Hi @homeedders friends, this week we have been going through the alphabet with Isabella and math with Diego. They really learn very fast and their processes are already more self-regulated. I am so amazed at how quickly everyone can choose how to do the activities, plus they themselves remind us that they have their study time at home. When @homeedders told me that I was going to be impressed with the way they were going to assume their study routines at home I didn't quite believe it, because well my children are very young and to think that they would have a learning routine at home was hard for me and my wife because it was a little difficult for us to assume the role of tutors.

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But that's how well we are doing, Isabella has to take her letter test this week, so she needs to practice her letters because when we take her to school we can't stay with her while she takes her test. She likes the primers and the colors, so we decided to implement a strategy we read on the internet called review and color the letters. For this we used the children's calligraphy books and we drew on the lines with the dot technique the letters and the bottom part the big letter so that she could paint it when she finished going over the small ones.

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With her we started with the pencil so she could go over the dotted letters but since they were in black we realized that she got bored and sometimes she didn't realize when she was missing a letter because we did the dots with black marker. So we decided to let her use the colors so that in addition to learning the shape of the letter she could have fun and be creative with the use of the colors.

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This strategy was very significant Isabella managed to fix the letters, we are still, with others of the alphabet but the first ones already practiced she learned them and we continue on our path of being parents and teachers of our children, although it is not an easy job I can tell you that it is the best in the world because every time they reach an achievement we do it too.

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The only detail was that she asked the teacher to be able to use colors and since the teacher said no, because calligraphy was done with pencil, she drew some stars in the corners of the paper. That's why they called our attention to us for allowing her to use colors instead of pencil, I really think it is not necessary to be so strict with children so young if in the end what was wanted was achieved and it was the learning of handwriting.