StephanieF Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 We have just started back and as expected it is a bit painful! We use Getty Dubay and are on level C (printing). Is it too much to expect a page of the book every day? It seems to be taking an age, not the actual writing but the looking around, having a scratch etc lol! He doesn't do much other writing (copywork from WWE twice a week) and a little in LLATL. I don't see how he could be doing much less! Or perhaps I need to be sitting with him when he does it rather than cooking (3 feet away). I had hoped he could be slightly more independent. He is 5 1/2 yrs old and before you all say I am expecting too much, unfortunately in school over here in the UK he would be writing stories (not necessarily good I know) and since he will be going to school eventually I can't afford for him to be behind. Will his concentration suddenly improve? Stephanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FO4UR Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I give my 5yo his penmanship page to complete after breakfast and before he can play;) He gets it done LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieF Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 mmm maybe I need to move it around then and do the things he does with me first and the things he has to do on his own before playtime :lol: Stephanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAM Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 My 5 yo is only on Level A so he does a page 4 days a week. My 8 yo is on Level C- those pages are longer so I ask her to do 3 lines a day. Agree with the having something more fun they can do right after- my 5 yo is much more ambitious getting his done if it's right before snack or playing a math game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwenny Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I'd like to know the answer to this too! I can't get my daughter (5.5yrs) to even do a page/day (4 days/wk). You would think I was torturing her. She screams and throws herself on the floor - it's not pretty! It doesn't seem unreasonable to just write 1 short sentence or 1/2 the capital letters, but she hates it. The coordination is there and her writing is very precise (especially since she erases each letter several times). I just wish I knew how to get her to do it happily! Gwen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookmomma Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We have just started back and as expected it is a bit painful!We use Getty Dubay and are on level C (printing). Is it too much to expect a page of the book every day? It seems to be taking an age, not the actual writing but the looking around, having a scratch etc lol! He doesn't do much other writing (copywork from WWE twice a week) and a little in LLATL. I don't see how he could be doing much less! Or perhaps I need to be sitting with him when he does it rather than cooking (3 feet away). I had hoped he could be slightly more independent. He is 5 1/2 yrs old and before you all say I am expecting too much, unfortunately in school over here in the UK he would be writing stories (not necessarily good I know) and since he will be going to school eventually I can't afford for him to be behind. Will his concentration suddenly improve? Stephanie I would definitely say your expecting a lot if you don't stand there with a 5 1/2 yr old when he is doing writing. I still stand there with my 6 1/2 yr and 8 1/2 yr olds. My younger son actually has an easier time with writing and will copy several sentences, even pages of words, etc. While my oldest whines when he writes a few words or a four-word sentence. But, the younger one has better coordination and he's an excellent drawer, while my oldest has poor coordination. It sounds bad--but I got him (8 yr old) a nintendo ds. Most of the games you play with a stylus on the screen, so it improves his hand-eye coordination (okay, it's bribery to work on strengthening his hand muscles), and it has helped immensely--not that I'm suggesting it. That's just what I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inashoe Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We use Getty Dubai. I love it, and their writing is so very neat and legible. Level C starts with cursive on page 38. If you are doing a page a day, then in under two months he will be starting with cursive. Do you think he will be ready then ? ds6 is part way through Level C, and I can believe that a child with good fine motor skills could be there, but not all kids have the co ord at that age. I only have ds6 do half a page a day, that gives him just a little bit more time to develop before starting with cursive. The program is meant to take a year per Level, so there is no need to rush and move onto the next Level until a child is ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieF Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 You are right, he won't be ready for cursive when he reaches it in the book, I thought about that. I thought that I'd do the extra sheets they sell (blackline masters) at that point as I don't really want him to start cursive until he is about 6.5 or 7yrs. I was just thinking that a page a day is a good way of getting him to write something. Maybe I'll reduce it to half a page a day and just make sure he writes something else everyday in another context, also that way it is split up. Stephanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inashoe Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Do you use WWE ? In a way it gives extra handwriting practice. For the copy work, two short sentences are printed out, and then the child copies this - the lines are given on the page. Since your son is on Level C then he will manage this quite easily. I have just found out that some kids do only one of the two sentences, one is shorter and one is longer. I have my ds6 doing both before I found this out, and will continue with both, he is quite capable. I am using WWE 1 with ds6, even though he is capable of the copywork in WWE 2 - as WWE 1 also includes practice in narration. WWE 2 starts off with dictation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieF Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Yes I do have WWE and he loves that. I was going to drop it in favour of LLATL but I think that we can easily do both-good idea! Stephanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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