What does your child's handwriting look like?

[cottonmama]

Please share pictures! Include your child's age and the handwriting font your child is learning (or learned on).

 

I can look at handwriting fonts all day, but I wonder how much of a difference the font makes in the end...

[nansk]

I have a sample, from about six months ago, in my album.

[boscopup]

This is from May, so just before he turned 7:

 

 

This is his best I've seen... He never does this well in copywork. It's also from this past May:

 

 

And yes, he was playing with italic t's in the first one. That was before I taught him italics, but he saw me practicing it. He used HWT print starting in January, and did ball and stick (:ack2:) at school. I had to remediate his writing with HWT. We're using GDI for cursive, slowly learning it.

[Satori]

We started with HWT until cursive, but tried to switch to GDI. By that time it was too late. She's developed her own handwriting that I don't think is easy to break. Here are some samples:

 

 

AAS dictated sentences:

 

 

 

[FairProspects]

This is from a couple of days ago.

 

Ds is 7 and learned to write with HWOT. Clearly, he is still learning the way apostrophes go as is evidenced by the huge practice one. But of course, those boys often have delayed fine motor skills...

[Jay3fer]

She's 6.5, and it all depends... on her own, she's still using all-caps - HWOT-inspired, but not quite "broken," in Angela's terminology.

 

Here's last week's parsha (Torah portion) weekly copywork:

And one she wrote all on her own. :-)

 

Big difference, but the important thing (to me) is that she writes uninhibitedly when she wants to and is more careful when it's schoolwork.

[veggiegal]

The 6 year old:

 

 

 

The now 9 year old (from when he was 8):

 

 

 

I don't stress about penmanship (perhaps that's obvious), other than insisting the writing be legible and unambiguous. My boys do a fair amount of writing every day (like these AAS lists above), but we've never followed a formal program. We've got things like HWT and Draw Right Now in the house, but my kids use them for consultation and checking more than practice.

[veggiegal]

Hmmm...posting the pics didn't work (obviously). Can someone give me a quick explanation of how to do so? Thanks!

[Jay3fer]

Hmmm...posting the pics didn't work (obviously).

They need to be HOSTED somewhere online, and then you click the "Insert Image" button (mountain landscape) and just paste the URL where your picture (JPG or GIF, I assume) can be found. Mine are on PicasaWeb. HTH!

[skueppers]

My daughter, who will be seven in November, wrote this last week. She was not focusing on the quality of her handwriting.

 

 

She learned manuscript handwriting from a German-language curriculum. She is also studying cursive from the same series (Einsterns Schwester).

[zenjenn]

Jay3fer, what is that Judaic copywork curriculum? Please share! :bigear:

 

My kids' penmanship varies dramatically depending on whether it is copywork or not (although my 9 year old's manuscript is fairly consistent at this point.)

[cottonmama]

:lurk5:

[myfatherslily]

From May, just turned 7, end of 1st grade. We used HWT in K (1st grade level) and followed the Phonics Road model since then, which is pretty much the same.

[Halcyon]

My son turned 6 two months ago. He has been using HWT but insists on his own "style". :glare:

 

[kitten18]

I must say. These all look very good. :001_smile:

[mytwomonkeys]

i'm going to try & share...not sure how:001_smile:

 

both of my children are still a work in progress. the cursive is my daughter & the manuscript is my son (he got spaghetti sauce on it, lol). both samples are from today.

 

i used HWT for both. i'll start my son in their cursive book next year. he's still sloppy, but i know writing is a process. he'll get it over time.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10287507@N02/6122488282/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10287507@N02/6122488966/

Edited September 7, 2011 by mytwomonkeys

[Wee Pip]

Here's a link to ours. Includes photos of my kids' pencil grips (a past and present issue), and also their handwriting.

http://teachafish.blogspot.com/2011/08/pencil-grips-and-handwriting-samples.html

 

We used HWOT in the beginning through 3rd grade, and then I dropped formal handwriting practice. Now we're working on Italics Cursive (I don't have any of those samples yet, since we just started).

[justamouse]

I'll post tomorrow!