Handwriting/Copywork for next year

How about Presidential Penmanship cursive, third grade, in the style of your preference?

https://www.zeezok.com/presidential-penmanship

I dropped copywork for dd11 when her penmanship was very nice. She gets enough writing in her narrations and dictation. However, next year for 6th grade, we’ll add a Common Place book that will simply be her own.

DS8 has lovely cursive, too, but I intend to continue copywork next year for the practice b/c he won’t be writing narrations and does limited dictation with AAS. 

We like the Lighthome Publications books on Currclick. We started with A to Z Creepy Crawlers.  They come in a variety of topics and lengths. He’s doing the Character one right now. I also have one called Master Writers with loads of choices (sports, quotes, entertainment, etc.) and we’ll probably use that next.

Another good, simple resource (though the lines are a bit too small for my son yet) is the Evan-Moor Daily Handwriting Practice (also on Currclick). Each day has a 1/2 horizontal sheet and it includes things like days of week, geography terms, poetry, capitals with names, etc. I hope to use this next year.

I am also looking at something for next year, zeezok presidential looks nice, just wished they had a book, you need to pay for download and than all the ink to print it. I looked at Queens(from a friend), does not look like the book would be nearly enough for a year. I think I might wait for the next conference and see what they have there. Don’t know if it is a possibility for you!?

I’ll second Pictures in Cursive by Queen. The lessons are wonderfully short but thoughtful and beautiful. My 8yo will be doing PIC (she has gorgeous cursive already, but I do want the dedicated practice a bit longer) along with SW Book 1 starting in July. My 6yo has worked through Happy Handwriting and will move to Printing with Pictures from Queen. We are Queen lovers.

I’m probably the odd one here, but I disliked Queen’s Pictures in Cursive. The lessons were short, but the sentences were not what I would consider quality writing worthy of copying. “The dog is brown.” was not what we were looking for. We used the first book, after the primer I believe, but I wouldn’t use it again. Also, while the pictures were ok, but I don’t need them or the expense they added to the small book. We have our own picture study that we prefer and using higher quality images.

Just my 2 cents.

ETA: one book is not enought for a year IMO and book A costs $12.95. There were also connection errors between words on a few pages. That sort of thing bothers me when I use a paid resource.

Lindsey, check the resources on currclick. I found most of what I’ve liked there You may find something that will work. Also, there is another called Happy Scribe that has a variety of topics, but I can’t remember what I thought of it.