A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Don't be surprised if they don't spend a lot of time on it.
Or if it becomes a pain this year and then next year it is never used again.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I still remember learning cursive in second or third grade. Writing the same letter five times in a string and being sure each of them was identical to the last. One of the most excruciating classes I can remember. Lasted 30 minutes a day. And, to add insult to injury, the teacher always praised the girls' work but never the boys.... LOL But I can still write a pretty mean hand in cursive....
I hope they spend a lot of time on it. I will do what I can to teach as well. Last year the boys picked up a menu that was in cursive, and they could not read it. So if nothing else, they need to learn it to read it.
My granny had beautiful hand writting. It looked almost regal.
Very close to calligraphy.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
This is one of the many reasons why we have Reagan in a private school. She started writing using the D'Nealean method in Kindergarten and was solely writing in Cursive by mid year First Grade.
There is SCIENCE behind the teaching of and use of cursive.
I mean hell, a man had to create a special print font that truly made the "b", "d", etc look different for those with Dyslexia. Cursive does that already.
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“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
C.S.Lewis
Granny used what very closely looked like Spencerian.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
My handwriting is some bastardized version of cursive & print. It is mostly legible though.
I do this, too. Didn't realize I did it until a teacher pointed out that since we were supposed to have blind grading on one certain paper that me and one other girl might want to type our papers (there was a choice between writing and typing) because our mixed print/cursive style was so distinctive.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
I've been told my handwriting is worse than a doctor's.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I do the print/cursive mix as well. I lost marks for it in grade 6 and wasn't allowed to write with a real pen. The teacher insisted that I put 'tails' on the end of my words. Screw that. I now deliberately don't do it.
I do the print/cursive mix as well. I lost marks for it in grade 6 and wasn't allowed to write with a real pen. The teacher insisted that I put 'tails' on the end of my words. Screw that. I now deliberately don't do it.
You rebel, you.
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Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug.
I was sooooo lucky when my class started learning cursive.
As a lefty, I had a hard time tilting the paper to the left.
When my teacher saw me trying to write, she came over
and tilted my paper to the right. Voila! I have excellent
cursive. I also do Speedwriting stenography (used to do
140 wpm for a 5 minute exam). Now I'm probably down
to about 60-70. That too is becoming a lost art.
