Cursive First

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  • January 21, 2011 at 4:09 am
    missceegee
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    Personally, I used Cursive First and had terrific results. I do not recall about the over and under curve, but it didn’t matter – dd10 has lovely penmanship. For ds6, I used Pencil Pete software – again with great results. 

    I needed simplicity for penmanship and both of these programs fit the bill. I can’t speak to suzukimom’s experience, but CF was great for us and I just wanted to offer that perspective.

    Blessings,

    Christie

    January 21, 2011 at 4:26 am
    suzukimom
    Participant

    Christie…  just gotta share because I’m chuckling here…

    I knew you were going to post that… lol!

    January 21, 2011 at 4:31 am
    missceegee
    Participant

    Yeah, different strokes for different folks and all that jazz!Wink

    January 21, 2011 at 2:52 pm
    Rebekahy
    Participant

    Do you ladies feel you really needed a curvise “program” to teach handwriting?  What about just using the free worksheets available on Donna Young’s website – have you seen those?

    I have to admit, I’m not great at using curriculum – we have handwriting without tears and barely ever use it… because I feel like my girls need MORE practice than pages provided, so for some reason, having to come up with extra practice pages paralyzes me and I just stop using the whole thing, rather than using a lesson from the book and then adding more practice.  I’m of the mindset (or inclination) that if I’m printing out one page, might as well print out everything, hole punch it and put it in their notebook so it’s all in one place (I also hate copying). 

    Thanks!

    Rebekah

    January 21, 2011 at 3:05 pm
    suzukimom
    Participant

    Yes, I had the cursive “lesson making” font from Donna Young – but I still didn’t know how to go about teaching it… so yes, I needed a program.

    Also, the Donna Young fonts, and most other programs, encourage tracing the letters, which Peterson Directed handwriting says is detrimental to getting fluent in handwriting.

    I am now using her font to make copywork sheets though, as I can setup the lines like I want, and have a cursive model to follow….  I’d love to have the Peterson font, but that was too expensive…

     

    January 21, 2011 at 3:16 pm
    missceegee
    Participant

    I used Cursive First and Pencil Pete to teach the formation of the letters. You can certainly do this on your own, but I wanted simplicity. When I need more sheets, I use startwrite to make some quickly and easily. Now dd does copywork of her choice mainly into a Commonplace Book and ds is using Queen’s Pictures in Cursive. 

    Oh, I should say that I’m picky. I want something that starts all lowercase from the baseline, uses smaller lines, etc.

    August 12, 2014 at 4:04 pm
    mrskatie
    Participant

    I have my Cursive First curriculum up for sale. We are moving soon so I am trying to thin out and thought someone from this forum might want to try it.  

    I laminated all the cards, so it’s a nice set – a few cards have gotten bent but over all everything is in like new condition. I would like to get $25 for it (postage paid). I have a picture of it on my twitter account here: pic.twitter.com/b3NkO7F3Km

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