This class will help students develop confidence in their handwriting skills and alphabet knowledge. Through modeling, songs, and hands-on and developmentally appropriate activities, students will enjoy learning to write lowercase letters! The students will feel successful with my child-friendly words and step-by-step models to learn the strokes, correct placement, and correct orientation of each letter.  
Students will be introduced to the lowercase letters of the day and we will discuss the strokes of the letters. Students will use play dough to form the letter first, and then move to tracing and writing the letters on given worksheet with pencil, crayon, or marker. With repetition and language used for the strokes, correct letter formation will become automatic over time. 

In this ongoing class, students will learn two letters a day, with four worksheets each day. If you are unable to print the handouts, you can recreate them using markers or highlighters. The star is very important so please use a dark colored marker to draw the star, and a light colored marker to write the letter. 

Lowercase letters are more challenging than capital letters. Students taking this class should already know how to hold a writing utensil. If your child does not write capital letters independently, please check out my "Happy Handwriting: Roll-A-Letter, Write-A-Letter: Capital Letters" class where we focus on pencil grip and forming CAPITAL letters. I highly recommend taking my CAPITAL letters class before taking this class. 

Class structure: 
-Introductions and class expectations
-Hello song
-Discuss top, middle, bottom line
-Intro to first letter-of-the-day
-Small letter or tall letter?
-Roll-a-letter
-Discuss where to begin writing a letter
-Tracing and writing letter on given hand-out
-Intro to second letter-of-the-day
-Small or tall letter?
-Roll-a-letter
-Discuss where to begin writing a letter
-Tracing and writing letter on given hand-out
-Goodbye song

This is an on-going class that you can jump in at any time. Every class will have the same structure. To complete the alphabet will take 12 weeks. If you want to continue to make sure your child learns every letter, they will need to be subscribed for 12 weeks. 

Schedule: Week of: 
Sept. 4: Letters: v and w
Sept. 11: s and t
Sept. 18: c and o
Sept. 25: a and d
Oct. 2: g and q
Oct. 9: u and i
Oct. 16: l and k
Oct. 23: r and h
Oct. 30: n and m
Nov. 6: y and j
Nov. 13: p and b
Nov. 20: f and x
Nov. 27: z and e

The cycle of these letters with continue in this order. 

Your student will hear the same introductions and language used every class even if they began the first lesson because repetition is key in handwriting. Every class will be a little different in that every class will have two new letters. The discussion of letter L will be very different than the discussion of letter B. 

If class time allows, we will discuss the letter's sounds and objects that begin with the letters of the day. 
I look forward to meeting your child and helping them develop their handwriting skills!

I look forward to watching your student develop their handwriting skills!
Please let me know if you have any questions!

Please note:
**Playdough may contain wheat, which could cause an allergic reaction if ingested in those sensitive to wheat gluten or with Celiac disease.