Kindergarten Handwriting Resources

Pre-K is working hard to get our upcoming Kinders ready!

1. More gross and fine motor skills

2. Increased intentionality

3. Crawling races, scooter boards, writing on the floor on butcher paper

4. Use of sensory bins to explore letters

5. Deeper Questioning

6. Needed materials are easily accessible to students when they need them

7. Lots of opportunities for cutting

8. More intentionality in gross motor and crossing midline

9. Task boxes–offered variety while practicing fine motor skills

10. Balance beams and stepping stools during carpet time

All of these gross and fine motor activities are helping develop the strength to ready themselves for systematic handwriting instruction, which will begin in Kindergarten.

It is imperative that we continue to teach systematic handwriting every day in K, not just in 1st semester.

It doesn't just have to be paper and pencil!

See below for a list of fine motor activities and resources that will help students perfect their handwriting:

1. Sky Writing

2. Trace with finger on a partner's back.

3. Trace with finger on carpet

4. Fine Motor Journals for fast finishers (see resources below)

5. Wikki Sticks

6. Shaving Cream

7. Sand

8. Using color coded resources for sentences (see resources below)