Charlene TS #4 Child

I met with Nayun today at the Northeast Branch of the Leon County Library. Nayun's mother had her little brother with her, and had to "entertain" him while Nayun and I worked. I had come well armed with many handwriting sheets so that we could practice handwriting today, her Nayun's father's request. Nayun and I went through every upper and lower case letter in the outfit that. She formed every letter very well. She didn't have to rewrite many letters. She was able to demonstrate that she knew proper form by tracing all of the letters in the proper directions before going on to write rows of need letters on the tablet provided to Her. This took quite a bit of time. I had noticed in the beginning, that Nayun wrote very quickly. I asked her to slow down and pay attention to her letter formation, and she did so. I discussed this with her little bit. She says that she likes to write fast. She was able to say that she does have a better handwriting which he writes more slowly, and agreed to write a little more slowly when she does right. Since this child has been able to do everything I have asked of her thus far, I had also, to the lesson today with worksheets showing how to write D'neilian Cursive Script. I praised Nayun for having written such nice lettering and printed script. I then asked her if she wanted to try cursive. She said that she did. Prior to this lesson, I had found that D'neilian script is now the preferred script for schools that teach cursive writing. It is full her and rounder than previous scripts, and it is easier for children to make the switch from printing to D'neilian and script. I modeled several letters for Nayun, including capital K, capital N, and lowercase a, i, e, c, n, u, and l. I did not have to tell Nayun to write slowly; she did so and appeared to be trying her best form the letters. Her attention did not waver. I assume from this exercise that if she is doing something at least a little bit challenging, her attention is not an issue. I praised her for doing such a good job, and asked her if she wanted to do something a little bit more fun. Of course, she said that she did. I then retrieved a colored pencil set that I have picked up really cheaply from an art store. This was like a paint by numbers set with colored pencils. From the two I had, and Nayun chose the one with dolphins. She began to color in the picture with the tiny little pencils provided by the set. I had chosen this exercise for her, specifically, because it is intended to help her develop fine muscle coordination and her hands. After a short time, our time was up and I returned Nayun to her mother. We agreed to meet again next week at the library.

Nayun's mother told me that the family will be leaving for an extended visit to Korea this summer sometime in the middle of May.