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Handwriting help please!
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My son just turned 6 and I wouldn’t say he is doing any worse or better than you son. I am guessing that you wrote building and watching is that correct? As far as spelling goes that comes with time and I wouldn’t push it. I really like Handwriting without Tears for the reasons you mentioned. They teach which ways to go (up or down) with little fun ways to remember. For my son what made it click as he also hates to make mistakes and is a perfectionist (like his mom) is showing him “WHY” it’s so important to write a certain way. So in printing I would write a word like “not & hot” bot use the same last 2 letters but the 1st letter if you don’t add the top part is now the word “not” which will not make since in a sentence like “my cereal is to not” (my cereal is to hot). For printing this type of examples was helpful for my son. Also, as he is an overachiever I showed him how much more helpful it will be to print his b’s or d’s (come to mind with these 2 letters) correctly now as when we get to cursive it will flow better and he will not have to train his hands to do it differently.
Now with my son this made a big difference and it clicked. It might not for your son. The point to all that is I don’t think your son’s printing is bad at all. I would focus on correct “ways” of printing the letters. Do it in sand, in shaving cream, or with chalk (or just on paper is also find of course) but get creative and I think he is doing a great job! Don’t worry he has years to work on it. My one son is much better in cursive than in printing and who would have thought! LOL 🙂
My ds is 5yo (will be 6 next month). He begged me to teach him to write his letters this summer. I ordered Delightful Handwriting and he loves it. I did need something to help me make sure he formed his letters correctly.
We have gone at his pace and have spent no more than 5 minutes a day on a lesson. A few weeks ago he wanted nothing to do with handwriting so we put it aside. Just this week he asked to do a lesson. Like Misty said, he has years to work on his handwriting.
Your sample looks very similar to my ds but that amount of copywork would be too much for my ds. He usually only practices one letter and maybe one short word. I just guide him through the strokes ask him to do is best copy.
HTH!
My 5 1/2 y/o DS really wanted to learn how to write this year. We are taking it really slowly b/c he has been a late bloomer in this area. We are using HWT. We started with the roll-a-dough, wooden pieces, and went to the stamp & see screen and finally wet, dry, and try chalkboard. We have just started the K book. I felt like he needed the foundation of learning how to form the letters properly in various mediums before moving on to pencil and paper. We have loved it! It will be a while before we even attempt lower case letters (although he does write his name using them), much less, copywork. I figure sometime in 1st grade we will get to copywork. I am just moving at his pace.
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