Sunday, 23 October 2016

Home Schooling, WRITING: Ups and downs of 'g'

O's writing started  off surprisingly quick and easy.  We decided to alternate the wipe offs and 'real' writing from scratch with ball pen and paper.  The first few goes went incredibly well, he seem to do nice neat small letters, letter 'a' and 'd' to be precise, with little difficulty and only starting dot for a guide.

Then, I decided to move on to 'g' as I thought it was similar to 'a' and... he just couldn't crack it, for days and days, no joy, he was worried about his writing, I was worried about his writing,  trying to understand what I did wrong and if I pushed him too  hard ( he does 1 A4 a day , about 10 lines, at the moment) 

Then, by the end of the week, his 'g's just got nicer. Strange what things make you rejoice beyond belief when you are parent  and a home schooler parent at that.  Oliver loved it, it was such a celebration for him to get it right.  I think going through the difficulty and then seeing with his own eyes that he could overcome that difficulty was a very nice experience for him.  Oliver is very goal orientated and now he is working  on writing a letter to Father Xmas to get his highly desired lego set he'd seen in Legoland.

So, ( running a little behind on our posts), we are nearly reached his first ever 'holiday' and seems like we about to pack away all our studying resources on a good note!

Smooth Beginnig 'd' & 'a's similar enough , right? 

Starting on 'g' with quite a difficulty, much like 'y' 


...And getting there within about a week that seemed like a month!  But a very very neat 'g' ! 

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