Handwriting practice - year 1

[houseHuntinginmanchester]

Is this important? It seems so pointless. Who writes like this anyway ?

Dd says she practices in literacy and is very taken with the idea of joined up writing and loves practicing her handwriting so I've bought her an activity book. She's sat at the table trying to get it all perfect and rubbing out and re-writing like mad

It all seems rather pointless to me.

[catkind]

If that's what she wants to do let her! I'd try to make sure you give her something that matches the school style though or could get confused. Or just encourage her to write things, a diary, a poem, a recipe, a menu for a play cafe, whatever takes her fancy, you don't really need workbooks.

Who writes like what? Who writes? Most people. Joined up is generally considered a quick and neat way to do it.

They'll be doing loads of writing as they go up the school so being quick and confident at it can only help her.

[houseHuntinginmanchester]

Thanks cat, you're right, she just seems to get so huffy and perfectionist about the whole thing

Re 'who writes like this' -what I meant was, the way the workbooks show how to join letters up. I suppose after a closer look it is just normal joined up letters, but they look a bit odd when it's just practicing an individual joined up letter, if you see what I mean.

[catkind]

Hah, we have one of those. 3 yr old has been known to insist on drawing a house 5 times in a row as the first 4 were in some subtle way not right. So may be having the same issue in a year or two... Only wish I could persuade my going-into-year-2 to care about his letters being correct. He was doing his own initial backwards more often and not before this holiday!

[houseHuntinginmanchester]

Oh dear, they seem to swing from one extreme to the other don't they!

And the drawing/writing over and over again can actually be very draining to watch