All About Handwriting

[PhoBIA]

Just a suggestion :


Instead of practising handwriting, send the children to art class. By learning how to draw, it helpps to achieve better handwriting.

[Imami]

PhoBIA:

Just a suggestion :


Instead of practising handwriting, send the children to art class. By learning how to draw, it helpps to achieve better handwriting.

Serious? Phobia, u have something to share with us?

Your post came at a right time. Yesterday I was sitting with my little one while he does his paper work. I noted that he was drawing better than before, and yup, he was writing better than before. All the letters, spaces are better positioned and appropriately sized.

[PhoBIA]

Imami:

Serious? Phobia, u have something to share with us?

Your post came at a right time. Yesterday I was sitting with my little one while he does his paper work. I noted that he was drawing better than before, and yup, he was writing better than before. All the letters, spaces are better positioned and appropriately sized.

Both of boys go for art class. My K2 boy has handwriting most people comment as very neat. His Chinese handwriting looks very tidy.
I guess the art class helped him a lot. I didn't give him any supplementary to practise handwriting. Only gave them plenty of pre writing exercises (eg. Dots to dots, maize, colouring)
As children grow, the space awareness and the gauging sense grow better, so their handwriting will improve. It's best to change them while they are in kindergartens, else their ugly handwriting will stay with them for life.

[Imami]

Phobia,


Did you kid's started off writing well, even before the art classes? According to my child's teacher at the cc, she observed that girls write better. At this stage, all I ask for is for my child to write legibly. Hopefully, he will write neatly in time to come,

I also have some qns for you here

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4650&p=871936#p871936

[jedamum]

PhoBIA:

It's best to change them while they are in kindergartens, else their ugly handwriting will stay with them for life.

agree!

[Imami]

When the kid is able to write legibly, but perhaps not \"neat and tidy\", do you still let the kid practise on those penmanship exercises? My little one is able to write already but he is still writing one big, one small... So I got him some writing exercises for just alphabets (one letter one page). He got offended and said he's capable of more :slapshead:

[Musicstar]

My DD is in P1 this year. When she was in K1 , the teacher praised her handwriting very neat and nice. Indeed it is very neat. But in K2 her handwriting started to be untidy until now still the same. I tell her to write neatly but still the same. What can I do to help her the change it?

[PhoBIA]

Imami:

So I got him some writing exercises for just alphabets (one letter one page). He got offended and said he's capable of more :slapshead:

When my kids were unable to write, they already refused to do those exercises.
But the penmanship like maize path, dots to dots( numbers or alpahbets), colouring (based on number code), they never get tired. They love the dots to dots especially. The joy of seeing the picture appear as the dots are completed is great for them.
I guess when they can manuvoure their pencil well, it will be easier to tell them how to write nicer. For my older boy, I correct him when giving him the weekly spellings.
Remember to praise when they show a little improvement, then they will want to do better each time.

[Imami]

PhoBIA:

Imami:

So I got him some writing exercises for just alphabets (one letter one page). He got offended and said he's capable of more :slapshead:

When my kids were unable to write, they already refused to do those exercises.
But the penmanship like maize path, dots to dots( numbers or alpahbets), colouring (based on number code), they never get tired. They love the dots to dots especially. The joy of seeing the picture appear as the dots are completed is great for them.
I guess when they can manuvoure their pencil well, it will be easier to tell them how to write nicer. For my older boy, I correct him when giving him the weekly spellings.
Remember to praise when they show a little improvement, then they will want to do better each time.

Ok then, I think I will drop the plain writing exercises. I got him a set of mazes + penmanship workbooks. Total 4 workbooks, each page comes with two rolls of dotted letters at the side or bottom and the rest of the page is a full size maze. He likes mazes (dunno why, got kick getting out of the maze?), so with the writing occupying a smaller portion of the whole page, there is some sort of psychological effect that he’s doing less work but more play (doing mazes is considered playing to him).

Just to check – do your kids know how to read instruction? There is always some instructions at the top of the worksheets e.g colour the squares blue and the circles red. Do your kids read them and do accordingly? I notice my kid doesn’t read the instruction. He does his work ‘intuitively’ and I have to say, he has got good intuition – most of the time, he gets the requirements done. But that’s not correct, isn’t it? then again, I myself was like that too, when I was in primary school – I didn’t read instructions too and most of the time, I got it right. I only read the instructions when I couldn’t decipher what was required…

[PhoBIA]

Imami,


My kids don't read instructions too. I read for them. :sad:
Most children don't or rather most people don't. How often adults read instruction manuals? We conveniently ask.

My K2 boy is starting to show a little independence. He will try to read it, interprets it andask me if it is correct. Hopefully, when he is in p1, I can let go. :boogie: