Teaching kids how to hold a pencil correctly - prep teachers help please!

[mrsmac]

Leash- I teach my class that one too!! I say that the thumb is the steering wheel and index is mum and dad driving, the 3 kids are in the back but the middle one is Jess (my DD) and she is learning to drive so she watches closely but sometimes she is naughty and tries to get into the driver's seat LOL The kids love it, you hear them saying "oh no Jess is trying to drive again!!"

[Curly]

Okay I won't sweat it too much...he seemed to pick up the "3 finger" grip quite easily and if that is acceptable then that's great...he was just tending to hold his crayons and textas in his fist like he was going to stab something and I thought he should be guided a bit. It's only something I've been doing for the last couple of months.

I love that driving analogy, that's awesome! Thank you!

I'm not teaching him writing or anything yet, the most I do is try and get him to draw shapes, and he likes to colour in pictures, but when I do start teaching him to write letters I'm going to print out a sample of Queensland's foundation handwriting. I've already been told not to teach him to write his name in capital letters because then his prep teacher will have to unteach that!

[Indadhanu]

LOL mrsmac thats so funny!!!! Great that it goes down well too hehehe

[Oorki Galoorki]

Ohh i would fail now
my pen rests on my ring finger then middle and index rest against the pen and my thumb loops over the top resting on the second knuckle of my index finger.

[Indadhanu]

OMG I had to actually do that to work out how you hold your pen and WOW! Now thats SKILL

[Oorki Galoorki]

haha i think it sounds worse then it is...