Wait.
No. Hi there. It's great to see you again. I
was just going through some of my mail. Here's one from my friend Marlow the
mouse. Let's see what Marlo has to say. Uh, it's kind of
hard to see because it's so small.
That's better. Dear
Roxanne, I want to make a marvelous milkshake
with my mother, but the milk is missing.
May I borrow some best regards?
Marlowe? Mmm. I don't think I
have any milk, huh?
No, not here.
Hey, uh, does anybody have any milk?
Milk? No, no, no. Uh,
okay. Thanks, Mr Warthog. Nice
guy, but a teeny bit sloppy when he eats, You know,
moral used a lot of words that begin with m.
Like make
marvelous milkshake.
My mother
milk missing,
May and Marlowe.
It seems like a good time to practice the letter M. Let's
start with the uppercase M. Theo.
Uppercase M begins with a tall vertical stroke
and goes from the headline down to the baseline.
Lift your pencil and go back to the headline
slant right down to the baseline,
Then slant up to the headline and end by pulling down
to the baseline.
Okay. How many times do you lift your pencil when writing the
uppercase M once. Now, before
you start writing, make sure you're sitting up straight with both feet on the floor. You
also need paper and pencil ready to go. And now
it's your turn. Pencils up. Put your
pencil tip at the beginning of the headline on the top of your paper.
Make a tall vertical stroke that pulls from the headlines
straight down to the baseline. Now
lift back to the headline slant right
down to the baseline, Then slant up to
the headline and finish with the tall vertical
stroke that pulls down to the baseline.
Try it again. Place your pencil Here
on the headline. Now pull straight down to
the baseline, Lift back to the
headline and slant right down to the baseline.
Slant back up to the headline
and finished by pulling straight down to the baseline.
Come on. Try writing another one. Place your pencil
here on the headline. Now pull straight
down to the baseline, lift
back to the headline and slant right down to the
baseline. Slant back up
to the headline and finished by
pulling straight down to the baseline.
I know the M is going to take lots of practice because there are so
many strokes. So try one more uppercase M. But this
time you'll write the rest of Marlo's name
spelled wrong. Poi
poor. Oh, hello.
Okay, Marlowe it is. Try to keep up.
Start the uppercase m on the headline Hold
down to the baseline, then lift
back to the headline. Now slant
right to the baseline, Slant
up to the headline and straight
down to the baseline. The next two letters in
Marlo's name R A and R
Start here just below the midline and circle back
word all the way around and up to the
midline pulled down to the baseline and stop.
As for the R, put your pencil on the midline and
pulled down to the baseline. Push back
up per forward and
stop just below the midline Onley. Two more
letters for Marlo, L and O
to make the lower case l put your pencil on the headline
and pull straight down to the baseline
to make Theo put your pencil here, just below the
midline. Now circle backwards all the way
around to finish. And that's how you write the name
Marlowe. Predictably, geeky, blinking like, Hey, I
think that's Marlo right now that
Marlowe. I was just talking to my friends about you. I read the letter you wrote. I'm
sorry, but I don't have any milk for your milkshake. Like Yu gi. Oh,
already finished your milk shake. So, what do you want now? You be good when
your money. Money? Uh, I'd like to help you there, Marlowe,
but we have to get back to practicing our writing. Oh,
scruples owes you some money. Oh, let him know. The next time I see
him, I get like me. Okay. Bye, Marlowe. You anyway,
you haven't practiced the lower case M yet. It's pretty different from the
uppercase m watch. The
lower case M starts on the midline with the short vertical
stroke to the baseline. Then it pushes up
curves forward on the midline and pulls down to the
baseline without lifting your pencil. It
pushes up again, curves forward and
pulls back down to the baseline to finish.
Pretty different, huh? How many times does the pencil lift?
Not even once. Well, at least not until you're finished.
Think you can do it? Okay, pencils up.
Place your pencil on the midline, pulled down
to the baseline, push up
cur forward and pulled down to the baseline.
Push up again, cur forward
and pulled down to the baseline to finish.
Not so hard, right? Come on! Try writing another one.
Start on the midline and pulled down to the
baseline. Push up cur
forward and pulled down to the baseline.
Push up again, cur forward
and pulled down to finish. Try it once
more on Lee this time, Write a word with the lower case M
How about the word male? Neither
rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow. The
male always comes through or something like that.
It's celled Elling Oh, I
oh, Are you sitting up straight and have your paper and
pencil ready? Then you're ready to write.
Start on the midline, pull down to the
baseline, push up, curve
forward and pulled down. Push
up again, cur Forward and pull
down. The next two letters are lower case
A and I start here
and circle back all the way around up to the
midline. Then pull down to the
baseline. Make the lower case I
next to the A, starting with the short vertical stroke
then dot the I. You should know the last letter,
right? It's an l start the l
at the headline and pulled down to the
baseline. And there it is. Male,
I hear scribbles. We haven't had a chance to talk to him all
day. Come on. Hi. What's that? You're
drawing a vase full of
violets. My those air. Beautiful.
Well, sure, I can help. The words Vase and
Violet both begin with the letter. We? Well,
that's right. We haven't written the letter V yet. By the way, the
uppercase and lower case V look a lot like each other.
You don't believe me? Well, just you watch, Buster.
Remember Blue Purple. The lower case V starts on the
midline and slants right down to the baseline.
Then without lifting its lance back up to the midline
room. What? Go ahead and try it.
Um, that's a good try, but the first stroke you make should be slanted. You
made a short vertical stroke. Try it again.
See if you could do it. You keep practicing.
Now it's your turn to right. Let's show scribbles how to make a V
pencils ready? Okay. Hey,
why don't you make a word out of it scribbles a beautiful vase of
violets. So how about the word these
days is spelled the oh,
start with the vey First, put your pencil on the
midline slant right to the baseline,
then slants back up to the midline. The lower
case A comes next. I hope you've been practicing.
Put your pencil here, just below the midline circle
all the way around and push up to the
midline. Now pull down to the
baseline. Let's keep going with the lower case
s, leave a little space and place your pencil here
below the midline curved back
curve forward and stop just above the
baseline Be a s.
And the last letter is a lower case E
start below the midline here and slide to the right
without lifting circle backward and
stop just above the baseline. And you just wrote the
word face everything.
What? You don't believe that the upper and lower case V looks the
same except that one is taller than the other, Huh? All I
can say is watch and learn, my friend
Thea Uppercase V starts on the headline
and slams right all the way down to the baseline,
then, without lifting its lance back up to the
headline, huh?
See, I told you so. Okay, Now it's your turn.
Pencils up. Start at the beginning of some new
lines with your pencil tip on the headline now
slant right down to the baseline
and slammed back up to the headline to finish. Try
another, Leave some space and start with your pencil On the
headline slant Right down to the
baseline. Insolence up all the way to the
headline.
You can never have enough practices. So try one more upper case of
E Put your pencil on the headline
slant right to the baseline and
slants up to the headline.
But how did you do? Scribbles
over. Oh, no. You didn't leave space between the letters. It looks like you have
zigzags instead of these
way. By the way, moral of the mouse is looking
for you. Something about money.
Hey, where you going? I better get him.
He needs more practice. And that's what you need to do to
keep practicing your letters. Up, down
and around. See? Next time.