Handwriting Without Tears

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  • February 9, 2017 at 6:01 am
    LittleFire
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    we are not true homeschoolers we go through a charter school. They offer some good options for curriculum and we use BookShark. However they expect my kids to do handwriting without tears. Any more than one page a day and I feel like it falls into the category of twaddle. My kids get bored and cranky having to sit still and do extra writing.

    Is cooywork really enough to produce good handwriting? I feel like if Charlotte says it is than it is. However I would like to know some other sources I could rattle off for the teachers if they start giving me a hard time for not turning in a stack of pages each week, they want ten to fifteen minutes of HWOT pages per day!

    February 9, 2017 at 10:36 am
    Monica
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    Copywork is enough, unless a particular child is struggling.  All kids develop at their own pace, and doing “extra” (to the point of boredom and crankiness) is counterintuitive.

    That said, it’s also important that your child have a respect for his teachers and their expectations.  10-15 minutes…that means 5 minutes before his after-school snack, 4 minutes before his screen time, and 3 minutes before his bedtime story.  It could work broken up like that if it becomes a habit that he expects.

    It’s very difficult to have a schooling philosophy and have your child enrolled in a traditional school.  (Ask me how I know…)

    February 9, 2017 at 4:18 pm
    LittleFire
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    Just to clarify, we school at home not through a charter. The teachers require weekly submit ion of work. So the teacher says do several pages of HWOT a day and pick one per day to email in at the end of the week.

    My son likes to write stories but has me spell out words and writes mostly in Capitol letters. I have cut him back to only doing the required send I page per day today and he did it and then wanted to write more on his own later instead of being bummed when we got to copywork.

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