Penmanship

Now that K. is 4-1/2 we are starting to officially learn how to write the alphabet. She has taught herself how to draw all the uppercase letters, but now she needs to learn how to correctly write them. I found an activity book at Staples that has a little saying that goes with each letter. For instance, for the letter H it goes: Draw two Stick Kids side by side. They're shaking hands! Draw a line between them. I'm hoping that these sayings will help override any bad habits she has taught herself.

She doesn't have all the small muscle control I would like before writing on paper, so I put a couple pounds of uncooked rice in a tub and she is practicing writing the letters with her finger in the rice.