My DD5 writing is so bad

[ddwrites]

Bless her. It’s very unclear. I’ve seen some other kids her age writing ( she’s just started year 1 ). Hers is definitely worse. Lots of letters the wrong way around for example.

what I find fascinating is that she absolutely loves writing and colouring ! She’s always writing something. Making lists, writing notes. It’s wonderful to see her enthusiasm.

I am sure before long, she’ll improve. She already is improving. I don’t want to constantly correct her. They’re getting her to attend an extra writing thing daily at school, which should help.

she has great drawing skills and spends a lot of time writing and drawing, so I’m surprised her writing is all over the place. Spelling is terrible as well, but I think that’s also normal of course.

any advice on how to help her without discouraging her love for writing ?

Writing in sand, helps practice the letter shapes smoothly.

School should be well placed to give you some suggestions. But I was told writing comes from fine motor skills which themselves come from gross motor skills. So actually jumping and climbing games can help, forward rolls, physical skills like riding a bike. Then hand and finger strength, so things like using scissors, sticker books, pegs, play dough, plastercine. You can follow along to dough discos, see YouTube. Don't worry, they're all on their own timeline eh. Their hand bones only come together at this sort of age I think! How's her reading?

ah ok. More time on the bike then !

her reading is really good actually.