(upbeat theme music) - Ms. House, Ms. House.

I need your help.

Ms. House - Frisbee, Frisbee, calm down, calm down.

What's going on?

- Oh, thank goodness you're here, Ms. House.

I got to sign my name and I, I have no idea how - You need to sign your name.

What, what are you trying to write?

- Oh, it's a thank you letter.

And I need to sign my name at the end of it.

Otherwise they won't know who it's from.

- It's very true.

And learning how to sign your name is a very important skill that you have to learn.

So I, I think I can help you with this.

- (gasp) You're the best.

- Well, in order to sign our names, we have to use special kinds of letters that are called cursive letters.

- (gasp) A curse.

- It's not a curse.

It's cursive.

- Oh, oh, oh There's a difference.

- Cursive.

Yes.

Cursive letters look a little bit different than those stick letters that we learned in elementary school.

- (gasp) Did you say stick?

- Why do I always do that?

- Oh, I got one right here.

- Oh stick.

Of course.

- Oh, I got, I got another one.

- Sticks, two sticks.

- Here's a third - Enough, enough sticks, Frisbee.

That's enough sticks.

Where did you get three sticks from?

- I always have a spare supply.

- Well, that's probably a good idea there, buddy.

I'm going to move your sticks over here.

If that's okay with You?

- That's okay.

Just don't bring 'em out of my eyesight.

I need to know where they're at.

- Okay.

I'm going to leave them right here.

Okay.

All right.

Well, I'm going to be sure and not say that word again.

- Okay.

- I don't want any more of those things to come up here when we're trying to learn something important.

- I got a whole bundle down here.

- I bet you have a whole rick of wood down there.

So when you print letters, we use lots of straight lines with very few curve lines.

But when you write in cursive you write those letters very curvy.

- Ooh - Exactly.

So when we write in cursive, you connect each letter to the letter that's in front of it and behind it.

- Wow, it sounds like you may get dizzy.

- Well, you might get a little dizzy trying this but did you know Frisbee that you can write an entire word without even picking up your pencil one time - (gasp) That sounds like magic.

- It is magic.

It's the magic of cursive.

- Cursive - And cursive writing is really supposed to help you write faster and it looks beautiful when you do it correctly.

- Well, great.

Let's get going.

- And you have to know how to write cursive to sign your name.

- (gasp) That's what I need it for.

- That's exactly right.

So the motion of writing cursive is a little bit different than when we get to write those straight letters that we learn in elementary school.

So in printing, we typically write with our hands going like this up and down and side to side sometimes even diagonally.

But in cursive our hands kind of go all over the place.

- Woo woo - That's exactly right.

So our, our motions are fluid and loopy.

- Mhmm - So let's look at some of these letters.

If you look at some of these letters you can see that there's hardly any straight lines on those letters.

And there's lots of curves.

- Curves, very curvaceous.

- It is curvaceous.

So let's try and write Frisbee's name.

- Okay.

- Now to write your name I have to start with the first letter.

What is the first letter of your name, Frisbee?

- Well, it's F of course!

- F and F I'm going to be honest is one of the trickiest letters to write in cursive.

So watch close.

- Okay.

- All right.

I'm going to start.

I'm going to make a little loopy curve.

I go across and then I'm going to come down and go like that.

- Wow.

- I know it looks a little silly, doesn't it?

- A little bit.

- It does, but that's the beauty of cursive writing is that I'm going to keep going.

And as I'm writing your name, you're going to see it start to emerge.

- Okay.

- All right.

So let's go on.

I'm going to go on now.

Now that I've done the F I'm going to come down and make the R okay.

There's the R the I the S the B and the E and the E. And then I have to come back and I have to dot the I and then I'm going to cross my little F on the top.

- Oh.

- So if you look now, I can write that letter or that whole word without picking my pen up until I have to go back and dot that I.

- Oh yeah, of course.

Those are important - They are important.

Let's go ahead and try one more word.

I'm going to try your favorite word of bark - Bark - I love writing a cursive B. I think they're beautiful.

And if you watch me, my pen does not leave a single time.

- Wow.

- I wrote that whole word without picking up my pen once - What was the word?

- Bark.

- Bark.

- It was bark.

Well, Frisbee.

Do you think you're ready to write your name?

- Oh, I think so.

But you may have to help me.

- I will help you but first let's get all your stick dirt off here.

- Oh, yeah.

- Here's we go, here's your pen.

Okay there's your pen.

- Wow, I dropped it.

- Oh oh I'm going to hold the pen with you.

- Okay.

- We're coming down.

Let's do your F you ready?

Oh, do you feel those curve?

There's our F R I S B E and E Frisbee!

You wrote your name!

- Oh goodness, Ms. House, thank you so much.

Now I can get a driver's license.

- You can get a driver's license.

I cannot wait to ride in the car with you Frisbee.

- Whoa.

Yeah, it's going to be a great time.

- Oh my goodness - I can deliver this thank you letter.

- Well, I hope you all practice all of your cursive writing and you'll come back for more fun with Arkansas Rise and Shine.

- Do you have any stamps?

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