Handwriting

A few weeks ago Joelle posted about a handwriting Linkup that she had been wanting to put together based on 2 previous posts that she wrote. I read the other 2 posts and didn't really think anything of it at that moment. But as the day went on I really started to think how interesting it was that she keeps a sketchpad specifically for practicing handwriting. I personally have always thought my handwriting isn't half bad, cursive and printing. I would never think to "practice" perfecting it. So I decided to take on her challenge of writing a few simple things: my name & signature, blog name, where I live and a favorite song lyric.

Um, to my surprise, I actually wrote this 5 different times! And all 5 times it looked exactly the same .... not as great as I would like it to be. One thing that is interesting is seeing the 2 different types of writings together. If you look at her writing, the different types look like they just "match each other" (does that make sense?)

I hardly ever use cursive. And when I print, it's all caps, as you can see. Nowadays it's so easy to get lost in all of the technology that you lose sight of the simplest things, such as writing. I want to be able to teach my son how valuable good handwriting can be and so I will be taking note from Joelle and "practice" as much as can.