Another fun activity through which the child learns the letter formation is writing in sand. You can prepare a simple sand tray for practicing writing. I took a plastic lid from a chocolate box and filled it with some clean sand (just enough to cover the bottom). When the child uses his finger to write letters in sand, his whole arm is moving. He is getting the feel of the roundness or straightness of the shape of the letter. When the child is just beginning to learn to write letters he can see the letter that he wrote and compare it to the one that he is looking at. Later on this exercise can be used to check if the child remembers how to write a certain letter (instead of writing with pen/pencil on paper). That is what I am doing with Ania:
A blog about multilingual and multicultural family homeschooling their two children in Taiwan, Poland and Japan. (Third "child" grew up, and after starting her own company decided to go to school in NYC.) Blog wielojęzycznej i wielokulturowej rodziny uczącej dwójkę dzieci w domu na Tajwanie, w Polsce i w Japonii. (Trzecie dziecię dorosło i po założeniu firmy w Japonii wyjechało na studia do Nowego Jorku.)