When I was showering the younger two kids in the late afternoon, I suggested to 7yo Vee that he finished his homework first. Instead he went to do his own copywork from the 笔顺 (Chinese strokes) book again. After a long day at Chinese school, he still wanted to write Chinese! These are moments when […]
#2 Jae is 4y2m old and in a Chinese school K1 class. Every day, he gets a small page of writing homework. Though I’m not a fan of writing homework for little children, we just have to go along and I try to make things as easy as possible. Prior to this year, Jae has
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Sandpaper Letters is an excellent material designed by Dr. Maria Montessori to introduce alphabet writing and sounds (or beginner’s phonics) to young children. I introduced them to #1 Vee at about 3+ years old. He wasn’t keen on writing at that age, yet he enjoyed practising with the sandpaper letters. Eventually, he started writing at
Here’s a short post on the Montessori method of teaching a child to write on a line… Some time back, I let Vee practise writing on lined paper, but his letters were “jumping” all over the place. So I went back to Karen Tyler’s Language album to use the presentation on Line Placement (on page
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