Simply love the free templates offered by ShabbyPrincess to create this calender desktops. I’ve been diligently creating one every month. Here’s an album of my work.

This month, I edited the design a little. I find that the original background paper is too bright resulting in some of my desktop icons getting ‘lost’. I prefer a plain, dark background. I’ve also added some text, ‘Xiang is learning to write. He is practising his pincer grip using fat crayons’.   

Yes. I am teaching Xiang writing. I’ve seen many students with poor handwriting, often a result of the incorrect way of gripping the pencil. I’ve searched the web for the correct way to hold a pencil with almost a nil return.

Hang’s form teacher commented that he has beautiful handwriting which I must give full credit to his pre-school teachers. I recalled his Montessori teachers telling us that the correct way to grip a pencil is using the pincer grip - gripping between the thumb and index finger, with the pencil resting on the third finger, and held at a slant. And this grip is best practised with fat crayons.

 So, Xiang and I have been having fun practising writing strokes (curvy snakes, slant rain drops, lines on rails, etc).