TWO-HANDED EXERCISES
Value of Two-Handed Exercises. Skill, speed, and grace are acquired by the rhythmical two-handed exercises, and for this the blackboard is the most effective place. Each pupil should be provided with two pieces of crayon.
In each of the following examples the starting point is indicated by a A.
If possible two-handed work should be continued until the pupil becomes, in fact, ambidextrous, but each exercise should be about five minutes long. The exercise may be alternated by two-handed pencil work at the desk.
Pupils should be instructed to erase with slow downward strokes. This will prevent the raising of clouds of chalk-dust.
The best movements at first are the quarter circles, reversed; starting at the top in Fig. i.
After continued exercise in the lines at top of Fig. i proceed with the more complex lines below.
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- Advice To Teachers
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