higher than the others.(6)The Novice(children)’s contralateral hand abductor pollicis brevis can be activated, when they are executing the difficult or need great force’s chopsticks-use task.