This is available both as a live class and self-paced.  Feel free to message for time requests.  

Welcome to Ms. Jodi's classroom!  Let's open to the beautiful world of cursive handwriting through a multi-sensory, gentle, and beautiful method using animal books and stories, drawing, and handwriting practice.  Perfect for grades 1-5.  This is class one of a three part class.  We cover letters A-H in this class.  

Enter the world of Waldorf education, gifting your child with a relaxed, beautiful space to grow in cursive writing while receiving an elite private school education at home!  In this class, Ms. Jodi will introduce cursive letters and words in a meaningful and magical way.  Each week we will start with a story (folktale and animal stories or books) allowing the student to form a picture with the letters and words.  Students will draw a picture, forming a cursive letter into the picture. We will practice single letters from the story using both uppercase and lowercase letters (ex. practicing writing cursive Zz with a zebra story).   We will then write a sentence or a poem together in cursive. 

My teaching style is gentle, patient, and flowing with rhythm so that students know what to expect in each class and can relax into learning.  

Do students still need to learn cursive?  I believe it can beneficial, yes!  A recent study published in Frontiers Psychology Magazine states: “We suggest that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting and drawing activities in school to establish the neuronal oscillation patterns that are beneficial for learning. We conclude that because of the benefits of sensory-motor integration due to the larger involvement of the senses as well as fine and precisely controlled hand movements when writing by hand and when drawing, it is vital to maintain both activities in a learning environment to facilitate and optimize learning.”

Class Structure:

~Light Candle

~Story

~Drawing

~Writing