Handwriting Without Tears

When your a 5yo boy, handwriting is just the pits.  Now add poor fine motor skills and being a lefty and it's just plain miserable.  I worked and worked with Taylor last Spring.  We were both hating it and feeling VERY frustrated.  I had heard about HWT long ago.  So I looked into it more and just fell in love with it.  The web site has a ton of printables and videos so you can see the program in action.  I bought a few things and we got started as soon as preschool was over.  The list of reasons why I LOVE this program is long, very long.  But most importantly, Taylor "likes" the program.  He doesn't love handwriting, but he has been working with me for 20 min. every day all summer.  It's night and day when I tell him we need to do handwriting.  And his handwriting has improved leaps and bounds.  Here are just a "few" reasons why I love HWT.

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  It was researched and developed by an Occupational Therapist
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  It has A LOT of sensory and movement methods instead of just pencil and paper
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  They introduce the letters that are developmentally appropriate instead of just starting at A.
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  They do capital letters first and every letter has either little curve, big curve, big line, or little line.
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  The kids can say the line they are writing to help them remember and to ear it auditorally
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  You can buy a magadoodle type thing with magnets of the 4 lines and make the letter with stamp magnets before you go to paper and pencil.
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  The workbook has the kids write their letters inside a gray box.  Helps with boundaries and proportion. 
• Any parent can pick it up and do this program

I could go on if you need me to!