Friday, February 25

Reading K/1: Handwriting

I plan on continuing to use HWOT as our main handwriting to guide the boys in using correct letter formation & such, but I also wanted to reinforce their reading lessons with handwriting practice as well.  I used handwritingworksheets.com to create pages that contained words & sentences from their I Can Read It! books.  I tried to keep some kind of flow to my pages, make them increasingly difficult day-to-day, but they do vary slightly each week.  I’ve only made the first 4 weeks of sheets, but here is the flow I have going so far:

*Trevor is only 4 & is still needing wider lines than Tucker.  I used size 3 for Tucker which has 4 lines & size 4 for Trevor (3 lines), but occasionally I printed both using size 3 (to help easy Trevor into a narrower writing line).

Week 1:  Phonics Focus:  short a/ –at ending

Day 1:  Capital & lower case letter review, new word(s), short sentence

Day 2:  New word(s), slightly longer sentence (1 line tracing, 1 line on their own)

Day 3:  Long sentence (1 line tracing, 1 line on their own)

Day 4:  Word reviews (tracing, then on their own, or write a sentence using a few of the words they  traced)

Week 3:  Focus is still on short a, but with different consonant endings

Day 1:  New/Review words, short sentence

Day 2:  Long sentence

Day 3:  Long sentence & short sentence

Day 4:  Long sentence

Here are samples of the pages I made:

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