Pencil Holding

[spwriting]

How about drawing?


Or doing other things like opening things, slotting things into holes, pulling things out etc? My dd had this and we trained her motor finger strength skills. The Montessori methods helps too because they have all these pouring, stacking activities which helps develop this.

Thereafter her pencil holding improved as she has much more strength and energy. Since she is 5, i don't think you have much time to change schools or have schools work on it but maybe you can adopt some of their exercises to do at home?

larkspur:

markjosephine1971:

[quote=\"larkspur\"]hi,

my son going 5 years old has no problem in holding pencil and can trace the dotted line BUT if you ask him to write the alphabet on a paper with no dotted line, he cant even know where to start even though he might have traced the same alphbet for days. even when we show him how to write or draw an inverted \"u\", he can only write l . It seems like mentally he is scared of writing. My hubby and i are worried that mentally he is rejecting writing. Is there anyone who can help or recommend a doctor or some therapy that i need to send him too? My son practically do not know how to write at all any alphabet and it is quite worrying though he can read very well

Not to worry so much. Just make sure that he is very familiar with all the 26 letters, Upper and lower case. For my son is 4 year and 2 months, I don teach him to write. He will be able to trace without problem. When he is very familiar with the letter he will write according to what he remember. I only need to teach him the correct strock.

Hi,

the issue is he is not even able to trace properly at all.using the dotted line and asking him to trace, sometimes cannot make out the alphabets he is tracing. suspect something to do with his motor skill not well developed.[/quote]

[larkspur]

his teachers at childcare have been highlighting his problems to us. The childcare has given them pencils and colour pencils to do writing and colouring since N1 and his whole class of K1 can write already except my son. So now trying to train him to write and at the same time, may need to bring him to KKH to check if some motor skill problems

[Ivy Ang Siow Kia]

Try this to train finger skills/strength: Get them to kneed doughs. You can play hiding and finding games with them using the dough. Hide something small like a coin: first ask him/her to kneed the dough, it can be play dough/ plaster cine/ or even blue tack, roll it into a tube, hide the items and ask him/her to find them digging into the doughs. This will help them to develope their motor skills while strengthening up their muscles. With this, they can control and hold the pencil properly.

[larkspur]

Ivy Ang Siow Kia:

Try this to train finger skills/strength: Get them to kneed doughs. You can play hiding and finding games with them using the dough. Hide something small like a coin: first ask him/her to kneed the dough, it can be play dough/ plaster cine/ or even blue tack, roll it into a tube, hide the items and ask him/her to find them digging into the doughs. This will help them to develope their motor skills while strengthening up their muscles. With this, they can control and hold the pencil properly.

i try buying dough and let him play. even make animal shape to attract him but he only play a while. He doesn't like playing with dough. Dunno why but now i get him to do writing, seems like there is improvement already. Have told him to do the 4 kumon book tracing and if teachers at childcare says good, will buy him a toy. seems to work. but i think will bring him to KKH to check just in case. At least next time, anything , i can rule that out

[Ivy Ang Siow Kia]

larkspur:

Ivy Ang Siow Kia:

Try this to train finger skills/strength: Get them to kneed doughs. You can play hiding and finding games with them using the dough. Hide something small like a coin: first ask him/her to kneed the dough, it can be play dough/ plaster cine/ or even blue tack, roll it into a tube, hide the items and ask him/her to find them digging into the doughs. This will help them to develope their motor skills while strengthening up their muscles. With this, they can control and hold the pencil properly.

i try buying dough and let him play. even make animal shape to attract him but he only play a while. He doesn't like playing with dough. Dunno why but now i get him to do writing, seems like there is improvement already. Have told him to do the 4 kumon book tracing and if teachers at childcare says good, will buy him a toy. seems to work. but i think will bring him to KKH to check just in case. At least next time, anything , i can rule that out

It is good to have him for a check so that we can put our mind at ease..Gd luck

[Cathy Wu]

here are some tips to hold your pencil right. http://paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html

[Seow Ting Ting]

thank you for the tips

[sembgal]

:goodpost:

Cathy Wu:

here are some tips to hold your pencil right. http://paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html