This spring Satori noticed cursive writing somewhere. I don’t know where, but all of a sudden her handwriting was looking strange and she was touting about her new “writing”. Finally it dawned on me what she was trying to do – write cursive! I wrote her name neatly in cursive and she copied it. This page was from over a month ago.
She continues to try to write cursive, although I haven’t given her any instruction except to write her name that one time and explain that it is cursive. Here she wrote what I’m assuming to be “grocery store”.
I promised we would start her Cursive Handwriting (HWT) book once she’s finished her HWT Grade Two Printing Power. At our rate, we should finish this book in August, so we’ll be starting Cursive way sooner than I originally planned. We always went fast through these workbooks, Satori couldn’t wait to learn how to write.
She also mimics calligraphy or serif print sometimes.
Our Grade 2 book covers helpful concepts in Language Arts, such as this mini-lesson in word spacing.
And this lesson yesterday about apostrophes, which thankfully we covered last week in our reading program.
It also inserts mini-lessons in science and art. Today she copied a paragraph on art.
