Handwriting Without Tears Package 1

by MELISSA A on 2008-07-24
My son went to public school for kindergarten and learned his writing basics there, unfortunately he was making all his letters incorrectly. Because the teacher had 20 students she could watch each one to make sure they were forming the letter correctly, just the finished papers and his letters looked fine, but i knew that his bad handwriting habits would come back to bite him when he tried to move on to cursive. When we began homeschooling before our sonlight supplies and HWT arrived we were just doing some review on our own.I tired to work with him on his handwritingbut it was so frustrating and we both ended up angry and he was in tears nearly every time. Then our supplies arrived and i looked over the HWT materials and I knew this was going to work! We started all over as if he hadn't learned handwriting before, he loved that when he finished his page i would let him color or shade the little pictures. the only thing i didn't like was the way that the number 5 is made, it really threw him off so i adapted that one. my mother who is a teacher and on the board of her schools curriculum committee liked it so much that she went back and implemented it into the lower grades of the schools she works with!