Handwriting Worksheets

Family Names

Many members in our family have names that may be uncommon in the United States. By that we mean names you may not typically find on some sort of tourist souvenir in a gift shop. Some family members have names with unique spelling and some have names with two parts.

For instance, Mary Anne has a name with two parts. Two words distinguished by a space, but one name. All of her siblings have the same situation: Marvin Joi, Mark Paulo, Melanie Vanessa, and Michael John. However, not all of them go by the “First Names” they were given in the Philippines. For most of them, the second half of their Philippine given names were bumped to be their middle names in America. This was also the case for Joe. Joe was given the name Joe Peter as his first name in the Philippines in memory of his grand fathers, Jose Santorum and Pedro Laguerta. Peter became his middle name once he moved to the Philippines.

These stories fueled our idea of gifting these worksheets to our nieces and nephews. Not only could they practice writing their names, but it was a gift customized especially for them.

Handwriting Packets

The first three sheets utilized a tracing technique while the 4th name page encouraged the child to mimic the example rather than continuing to trace the same figures. We also included sheets with numbers.

Sequence of Worksheets:

• Page 1: First Name

• Page 2: Last Name

• Page 3: Combination of First and Last Name

• Page 4: First and Last Name Continued Practice

• Page: 5 Numbers 1 through 5

• Page 6: Numbers 6 through 10