Alicia
Member
My two older kids, 8 and 10, do handwriting each day, and I insist that they do it perfectly as possible, and we stop when they get tired.
Does this apply to Primary Language Lessons? What if they are in the middle of a page and thier handwriting gets sloppy. Do they only do half the lesson? Often this happens with math as well.
I don't want them developing a habit of sloppiness, but we can't do everything orally.
The lessons in PLL are VERY short, so I would think you could do a whole lesson. I'm not sure if you are referring to a specific lesson in there, but PLL is very short for each lesson. For some lessons that are fill-in-the-blank, I do allow our DC to just write the answer beside the corresponding number.
We mostly though do PLL orally, probably 75% of the time. We also skip some of the lessons like picture study (we do those with other materials) and a lot of the dictation (again done in other ways).
I'm not sure this helps, but I think sloppiness is one thing and writing neatly another. Some children just don't have the fine motor strength to write as neatly as others. I have 2 with sensory needs and handwriting is very hard for them.
I would expect their best, but I try to stay away from the word "perfect". Hope this helps.
erin.kate
Member
We also do much of PLL orally and when writing needs to be done I do expect it to be the child's very best. If she gets weary (actually tired from writing, not because she has other plans), we set it aside until later and do something without writing like reading aloud, math flashcards, etc. We do aim to accomplish the day's lesson though, even if it might happen at another time later on. The lessons are pretty short that it never really poses a problem, but I am stickler for beautiful handwriting ... whatever "beautiful" means for each individual child.
Alicia
Member
Thanks very much for the responses. They really help.
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