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Octavio writing in cursive

Oops! Octavio’s teacher did not pay attention in the “f” lesson, but now he can do it right.

The “invented letters” are gone!

We are woking in the capital cursive letters.

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Progressing in Cursive‎

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Here a couple of pictures of Octavio working in cursive. ‎

He is using Zaner-Bloser 2C Workbook. He started making half page per day, now he is ‎doing two pages per day. He likes cursive very much and just to invented the letters that still he ‎didn’t know, but this week […]

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Cursive First!

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Octavio learned the steps to write print letters from a video. So, I was interested to try if ‎he can also learn the steps to write cursive from another video. The reality is that he can ‎learn cursive form any example, but in my personal case, my handwriting is, […]

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Learning to Write

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It all started when Octavio received a gift from one of my friends. It was the DVD ‎Winnie the Pooh ABC’s Discovering Letters and Words. I had not planned to introduce ‎writing before Octavio turned four years old, but to our surprise he started writing simple ‎words […]

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