To help your children practice writing each new letter sound they have learned, a handwriting center may be set up in an area of your room.  Here are some ideas for this center.

Materials you may want to provide at the centers:

*Pipe cleaners for forming letters

*Precut burlap squares, yarn, large plastic yarn needles to stitch  letters

*Small wooden block to build letters

*Clay to form letters

*Various sizes and assortment of chalk boards and erasers for practice

*A long jump rope to form letter shapes

*Tactile letter made from cardboard squares.  Form each letter shape with white glue.  When it dries it will make a raised formation to the touch.

*I cake tin filled with salt or cornmeal to print letters in