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 WORKSHOPS
FOR HOME SCHOOLING PARENTS
We periodically
offer two 1-hour workshops for parents of home schoolers.
One workshop covers pre-writing and printing handwriting instruction
and the other covers cursive handwriting instruction. The
workshops are given at a time that is convenient for both you as a
parent and the instructor. Each workshop is $100 plus the cost of materials,
i.e., workbooks, guides, special 2-lined paper, grippers, etc.
Printing
Skills
Learn
how to teach your child handwriting readiness and printing skills
using the Handwriting Without Tears™ Curriculum. Call
the studio to arrange your 2-hour workshop for Home Schooling
Parents.
Objectives for your
printer:
1. Strengthen your child's fingers to develop proper pencil
grasp.
2. Explore movement and line.
3. Recognize the difference between left and right sides.
4. Learn concepts of shape, place, and position.
5. Visually recognize capital, printed letters.
6. Become familiar with top-to-bottom and left-to-right habits for
printing.
7. Learn to correctly print both upper case and lower case
letters, and numbers.
8. Recognize need to place letters on the line and to
correctly space letters within a word and between words.
9. Learn to self correct errors by erasing them.
Cursive Skills
Learn
how to teach your child cursive handwriting using the Handwriting
Without Tears™ curriculum. This workshop is scheduled for
one hour at the
Ardmore,
PA or Berwyn, PA, Studio.
Call Sandy Purvis (610-213-3334) to arrange for your workshop for Home
Schooling Parents.
Objectives for your cursive writer:
1. Determining whether your child is ready to start cursive.
2. Learning why cursive can be such a blessing for children.
3. Using the Handwriting Without Tears™ approach to
cursive letter formation, with step-by-step approach to each
letter and their connections.
4. Learning strategies for neatness.
5. Moving from copying cursive letters from a perfect model to
recalling cursive formation from memory to using cursive in
stories.
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