tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20489866.post8080549052421293255..comments2023-07-22T10:53:29.401-05:00Comments on MissAdaptation: Another week gone byMissAdaptationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10740237383462240905noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20489866.post-5445414796717023692010-09-15T11:11:07.563-05:002010-09-15T11:11:07.563-05:00Both Samuel and Avery have been cursed with my ext...Both Samuel and Avery have been cursed with my extremely messy, horrible handwriting. Both of them are Lefties like me, but to make matters even worse, Samuel forces himself to be a Righty since in his mind, none of his classmates write with their left hand, so the right hand must be the hand he's supposed to write with too... Arg! But that's a story for another time. I once told Samuel's 1st grade teacher (whom I am really good friends with, by the way...) that I thought it was a joke that Samuel was on the A Honor Roll, making 100 averages in every single class, but he was failing handwriting. I actually asked her if I was supposed to take her "neat handwriting concerns" seriously (horrible, I know!), and she just looked at me like I'd lost my mind. :-) So, here's a practical suggestion that she offered me. Buy a handwriting tablet called Learn to Letter with GuideLines by Mead. They have grooves on the paper, along with pencil stroke motions printed onto the paper. If the child is writing the letter and moves the pencil outside of the groove, they can feel it and see where the pencil is supposed to be on the paper. $4/tablet... totally worth it. They worked wonders for both my kids. Found them at Target (but that was 2 yrs ago). You can buy them online too: http://www.mead.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product3_10051_10006_127818_-1_false_10051Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17449635049676896992noreply@blogger.com