The below is a quote from Gill Connell, - the team know her as a wonderfully gifted Professional development provider. She has also written books on children's movement patterning and skills.......
How does playing hopscotch help a child with handwriting?
We sometimes see children
sitting in strange positions when they haven't yet mastered their ability to
move one part of their body independently from another. We call this
homo-lateral development. Handwriting requires children to hold one side of
their body still (to hold the paper) while the other side moves and forms the
letters on the paper. If this has not yet been developed, children (and adults)
will sometimes sit themselves in contorted positions in order to control the
other side of the body. Doing activities that help develop this skill (we call
it midline development), by moving using opposition movements - crawling,
climbing, marching, monkey walking etc will help. As well, practicing movements
where one side remains still while the other moves - like hopping, waving,
scissor cutting, hammering to name a few can help this develop.
For more info on this here's a link to her blog.
http://movingsmartblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/why-hopscotch-matters.html
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