Home-schooling young years: WRITING with Pen instead of felt-tip Pen

Because we haven't quite established a decent filing system for our home-schooling endeavours, as of yet, this is the boring bit of the whole thing, we often end up losing our bits and bobs.  For example we'd already lost a set of self-made letter cards.  While on the subject, the cards, which I cheaply make very much to my own specification in no time whatsoever, are quickly becoming our best tool to learning all kinds of things which do not learn by themselves. We love cards.

Anyway. On top of losing cards,  one day last week we couldn't find our main 'whipe-clean' writing pad.  It was annoying but there was no time to spend going around the house in circles, hoping that it will just turn up because I SO wished it would.   So instead, I asked Oliver to write  with 'grown up' pen straight on paper, telling him that , at least it was not going to get rubbed off quickly.  And he did! It took him a little bit to get hang of the ball pen medium, but he did.

I was very surprised with the result and very pleased, indeed, that we were thrown into this brave, all considered, 'grown up'  writing  straight away. Some letters, like 'V' he struggled with quite a bit.  Other, such as 'd' , 'a' and 'O' seemed really really easy for him. All I did was just to point the beginning dots. And he really enjoyed writing most letters, too! 

3rd day in,  O really struggled with 'y' and 'g' , just couldn't remember where to go from the dot,  and I didn't want him to lose his writing confidence, so I had to write them in red felt-tip pen and he just went over them ( can't find the pad right now, no joke,  will post as soon as it re-appeared).  So, yeah, very pleased. Well done, little man,  our little super-writer.