Can I just say that I truly hate printing? Not printing, as in using one of these...
No, I'm thinking more along the line of, printing as in the opposite of cursive. It truly is the bane of writing. I literally do not know how to size them. I also don't know how to space them and I don't know how to make them look right without loops... I'm TERRIBLE with printing.
Back when I took the SAT, we all had to sign something along the lines of, 'I didn't cheat on this test, this work is my own,' with our signatures on the bottom, and it had to all be in cursive. I breezed through it, not even really thinking about it. But there was this one guy...clueless. Utterly clueless. Our test was in a middle school and along the top of the wall around the room there was a list of all the letters in cursive. And this poor, embarrassed guy had to literally sit there, and write a little bit, look up, write a little bit, look up, write a little bit, look up. More. Times. Than. I. Can. Remember. Because he had no idea how to write in cursive. Oh, and he ran out of room, too, because he was writing so big. Pretty much, everyone was laughing at him because it should not have taken him nearly five minutes to write one sentence and his own name.
Now that I'm having to practice my printing, I am seriously feeling like that guy from my SAT test. I know how to do my basic printed letters, so I'm one step beyond him, but I feel like I'm failing at it as I'm writing. I have no idea how to size or space my letters when they are not connected. I'm sitting there, as I'm printing my letters going, 'how on earth do I size these things?! And how far apart should they be??!" Truly, truly humiliating.
And with that out of the way, here is Lesson 16. And yes, I did actually do the printing practice.
Lesson 16 Practice words are; big enough for you to read on your own. I wrote them enough times myself already.
And here is my own work. My only comfort is that it's getting better. Oy vey.
