I have different learning themes every week and cover A and #1 in the first week of Jan. and work all the way to Z and #20 in the last week of August. This is my way of preparing the children for JK and the repetitive way I teach indoors and outdoors as we craft and sing and walk and talk and play is planting all the little seeds into their minds that they can call on later in life. Yes I agree that shapes and colours and letters and numbers and fine motor movement is all important.

However, I am not responsible for making sure a child can print their name or even one letter! I just had a little boy graduate who would not even try anything regarding sitting and working on printed pages. But after just a couple of months in JK he can now print his name, recites the alphabet over and over (which he would never even try for me) and so much more. It was IN THERE! He just didn't want me to know he was paying attention.

Don't sweat it, just do your best.