This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click through one of my links and make a purchase, I will receive a commission. Are you looking for gifts for kids who love to write? Maybe you’d like to encourage a child to write. One gift I tend to buy my daughter every year is a […]
Book Making in Preschool
When my daughter was a preschooler, she would dictate stories to me, and I’d write the text for her. Other times I’d help her write a sentence, one word at a time. Book making in preschool was slow, painstaking work. By the time she got through one word, she’d forget what she wanted to say […]
Change the Way You See Your Preschool Writer
How do you see your preschooler as a writer? Is she a pretend writer, a scribbler, or an emergent writer? Do you attach descriptors to explain the quality of your preschooler’s writing? If so, maybe it’s time to change the way you see your preschool writer. My son’s as an emergent writer. He can write […]
How to Make Counting Books With Preschoolers
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click through one of my links and make a purchase, I will receive a commission. Does your preschooler know how to count? My son is confident with counting up to 20 now, but he used to skip 15 all the time. One day he counted the letters […]
Does Pencil Grip Matter?
Does Pencil Grip Matter? Over the years in the classroom I saw a lot of handwriting that was less than ideal. Some kids had poor pencil grips. Was there a correlation? Does pencil grip matter? I assumed pencil grip played a big part, so I tried my best to encourage a proper grasp. But […]
