I am home schooling my 3 year old?

Question

I am teaching my 3 year old how to write her letters and I feel as if I am about to start to lose my patience...is there an easier way to teach her other than the workbooks....or maybe a more fun way that can help her catch on and get excited

Answer 1

my grandaugter is that age and  its  alittle early for school try letting them do it with web sites books and try ve teck  she loves to write and spell but only when she wants to do it gradually and they will soon get the hang of it try your local library they have many homeschool books with great web sites for all ages check it out

Answer 2

It could be that your 3-year-old is not quite ready to learn to write her letters.  My son, who is "cognitively gifted" did not begin printing legibly until he was 5, and it didn't improve a lot until he was 6.  He is now 7, and his printing is extremely good.

Each child is different.  Fine motor skills have to be developed to a certain degree for a child to learn to print; following is a link to an article on this subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_motor_...

Perhaps you can start with teaching her the sounds of the letters.  Starfall is a very good website for this, and it's a lot of fun; the link is below:

http://www.starfall.com/

Brightly Beaming is another good website for early literacy, learning letter sounds, etc.; they have a pre-school curriculum based on the "letter of the week.."  Please click on the link below:

http://www.letteroftheweek.com/

I hope this is helpful.

Answer 3

My 3 year old (coming up on 4 now) likes doing her writing practice BUT it's her choice, if she wants to do it then we do, if not then that's fine, I just offer it as one option. I think the important thing is not to push. The minute you make it something she's 'meant' to do and you're losing patience with her then it's a battle and it's not one you can win.

One thing I have found that can get a little practice in when she's not interested in practice for its own sake is project folders. We're working on a birds folder with photos of birds she's seen and she makes the labels saying what they are (me doing the letters in pencil and her copying over in felt pen) much gluing and cutting and talking about the birds included.

Oh, another one is cards, birthday, get well, whatever. Lots of fun making and decorating and then you need to write a message in it ;-)

All that said, every child is different and if your daughter just isn't ready for writing then there's nothing wrong with that, just relax and have fun doing the things she does like. They're not this young and fun forever :-)

Answer 4

I understand. The way I taught my child to write is we started by singing and letter recognition. Then we traced the letters of his first name with his finger. I let him hold crayons and color alot and when his hand eye coor. got good we started writing his name from there we worked on the rest.

Answer 5

3 year olds should be writing on the walls with their crayons---not learning to write letters.

You can't expect a 3 year old to sit down and learn something. It's just not reasonable. 3 year olds don't have attention spans long enough to put their socks on--how do you expect them to sit down and learn the letters of the alphabet and how to write them?

Let her be 3--don't push her to do things she's not ready for.

You'll know when she's ready..but right now it doesn't sound like she is.

Answer 6

I learnt heaps at her age by "playing school" (with the emphasis on "playing" rather than "school"!) I wouldn't try to pressure her into learning her letters for fear of discouraging her from future learning.

If she asks to play "school" then you could try introducing letters one at a time (our family uses the big multi-coloured fridge magnets and foam bath toys in the shape of letters and numbers with the young kids) and getting her to draw round the shapes etc.

You could also try introducing her to particular letters by making up silly songs together consisting of words that start with your chosen letter.

I'd purposely keep it as part of the game and nothing more serious than that though.