My 6 year old showed me another book that she completed today. My highly creative visual-spatial learner loves to draw, write, and create stories from her imagination. Every once in awhile she will show me a story or a page and I will see mirror writing. She doesn’t know that…
Letter School is a handwriting app that is a great tool for young children learning to form letters and numbers. This highly motivating app guides a child through levels of tracing to help teach a child correct letter formation. While it doesn’t involve things like using the correct…
I made a different choice for handwriting this past summer. My younger son has had much difficulty with using the correct grip as well as letter formation. Reversals were common as well. My older son was starting to learn cursive. He also struggled with handwriting early on, but he did…
I’ve started a journal communication this year with both of my boys. Instead of giving them journal assignments or a journal to just write their thoughts their journals are a communication. I write a sentence or two and my son writes to me. We do this back and forth and…
Copywork is commonly used in some homeschooling circles. Basically it is a child copying words, sentences, or a passage into a separate book to practice handwriting, grammar, and sentence structure. While I don’t use copywork for grammar or sentence structure, I do use it for handwriting practice. I do use…
When I first heard of copywork I wondered why anyone would use it. It seemed so unnecessary. Here I am two years later eating my words. I started using it last school year as additional handwriting practice and my boys enjoyed it. Not only does it give them handwriting practice,…
My 6 year old took off with reading last school year and now he can read just about anything. However, this year we are redoing Kindergarten’s handwriting skills. Getting my son to write several sentences is a long process for him. Copywork has been difficult too. So this year I…
