[blparent] Penmanship.

[Brandy W., with Discovery Toys]

The program you speak of is not no tears, it is called writing without tears, and it is highly effective as is the method the Montessori schools use.

Bran


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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Creedy via blparent
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 4:51 PM
To: 'melissa R Green'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Penmanship.

Melissa, are you a Montessori teacher? My niece and nephew do Montessori. Very cool.

Michelle


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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of melissa R Green via blparent
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:39 AM
To: 'Judy Jones'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Penmanship.

I know that in many public schools have adopted a curriculum known as no tears penman ship.  The OT usually teaches this.  It has vidios and songs and also the kids get their own chalk and chalkboards.  I have seen this curriculum and it makes the children feel less stressful and they love the songs.  
I work in a Montessori school.  I teach letters and numbers and writing.  I use the wooden sandpaper letters, and I also use a screen board and both colored pencels and crayons to have them duplicate the letters and the screen board raises the letters up.  This way I can feel if the child is doing the letters correctly.  I also have a little notebook that was made for me with the letters in it.  Glue was taken and used to write the letters, and then a Braille letter was put above it.  

Sincerely,
Melissa R Green and Pj
"Real friendship understands the depths of true feelings and sounds of words unspoken."


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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones via blparent
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 9:02 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Penmanship.

Hi All,

I would like to find out what you all do regarding penmanship.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, by the time we started home schooling, our girls were middle school and high school.  They approached me, said public school was “rude,” and asked if I would consider home-schooling.

I had looked into several curricula by that time, so was an easy choice.  So, they had the penmanship thing down, and I did not have to worry about that one.

Thinking back, I may have asked for assistance from a friend, neighbor, or someone in our church.  But that’s the only thing I would have known to do.

I am an optacon user, so I did have chances to view their writing, but did not have the ability to give immediate feedback as one would write.

Before I was married, the public school classes I taught were foreign language, and when grading papers, hired a parttime reader to mark the papers how and where I told them to mark.  So I didn’t have to directly deal with it.

Here is a question maybe good for the blind educators list.  If anyone who is blind has had to teach penmanship, how did you do it.

Thanks for educating an old mom who is just curious.

Judy


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