All About Handwriting

[jacsplace]

Thanks buds. How to do it? I had bad handwriting all through primary school. Because of that, my p5 teacher banned me from becoming a librarian and kept me out of making any crafts that my classmates were doing. I was totally demoralised

[buds]

Early stages when the girls were younger, there was penmanship

books and also crafts, painting work and also simple origami. Also
don't underestimate how beneficial it is for young children to help
with simple house chores like folding, cause it helps children to
refine their fine motor skills much needed for writing, folding,
cutting, (etc) activities...

Even the fact that children who are able to feed themselves with
spoons, forks, chopsticks (or knives : for pancakes or western
food).... build stronger pincer grip, which strengthens the
little kiddie muscles for future writing work. So parents,
stop spoon-feeding the children!! :lol: :lol:

There were also interesting stencil books i bought for the girls which
helped too. When they started pre-school, spelling words practice
and also dictation activities were done with lined books. (3-liner)
Such 3-liner books help keep the alphabets in place.

Opportunities for writing, doodling, drawing, painting and crafting
should be made readily available so that children can be encouraged
to work on them as and when they please. The other way was also to
play teacher. Teacher cannot have untidy handwriting to teach, right? :lol:

So if she writes on her \"teacher's board\" in illegible handwriting, i the
student scratch head lor... and quip, \"Teacher... what's that word? I
cannot see the letters very clearly...\" :?

At that, this small teacher wud draw a line and write the same word
again neatly. I also purposely role-play her with untidy hand-
writing and ask her (the small teacher) to mark... and she will get to
scold me too! How fun, aye?

I will go see if i can snap a few pictures of their stencil books for you, okie?

[buds]

I have written an article at these links which

you can check out instead of spanning the
entire thread to look for them... in case u
did not start from Page 1.

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1939&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1939&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

And here is one by csc-jie.. :love:

> http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1939&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10

[jacsplace]

Thank you so much for all the links Buds. I've read them all and they are indeed very helpful :thankyou:

[Victorious]

my 10yrs ds had very bad hand-writing too... but this Feb when we switched school (from mainstream to a private school using American Biblical curriculum) - he had no choice but to write in cursive and he took about 3 weeks to \"master\" the writing and now am so proud that he writes so beautifully... :love:


in fact :oops: he does write better than dh & i now :lol:

[jazz]

Hi buds,


Waiting eagerly on yr picutres of the stencil books. Sound interesting. BTW, based on yr expertise, can give advise…u see, my girl coming to 3yrs…noticed she prefers hollow tracing ltrs then dots…is it common? She likes to trace stencil alphabets too hence eager to know where u got the stencil book n the cost? Tks!

[agnesost]

Hi all,


I am seeking your help and advice to help my child to learn writing. On numerous times, I tried to hold hand to trace and draw shapes as a starting point. However, he wouldn’t even move his hand while he is holding the pencil.

I understand from his teacher that he likes to read and learn, but not holding crayon or special pencil to trace. Do you have such an issue with your child?

Would you be able to suggest or advise ways for me to motivate my child to trace and draw by holding pencil?

Thank you.

[tankee]

Not even to draw? :shock:


how about colouring?

[agnesost]

He writes to scribble, but not colouring. He always scribble pictures with colour pencils.

[pobee]

Hi,

Probably he just needs more time for practice.

My son now N2 starts to draw circle and other odd shapes. He can only scribble and draw lots of line he calls racing track.

when he was two to three y.o. he grabbed pencil in a fist and just scribble all over the paper. I taught him to trace letters and numbers on rice grain spread on cookie tray everyday.

I also bought a magnetic writing board with pen that allows him scribble on free play.

other things like maze worksheets or line drawing worksheets which are kept in clear folder and let him scribble using erasable marker.

He likes to do that a lot with my guidance, I’ll play with him using another marker, and challenge him to ‘race’ with my marker using his. we also make racing car noise while playing this.

He seldom likes me to hold his hand as guidance, pretty strong will, likes to do it on his own, I simply illustrate to him and practice makes perfect.

I also use letters and numbers worksheet printed in A4 size, there are shapes on the beginning of the stroke that lead to another shape for the next stroke till the end of the stroke to form a letter or number.

I think writing skill starts from scribbling, let him have some fun with different color pencil and marker may intrigue him to write.

Hope it helps you, cheers.