"When it comes to teaching handwriting to wary elementary students, Paula Heinricher said yesterday, teachers might want to incorporate foot-tapping, scuba diving and ditties into the lesson.
'Capital 'C' is tall, tall, tall. Lowercase 'c' is small, small, small,' Ms. Heinricher sang cheerily as about 20 teachers and occupational therapists waved their pencils aloft.
The group gathered in an Uptown hotel on National Handwriting Day to learn how to teach handwriting more effectively and creatively. As Ms. Heinricher tells it, the two go together like the intersecting lines on a lowercase 't.'
Take the song about letters, for example.
'When we put things to music, we remember them better,' said Ms. Heinricher, an occupational therapist"
'Capital 'C' is tall, tall, tall. Lowercase 'c' is small, small, small,' Ms. Heinricher sang cheerily as about 20 teachers and occupational therapists waved their pencils aloft.
The group gathered in an Uptown hotel on National Handwriting Day to learn how to teach handwriting more effectively and creatively. As Ms. Heinricher tells it, the two go together like the intersecting lines on a lowercase 't.'
Take the song about letters, for example.
'When we put things to music, we remember them better,' said Ms. Heinricher, an occupational therapist"
