{"id":396,"date":"2015-11-13T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:43:15","slug":"learning-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/learning-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Letter\/Number Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are utilizing\u00a0the <strong>Handwriting Without Tears <\/strong>approach. The most important habits to teach children are: holding a pencil\/crayon correctly, using the helping hand, and starting your letters at the top. When forming letters,\u00a0we\u00a0use small lines, big lines, small curves and big\u00a0curves. Letter formation\u00a0is taught using wood pieces, play dough, magnetic stamps, chalk boards, and of course, paper and pencil. The letters are taught in this order:<\/p>\n<p>Ll, Ff, Ee, Hh, Tt, Ii, Uu, Cc, Oo, Qq, Gg, Ss, Jj, Dd, Pp, Bb, Rr, Kk, Aa, Mm, Nn, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the Handwriting Without Tears site below to get more information and ideas about developmentally appropriate ideas to use with your child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwtears.com\/files\/Letter%20Formation%20Charts.pdf\">https:\/\/www.lwtears.com\/files\/Letter%20Formation%20Charts.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are utilizing\u00a0the Handwriting Without Tears approach. The most important habits to teach children are: holding a pencil\/crayon correctly, using the helping hand, and starting your letters at the top. When forming letters,\u00a0we\u00a0use small lines, big lines, small curves and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/learning-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/maktari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}