The activities of the day were about cutting and gluing.
It sounds like play, and it is, but behind the scissors lies one of the most useful skills of this age. To cut along an outline, the hands have to do different things at the same time: one holds the scissors, the other turns the paper. It is exactly the kind of coordination that neat handwriting later depends on.
Gluing adds the planning part. The cut-out pieces have to be laid down first, looked at, moved about, and only then stuck, because glue does not forgive. In this very practical way the children learn that some decisions are taken beforehand, not afterwards.
We prepared the worksheets for home use as well, so the activity could be carried on with the family.