B has lived and breathed the alphabet lately! "Do you want to see who can build the biggest tower with these blocks, B?" "No, let's build letters with them!" You get the idea. So when he started tracing the letters in a coloring book I knew I should take advantage of that learning opportunity!
I quickly googled and found this Handwriting Worksheet Maker. PERFECT! I typed in what I wanted him to trace (his first and last name and upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet) and printed.
My plan was to cover it in contact paper so he could trace over and over again but he was too excited to give it a try so I will print another one later to keep and use with dry erase markers.
**I also just found this free PreK Handwriting Worksheets download from Home Grown Hearts. It is awesome!
Hee hee, I just started doing the same thing with my kids. But, I need to go back to just uppercase, they're struggling with lower case that I added in, and I started doing too much for them at once.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter loves to print as well, this has turned into my favorite worksheet site for her:
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Thanks for all the links. I bookmarked your post - hopefully eventually my daughter will use printables not only as an excuse to draw something on the other side :)
ReplyDeleteI like to slide them into sheet protectors. My son loves to take the paper out at the end and see that the writing stays put. We use overhead markers, because they don't smudge as easily as the dry erase ones. But, they are both hard on laundry. I made a folder with several sheet protectors. I slide different pages in every few weeks. He likes having the variety and choice of what to work on.
ReplyDeletehttp://givinguponacleanhouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/monday-math-writing-numbers.html
Thanks for the links! I will definately use this with my pre-k little guy :)
ReplyDeleteI love the worksheet makers. I honestly think one could homeschool their children all the way through high school for free (or close to it) using resources found on the internet and the library!
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Love all the handwitting makers out there. We always start with lowercase since a majority of the letters kids will write will be lowercase. Once that is down we will work on the uppercase.
ReplyDeleteI bookmarked this site - thanks!
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