I am coming to think our biggest writing conundrum to date is the concept of leaving spaces BETWEEN words. I can get them to copy the letters, even occasionally sound out the words… but there is a major misunderstanding about making a word stand alone visibly. Thankfully there are very few backwards letters though printing ON THE LINE is something we are also working on…
We finished our May baskets today, now to put them up somewhere to show them off… we stapled a piece of cardstock to the back to make it a basket and then glued the flowers all over to make it fancy and Spring like. The hands are traced and cut out to be made into lilies tomorrow!
Completed baskets
So Ken spent MOST of this afternoon at BANK. Apparently the belief was that since we paid for everything and got the van back that all is good??? WHAT? So the internal investigation that they SAID would be started was not with the hope that Ken would just not be back. So 6 hrs. later he got home cranky and with a headache but rather sure he made it clear that he WOULD be back. So said BANK was told Ken could come back tomorrow or the next day (they will not know) with the intention that something HAS BETTER be going on! Credit rating and money for fees… reasonable yeah?
Anyway I have been making stars with a vengeance and finding my rhythm with that. I think once I have 10.00 extra again I will order another batch of papers and make a set for my god daughter and maybe myself even! Makes me wish I had more spare spending money RIGHT NOW. Funny how impatient one gets when you find a new craft to go with. I used to play around with origami… maybe there is an affordable way to get started once again?
Gotta keep the WHOLE family busy! (Zander blue)
Today is definitely not my day of deep thought… in fact I think I kinda auto-piloted my way through the majority of it. I think tomorrow night I will take a mental health.. hour… and do some scrapbooking. I have already picked out the paper and have some ideas. The problem is a space to do it and the time to use that space… but isn’t that always the way? Some day I want a crafting area… not even a room just some place all my own!
Taking advantage of the quiet moments
Leaving spaces between words – Have you tried telling them to put a finger space between each word? At first they write the word then when that word is finished they physically put their finger on the paper next to the word and the new word starts after their finger. In time they then learn to make a finger space without actually having to put the finger on the paper then after a while you can just talk about leave a space because by then they have got the concept clear in their heads. It worked well for me in school with a lot of children. Just an idea! :>)
What a wonderful idea Josephine… had a couple other people suggest it too! I would never have thought of that!!! Thanks!
Josephine and Lisa that sounds like a wonderful idea. I could see it working. An easy way to learn a valuable, necessary skill.
Exactly!! Funny how just mentioning an issue can get GREAT help here 🙂