Handwriting the Alphabet in Homeschooling

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At this time we can start having your child work on their handwriting. Handwriting is very, very important. As you know most adults as they get older or most children, their handwriting starts to deteriorate as they worry about speed. The better their handwriting is when they're younger the more they'll maintain a legible writing and God forbid they become doctors, you won't have to worry about some of those problems. But in any case, as your child goes throughout their schooling and learns things, you want them to write clearly. If they do go to a regular school it will be far more impressive to their teacher, it will be far more impressive when it's hung on the wall and it just makes other people reading their work that much more enjoyable. And it also helps them from developing poor writing skills to the point where you can't even tell what letter they're trying to form. If you try to do just like with numbers, if you try to do a number 5 too fast and you don't write it correctly like that, it'll end up looking like an S when you're going fast. Same way with letters, so start out with your capital letters as they're nice and big and your children when they're younger they have gross motor skills which means it's easier for them to do big motions than small. So start out with the capital letters and you can include a capital and a lowercase together, but make sure they do correct movements. Make sure, when I wrote that b, I first went down and then I came up to make the circle part. I didn't go up first, I didn't do something that might be easier. To find out the complete alphabet, the correct strokes, you can look online, you can buy a chart at the store. If you remember from your own handwriting, the correct way to do it then you're fine. But make sure that it's consistent and that everyday you're teaching them the same strokes, don't let them get away once with writing a t by going up for the first line instead of down for the first line and then across because it will turn into a bad habit. Also developing good habits with writing, it'll help them to write faster. Once their brain locks in that, you're always using the same strokes over and over again. Then they're able to write faster and more legibly. So I would say have them write the full alphabet, uppercase and lowercase either together or separate, however you would like at least once a day.

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