Handwriting

= If you teach formal handwriting lessons then you can save time by creating them beforehand = =The Foundation Font is the closest to New Zealand Handwriting=

=Download it to your computer. []=

= Interactive Whiteboard: Use your notebook software and write up all of your handwriting lessons. Leave a space for the date.= = = ==//Create Practice pages for individual students to try using the notebook pens//== = In one classroom recently I saw a child practising his handwriting using an ActivBoard. The teacher had made animations for each letter so that the child could see the formation of the letters. =

=Here is a Smart Notebook file using the Foundation font [|Foundation Handwriting example.notebook]= =Here is an example of a mimio ink file, the second page shows a movie of forming letters [|Handwriting.ink]= =Here is another mimio ink file using the Foundation Font. [|Handwriting.ink]=

=The [|Foundation font] is a perfect font for our New Zealand Schools. [|Download]it and use it to make Handwriting activities for your children.= == =One of the fonts is made of dots.= =Make tracing activities for the children of the letters they need to practice.= = = =One of my junior teachers that I work with finds Black and white images on Google Images and copies them onto her notebook software page.= =Children use these as tracing activities, great for students who need to practise fine motor control.= = =