Font Opinion?

My 2 cents as a fellow mom.... if you want to help your child write check the local elementary and find out what they are teaching. Mine was teaching something called Denealian (sp?) writing. All the letters had what the kids told me were "monkey tails" on them to help them go into cursive when they hit 3rd grade. My kids could do some writing when they entered Kindergarten, but it wasn't what they were teaching. It wasn't that different, but my kids thought it was different. On the site you recommended earlier there were a lot of fonts for school and one looked like the one my kids learned. So, my thoughts are find out what they are going to be learning and make your ABC book match that. I'm sure the Kindergarten could give you a sheet to match up to the fonts.

thank you Lynne.. Could you tell me the name of the font you think it looked like so that I could see it? I would take your suggestion and go to the school but I don't even know where we will be living when she is old enough to go to school and plus I don't have a license yet to get there during the day.

Tabitha FL

Kindergarten

Mountain Lake's School Script Lined School Slant Lined School Slant Arrows School Script Arrows

It's under the "Links to printable handwriting practice worksheets"

Notice the "monkey tails" and the funky looking letter "k". That's the one that got me since my son has a "k" in his name.

Lynne

Gotcha..I also found this on the net too.. Its what you were talking about earlier. The type of writing that started with a D

Tabitha,

I've got some great clips of handwriting practice pages if you want them. I can either post here or email them to you if you like...

-CC

hey tabitha, as a pre-k teacher...i would say it might be easiest for her if you just started with the basic letter shapes. i LOVE the print arrow for later when she is ready to write more, but for now i'd probably just focus on letter recognition more. i'd be afraid the lines and arrows and such might be confusing. checking with the local school system would be a GREAT idea, but if you're not sure where she'll be going, i'd just stick to a really basic shape letter, so that it will be universal. just a thought, lori shay louisville

Thank you Jenn. No I'm just making it to help her learn her ABC's and just to see the letters and different things associated with that letter.

Tabitha FL

CC- Sure. You can email them to me :) Thanks.

Tabitha FL

Lori - Thank you. I thought it was a really cool font but I never thought of it as being confusing. I wasn't thinking like a little kid just the coolness of the font. The hard thing is finding the right font that I want to use. I've seen so many that I'm not sure which one to use. Nothing really jumps out at me.

Tabitha FL

I checked the site out where tabitha viewed that handwriting and was amazed to see how round and NORMAL lol the beginning alphabet was --- do you guys really start that over there? Ours is all squished and painful to try to remember :o) Shaz

Ok, then just go with a straight up block letter. I used CM bold letters for Matthew's ABC book. Also, if you haven't started it yet, for each letter use photos of object that are important to *her*. That way she can "read" the book herself and the objects are familiar to her. HTH

yes, very round and basic here for beginning. (most places, that is. different schools do different methods). we are teaching our pre-k pretty much exactly as that arrow font that was mentioned. extremely basic and straight-forward. lori shay louisville

Thanks for the reply Lori ---- its quite interesting to look at that font and compare with ours :o) At least there are alot more things written that look like the straight forward writing which I think is great Shaz