We had the opportunity to review Homeschool Copywork and received a Lifetime Membership to the same from its creator, Amy Blevins.
Although I value the skill of good handwriting, the practice is one that has not been in our school for a few years. At one time, handwriting or copywork was part of our daily school schedule. I could see the positive difference in the handwriting of my children from daily practice. After a while, I became comfortable with their handwriting and time spent on it slowly disappeared.
Earlier this year, I started paying more attention to the writing assignments my children were submitting to me. I will not say my children have poor handwriting, but I definitely see room for improvement. Because of that, I introduced handwriting into our school again. It started with writing their names and different sentences I made up, but after doing that for a few weeks, the time became tedious. The opportunity to review Homeschool Copywork came just at the right time.
Homeschool Copywork is an online resource that offers copywork for children of all grade levels that include Early Elementary Copywork (preschool through first grade), Upper Elementary Copywork (second thorough fifth grades) and Junior High – High School Copywork (sixth grade and older). With hundreds of active resource pages for children of all ages, there are copywork pages for your student to practice their handwriting with sentences and to larger passages. Some of the handwriting themes are composer quotes, hymn studies, poetry, science, special occasion and more.
Amy also offers e-books in the Bonus! Product section of the website. This is where some of the really cool pages like Transportation, Shark, Learning Like a Ninja, Human Body and Human Life notebooking pages are found.
I let my children choose the pages they wanted to use, so they would be receptive to doing more writing than usual; get back to what we use to do. Some of the pages we used were ones that included The Poems of Emily Dickinson and Dragons of the Bible. Because some of my children would rather wash dishes than do more writing I rotated the days with the handwriting lessons. A few days, I would have them write. One day, they would use one of the coloring pages and another day, they would come up with their own
copywork content. For my younger child, I broke up the handwriting assignments where he worked on one copywork lesson for two days. Shortening his lesson and mixing up the type of worksheets they used each day made the days less boring and added more fun.Some of the features I really like about Homeschool Copywork is that there are pages for both boys and girls. It prompts boys, who may typically not like working on handwriting, with a number of pages of interest from which to choose. There are plenty of pages to take your child through more than one school year with pages they may complete each day. I also like that Amy includes pages with both manuscript and cursive, dotted lines for height spacing as well as some blank pages for children to be creative and write their own text.
Another benefit from using Amy’s copywork pages is the use of Bible verses as well as introducing them to poets and writers. Students may strengthen their knowledge of the Word with verse memorization while honing their handwriting skills. They will learn some celebrated poems written by notable poets, become familiar with the artwork of famous artists and as well as hymns that have carried through the centuries.
Homeschool Copywork has been a nice addition in our school. My children start the morning completing a page.
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