Writing Letters

kalis · #1 February 6th, 2012, 09:41 AM

Is your kiddo writing any letters? How about numbers?

Thea does really well overall and can write all her letters, especially well if copying. But for some reason she has had a really hard time with the letter K this past week. Of course, she really wants to do artwork or projects more than workbook pages so that might be part of it. She is young enough that I am not going to push it, but this was just the first time I saw her have trouble making it look right. She would write it correctly once or twice and then forget where the lines should go next.
And I have noticed she has trouble with some of her numbers as well, but we haven't practiced them much. She just writes them herself sometimes. Or if we are doing addition with manipulatives, she will need me to show her the number after she somes up with it verbally so she can copy it to write it down.

jewelybug · #2 February 6th, 2012, 10:24 AM

We haven't started working on writing at all. She pretends to write when I am though but it's just scribbles.

Twhylite21 · #3 February 6th, 2012, 10:49 AM

Lily can write most of her letters on her own. She has difficulty sometimes with Z, Y, E and B (For E, she'll sometimes put a 4th line and with the others she doesn't always match the line back up, so one part of the Y is spaced a bit further away, etc).

As for numbers, she can do 0-10 pretty easily, but sometimes struggles with 2 and 5. I think the curves just throw her a bit.

Effervescence · #4 February 6th, 2012, 11:36 AM

Jonah does not have the fine motor skills down yet. I think this is why he never draws anything, too. He just scribbles. The only thing he has ever attempted to draw is a rainbow with flowers and a waterfall LOL. Jonah's drawings look nothing like the drawings of other kids' his age, so I think motor skills has something to do with it.

We are working on getting him to trace lines and shapes right now, and hopefully that will strengthen his control of the pencil/crayon. He can't quite make it go where he wants it to go, and he also has a hard time pressing hard enough to make a mark

~Michele~ · #5 February 6th, 2012, 01:19 PM

Max has NO interest at all. I've written his name in yellow/orange marker so he can trace it so he can have "homework" like his big brother but he really struggles with it. He really hates to color so I don't push it.