January 23 is International Handwriting Day, Free Handwriting eBooks for Kids

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I remember, and it wasn't THAT long ago, where the excitement of receiving a long-awaited letter or postcard was surmounted only by the actual receipt of it. During the times of the African Bush War when we wrote to our friends and family who were serving in the Armed Forces, that letter, regardless of how long or how short, was one of the few things that the soldiers had to look forward to.

When I have traveled abroad sans my offspring, the first thing I do is send out masses of postcards, and then more from every new town, city or monument. I don't think for one moment my children will keep the postcards for longer than a few weeks at most, so upon my return have been known to rally around and collect all of those which not only serve to remind me of my visit, but also sport the authenticity of actually having been posted - with a REAL stamp.

Of course we sent out emails, text messages and the like, but to writ a card or a letter individualizes the action, makes it personal.

There's nothing quite like looking at the proud and fierce determination as your little one settles down to write his or her name. While 6 year old Aiden is 3 years ahead in his reading and further ahead in computers than I am, his writing took a bit of a back seat until recently when we started our homeschooling in earnest. I almost burst with pride when I looked at him concentrating on getting the perfectly rounded letters to form his name "AIDEN"... and then he discovered the joys of an eraser when the line didn't quite go as straight as he would have liked... and then the joys of a ruler to rule off while he had another attempt at perfection...

Children need to be ready to start learning from their very first day at school. If they are homeschooled children this can effectively commence at the age preferred by the homeschooling parent/educator. Usually this is younger than the conventional starting school-age. Whilst I use the term "Teaching your child..." I am mindful of the fact that children have the natural ability to learn, a curiosity and inquisitiveness to learn and explore, and hence my use of the word "teaching..." is used within the context of guiding and assisting a natural-born learner.

I devised handwriting, early reading, writing and alphabet picture dictionaries focusing on letter/word/picture relationships, as well as early phonics and would be thrilled if you'd like to download any or all of them, with my compliments.

This set of 6 ebooks are around 25 to 40 pages each and are very simple handwriting tracing/practice exercises, with other fun activities as well. There is a book of simple words and sentences for each letter of the alphabet. They can be found at this link.

Children learn by repetition, and what easier way than to provide them with a book filled with fun pictures, and associated words which they can practice tracing over or writing on the training lines on each page. Fun puzzles will enhance this learning experience.

These Full Color Books are suitable for early education but can be adapted for younger or older children. The purpose of these books is word/picture and sound/letter recognition. These books are ideally used in conjunction with other activity books where Picture Quests or Word Quests form part of the activity, but are a fun and colorful addition to any classroom or homeschool library.

Please click on the image to take you to the download page.

With Aiden, more so probably than with the other children given his 3 year advancement on reading, I am enforcing the reading/writing relationship. He can at age 6 by no means write the words he can read, he just hasn't had the handwriting experience to enable him to comprehend what he is writing when he is writing, while he certainly can and does whilst reading.

For the other girls, when they were younger, I devised a set of Early Readers, a book for each letter of the alphabet, combined with handwriting exercises, focusing on extremely simple words. The colorful pictures and activities will enhance the learning experience, and because the ebooks are adaptable to older or younger learners, extension exercises are readily available.

Enjoy, with my compliments! Please click on the image to take you to the download page.