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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (4406)	12/17/2013 11:30:42 PM
From: N. Dixon	Respond to of 4710

We need to bring back two things: diagramming sentences and cursive writing. It's how it helps form a child's thinking that makes it valuable, not if they'll use it later in life. Cursive teaches spatial orientation. In Kindergarten you learn shapes, but a triangle is the same whether upside down or sideways. I used to tell the parents of my first graders to play tic tac toe with their children using "b" & "d" or "p" & "q" Basically the same shapes but different meaning based on orientation. The rule is "if you write down my letter, I get the square" This heightens their focus. It was a great way for me to determine who was dyslexic and adjust accordingly. Cursive writing requires those same decisions. They are like a maze to a child determining which direction each stroke needs to take. But now teaching is just determined by the Federal Government mandates of NCLB (No Child Left Behind), which I used to call "No Teacher Left Standing" Taught in the projects 5 years ago and was horrified at what has transpired. And speaking of Montana, I did a lot of workshops there, Billings, Kalispell (even Colstrip!) and the best fly fishing in West Yellowstone. My father and brother are both deer hunters (on horse) and would go to cull the herds. We grew up camping and fishing. I never took to hunting (Bambi and all that) but I love venison and elk is incredible if cooked well. A friend ran an elk hunting camp in Jackson Wy. We went out with him to round up the appaloosas and I learned to bury my fire and put my sleeping bag on that. Kept me toasty warm. ND