Home-Schooling, Early Years: WRITING: Grouping Similar Letters for Writing at any One Time Seems to Work!

It seemed, we had no system for our writing exercises.  I kind of just picked out random letters which seemed a good idea.  So I decided to try 'bunching up' similar letters, e.g. h & n and m, or b & l.  I was a bit worried that O would get confused, but in fact I think it helped him, and he's taking well to it. We'd only just started doing it, so far so good, but if we run into problems with this one , I'll 'unrecommend' it in my further posts.

The 'smileys' or the 'grumpys', the little 'faces inside the letters, is a treat of free flow 'doodling' our son loves at the end of his writing exercise.  It generally leaves him in fits of giggles and we try to chose pretty letters' to make faces.