Mat Man!

We started Handwriting Without Tears today. We did 8-10 of the lessons over the summer, but we are now "officially" starting at the beginning and working our way through the book. (Well, we are skipping a few things at the beginning... she knows her shapes)

We started with mat man! :)


Today we worked on the letters L & F. HWT has a cool approach - using different materials to reinforce how to create each letter. There is a card with the letter on it, and the child traces with her finger. Then she picks out the appropriate wooden pieces to make the letter on the card (or on the blue mat). (see below) Then, you can use Play-doh and/or a cool Etch-a-Sketch thingy that we do not have, and then they write it with chalk. We also did the worksheets from the student workbook, so Bug could write it in crayon. So within the lesson, she made the letter with wood, traced with her finger, wrote it in chalk, and then wrote it in crayon. We haven't yet done the Play-doh thing, but I plan on doing that soon!


That was this morning. This afternoon, I used different "L" and "F" worksheets from the Kindergarten workbook we have. The worksheets were "find the items that start with this letter" and I also threw in some "find the items that rhyme" and "match the word with the item" (picture of a cat and the word "cat", for example) for fun. Then I printed out some lined paper and had her write "L" a bunch of times and "F" and also her name in uppercase letters.

We did some crafts this morning, and right now she is doing puzzles. Oh and we also went to gymnastics class. So I think we covered most of the subjects today! :) I need to throw in a game of Frog Pond Fractions to get the math in there...