Satori loves to practice her handwriting. She has tons of little journals. They don’t say anything that makes sense, but this week she’s been trying her darndest to sound out words, so that if I really try to read them, I might be able to get the gist of some phrases. 
A few weeks ago we started the Kindergarten HWT book – “Letters and Numbers for Me”. I had typed up a lesson schedule to go over a few pages a day, but she would wake up and ask to work on her new orange book, so I went with it. She’s now finished her Capital letters review and we’re *finally* to the lowercase letters. If you read my blog, you’ll know that we’re quite excited about it. So I celebrated this event with her by making an official Handwriting Book for her to keep her handwriting practice samples.
Satori's Handwriting Book
As you can see, it’s one of those floppy 3-ring binders with a place to display a cover page. So we went to town decorating a cool cover page, complete with glitter, jewels and stickers! Our new HWT paper arrived this week, so we will stock it with this. The bottom sheets are the Gray Block Paper for capital letter practice, which includes 4 different types of sheets – Starting Corner, Center Starting, Alphabet/Number and Blocks for Words. The top sheets is the Wide Double Line Notebook paper for sentences that include lowercase.
HWT paper
Here’s a sample of her capital letters she did a few days ago. We will still need to practice them, but they’re looking good!
She loves her Handwriting Without Tears program, each workbook page has little illustrations to color, which she loves. She’s not a workbooky gal, but she loves working on her book, but she goes so fast on the practice and doesn’t like to be told “to fill in the gray squares” or to take her time. We also love all the extra multisensory activities that reinforce her letter formation.
