When we walk or drive Corin asks about all the signs and wants to know what they say. We hit a few Stop signs when we drove to Preschool so he knows them very well. Lately he's been fixated on Stop signs and since we've been working on our letters it was the perfect opportunity to spell the word Stop. We talked briefly about the letters one day and practiced writing the letters just randomly along with other letters. All he needed help with was the 'S' so I make him dashed lines to trace (do it with other letters to when he needs it)and we talked through how to make the other letters.('T' is a straight body with a long hat, 'P' is a straight body with a head). He wanted an octagon because that is a shape of a Stop sign, so I made him one (not very good, but he was fine with it) and he wrote stop inside it, with me making a dashed 'S' so he could trace it since he was having a bit of troubles getting the proper "squiggle" to it and writing the other letters all by himself.
May 18, 2010
He wanted to spell the word Stop. So I dashed out a 'S' for him and all on his own he wrote the next letters, correctly and in order. He did it 3 times!
May 18, 2010
He made a Stop sign all on his own and wrote Stop inside all on his own!
May 19, 2010
Corin is left handed, just like me, so one challenge he had was that he made the sign itself with the paper horizontal, but when he went to to write Stop he had the paper vertical. Something I'll have to work with him on. When I write however, being lefthanded my paper is VERY turned. So I have a hard time writing on a chalkboard at church. When were writing the day before I've noticed that he started switching hands to make parts of the letters because he seemed confused and "twisted" in a sense, trying to figure out how to get the parts all made since I think sometimes he hand was blocking his view. I wouldn't mind at all if he was amidextrious, but it will take a long time for him to write if he has to keep switching hands to make a complete letter, so we'll work on keeping it in one hand. When he holds a crayon in his right hand it looks awkward, like he doesn't have complete control.
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