The girls have penmanship projects.
Our daughter, tired of not being able to read my handwriting, decided she desperately wanted to learn cursive:
Meanwhile I checked out some calligraphy books from the library to practice hand lettering:
We’re loving Robert Louis Stevenson poems right now and decided to copy our current favorites, “At the Seaside” and “Bed in Summer.”
Resources: Handwriting Without Tears alphabet reference chart (similar free downloads available here), A Child’s Garden of Verses Coloring Book
I remember LOVING doing handwriting exercises when I was Miss Leyba’s age (and older). Even though my handwriting never became the kind of beautiful penmanship you’d see among older generations who really practiced it over and over, I still get a kick out of writing by hand whenever I do. I’m afraid of it becoming a lost art.
Beautiful handwriting!! Yes, love the calligraphy! Also the poem “Up in a swing” — “How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the sky so blue ~ oh I do think it’s the pleasantest thing, ever a child could do….”