Saturday, October 6, 2012

Organizing handwriting

At my school we do Handwriting Without Tears, http://www.hwtears.com/hwt .  The school adopted it last year but myself and another teacher piloted the program the year before.  I have really liked it and I think it has been a big help and improvement over years past handwriting.  In the program the students have books they write in but they also have chalk boards and wood peices to make the letters.  The wood peices come in boxes and there are enough wood peices in each box for about 3-4 kids, depending on the letter you are doing.  I had the boxes labeled with a number and the pieces in them with the same number, but it still took a lot of time for the kids to get out pieces.  It was the same for the chalk boards, once you got out the boards, chalk, sponges, and rags it took time.  This year is different.  I go the ideas for organizing my handwriting from one of my fellow teachers and it is working wonderfully.  The wood pieces are out of the boxes; they are still labeled but now there are bags for each student with enough wood pieces for any letter.  The bags are in tubs for each table.  The boards are in containers with the chalk and rags for each table. I did the same for the workbooks.   Each tub and container are labeled for each table.  So far it has cut down on pass out time considerably and is much more organized.  Here are some pictures:
Here is the shelf with all the tubs for the books, wood pieces, and chalk boards.

These are the containers for the chalk boards

Inside look

The bags with the wood pieces

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