Is he left handed (the one writing funny)? My daughter is and she writes that way a lot and I’m trying really hard to keep my lefty son from doing the same. Home schooled as well. Do you belong to a home school association? How about co-op? they both have PE programs here and that’s what we do to help with the sports. The four yo sounds about right on track the writing will improve as time passes and those are my 5 yo favorite activities. Try letting him write in a bowl of sand or on a dry erase board or anything he can mistake for pure fun. My son plays a lot on www.starfall.com its a free phonics site and we work a couple of worksheets a day in phonics handwriting and math and leave it at that right now. If you want a good handwriting program try Handwriting Without Tears. I know you can get it at www.sonlight.com

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Motor is stream. Gross motor are the better stream skills including kicking a ball. great motor are smaller strikes normally having to do with ideas-eye-hand coordination. The projects suggested are the main hardship-loose, yet as you watch your newborn each and every day you will see others. Zipping, buttoning, putting blocks right into a cube are some examples.

I believe threading activities are good for fine motor skills like writing. Also tracing and dot-to-dot is a fun way as well as using stencils. It sounds to me like he is ahead of most if he can already cut with scissors. Jigsaws are good for fine motor skills too. Your 6 year old sounds like he just needs a bit more practice. Plenty of praise when he does do his letters correctly. When they start joined up writing he wont have much choice but to start at the top tbh.

Hi, in the past while being an early childhood educator, I found that making a “connect the dashes” kind of letter writing practice worked best. (ex. – – – – – -). Also, recent studies say that there is a huge variance in the speed of growth and development within a single age group in early childhood. So, I wouldn’t worry at all!! and also, you have all the right ideas in toys already. “Play” is the best curriculum for promoting growth in all developmental areas.

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and -teach- them how to do it. It does not magically develop on it’s own .

As far as motor skills, drawing, legos, blocks, and that sort of thing.