Box Font

Are you ready to play this game?

is for the tall letters: b, d, f, h, k, l, and t.

is for the small letters: a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, and z.

is for the descending letters: g, j, p, q, and y.

List all the words that can fit in the box.

ant

cat

cot

cut

eat

not

net

sit

set

sat

sad

...

Is that all?

Reminder: You can go to the Teachers Pay Teachers webpage and download "Hello Font".  It's free.  Or simply you can just draw the boxes and start playing.  Enjoy~!

Write Your Name in the Box.

This is a writing activity.  There are two ways of doing this activity.

(1) Have your child write his/her name in the box with a dry-erase marker directly on the plastic sheet protector. Each letter goes in each box.  You have to use a fine-tip marker for writing.  You can erase and write multiple times without killing trees.







(2) Make multiple copies of the paper and write on the paper with a pencil.

Surely you can try both or either way.  Here we're working on the writing alignment, letter size, and spacing.

I personally prefer my students to write in pencils because it gives more resistance on the paper while writing.  It means more bio-feedback to their little hands.  Anything more on kinetic sense and sensory feedback will help them with memory and simply better learning.  You can definitely use color pencils for fun.  Using colors in the activity will enhance their learning as well.

Try to stay with your child while he/she is working on this.  Please do not walk away while they are doing this.  Children tend to copy from one above.  It means if they make a mistake on one time, it is highly possible to make the same mistake on the following ones.  They need another set of eyes and praise on their work on-the-go.

How do you make the boxes for other letters??  This is actually a font.  Who could have a clue that boxes for tall letters, small letters, descending letters can be a font style??  Whoever thought of this is a genius.

A wonderful teacher, Ms. Ruiz who I work with this school year told me about this font.  Go on Teachers Pay Teachers website (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com) and search "Hello Fonts".  Download it.  It's FREE!

School Year 2015-16

Time really does fly.  It has been two full months already since this school year started.  I see my students become taller and more mature.  They are different youngsters day by day.  Certainly, they make me rolling and going.  It is truly a blessing to work with them and to learn from them.  

This is my 7th year of working with children in the elementary school.  To be honest, as I get to know each of my students throughout the elementary school period, I often feel my limit.  Most of my students really try their best during OT sessions.  However, their generalization skills or transfer skills are different stories in the classroom.  I am not trying to say that they are not trying their best in the classroom.  It is surely not easy for them to show their full potential in the classroom because of the task setting (i.e. pace of the task), more distracting factors in the big classroom, and so on.    

So I tried to provide therapy strategies and information to parents, caregivers, and guardians by sending school OT & PT monthly newsletters and posting therapeutic fun activities on the blog in previous years.  I believed giving parents therapy information would certainly help their children.  However, I found these are one way communication means. In NYC Department of Education, "parent engagement" is a biggy since last year. I want that "Parent Engagement/ Involvement" in my therapy sessions too.  So, I have met four parents in October.  I see positive signs after having the meetings with parents. Students talk about exercises that they do with mommy and daddy at home. They talk about using pencil grips when they do their homework.  It is exciting to see how parents learn and work with their children.  It will be another great school year!!