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</v> I'm Ms. Asal, and I'm feeling really excited because guess what we're going to do together, we're going to do some handwriting.

I love sharing handwriting.

I love forming new letters together, making patterns.

It's all so much fun.

So what you need to be ready is to have your eyes ready looking, you need your ears ready to listen out for keywords, and we're gonna be warming up our hands and our wrists soon, so you'll need those ready.

And let's begin.

Let's have a great time.

The outcome for today's lesson is "I can correctly form all 26 letters of the alphabet in lowercase and their capital letters." That's really exciting, bringing together lowercase and the capitals.

Let's get into it.

We have a few keywords in today's lesson.

First of all, we have capital letters.

My turn.

And then your turn.

And we have lowercase letters.

I want you to listen out for those.

I want you to look out for them.

I want you to be thinking about those words.

They are going to be all over our lesson today.

Today's lesson is made up of four different parts.

So in our lesson matching lowercase letters with their capital letters, we'll start by matching and forming the letters A to H.

Next we'll be matching and forming the letters I to N.

We'll move on to matching and forming letters O to T.

And we're gonna finish with matching and forming the letters U to Z.

Let's begin with our first set of letters and some warmups.

Let's have a go at the finger pull warmup first of all.

I'll have a go and then it will be your turn.

So I'm going to take my hand, and with my other hand I'm going to pull first of all my thumb, then I'm going to pull each of my fingers, and I'm gonna pull and I'm gonna squeeze at the same time.

It feels really good.

It feels like a lovely, nice kind of hand massage, really.

So I'm gonna do the other hand, pulling each of my fingers and squeezing as well.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Take whichever hand you want to begin with.

I'm gonna start here actually.

And you can start with your thumb, and you're just gonna pull and squeeze.

And then the next one.

You're gonna do the same thing for each of your fingers.

It feels really great.

Let's have a go on the other hand and we're just going to squeeze and we're gonna pull each of our fingers.

We are getting our hands and our fingers ready and strong for handwriting.

Yes, it feels great.

Next we're going to have a go at the rolling wrists warmup.

For this, I'm gonna take my hand, actually put it in the same position as I started the last one, and I'm going to imagine that my hand is going to be mixing something really, really delicious to eat.

So maybe you like yummy cakes.

You could be mixing some delicious cake mixture.

I really like soups.

I'm gonna pretend I'm mixing my soup in the pan.

So just doing this movement here.

And what we're doing is we're rolling our wrist.

So we're gonna go in one direction and then back in the other direction.

I'm going to do that with this hand now as well.

I am stirring my delicious soup.

What's in a soup? Mm, carrots.

Yummy.

What else is in there? Maybe some potato.

This tastes good.

And I'm going to roll in the other direction.

Okay, now it's your turn.

Choose which hand are you gonna begin with.

Choose, most important decision, what are you going to be mixing.

Is it some yummy cookie mixture? Is it a delicious soup? What are you stirring? Just imagine it and rolling your wrist around like this.

Now let's go in the other direction.

Keep stirring.

Mm, keep smelling that delicious food that you're mixing and stirring.

And let's have a go with the other hand.

One direction, stirring, mixing, smelling the delicious food.

And going around the other way.

We are making our wrists strong for handwriting.

This is going to really, really help us.

Plus we get to imagine that lovely food.

Well done, everybody.

You've done a wonderful, wonderful job.

Capital letters can be formed in a similar or a different way to their matching lowercase letters.

So take a look at these a's and take a look at the x's.

What do you notice? What do you see about them? What's the same? What's different? Pause the video here.

Did you notice those a's are quite different? The capital A, like this.

Straight lines all the way up to the ascender line.

Whereas that lowercase letter a has got curved lines and it's sitting on the x-height line.

Whereas the x's, they're actually formed in the same way.

They both have that same formation.

They're just different heights and different sizes.

The capital x goes up to the ascender line and the lower case x goes to the x-height line.

Capital letters always sit on the baseline and they reach up to the ascender line.

All capital letters are the same size.

Lowercase letters can be different sizes.

So some of them are x-height letters, some of them are ascender letters all the way up to the ascender line, and some of them are descender letters down to the descender line.

Every letter in the alphabet has a lowercase formation and an uppercase formatio, just like you can see here with these b's.

We've got the capital b, we've got the lowercase b.

And the p's, we've got a capital p, we've got a lowercase p.

And the uppercase formation is known as the capital letter.

Should we remind ourselves of that word? Do you wanna have another go at saying it? Ready? Capital letter.

Have a go at matching the lowercase letters with their capital letter.

Pause the video while you have a go.

Yep, there we go.

The b's are.

The two b's are there, the lowercase and the capital.

The a's are matching.

There's that capital a with the straight lines and the lowercase letter a with the curve lines.

There are the two c's, which are actually formed in the same way.

It's the same movement, different sizes.

And there are our two d's.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letters.

Take a look at these letters in front of you.

Which are the matching lowercase and capital letters? Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done.

If you matched the two g's that are over on the left-hand side, the capital g and the lowercase g, one on top of the other, the two e's over on the right-hand side, one on top of the other, and then the f's that are diagonally across from each other and the h's diagonally across from each other.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the lowercase and the capital letters.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Practise forming all of these lowercase and capital letters over the grey examples.

And next, look at your matching letters.

Are they formed in similar or different ways? So how did you get on with that task? Did you notice that in that group of letters only the letter c is formed in a similar way? The lowercase letters a, b, d, e, f, g, and h are formed in a different way to their capital letters.

For the next part of our lesson, we are going to be matching and forming the letters I to N.

What do you notice about all of these letters here on the screen? Hmm.

Pause the video.

Have a think about this.

Tell someone next to you.

They're all the same size.

All of these capital letters are the same size.

They all reach all the way up to the ascender line, reaching up to there, and then they sit on the baseline.

They're all capital letters.

Check for understanding.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letters.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

The i's were just one above the other, and the j's and the k's were sitting diagonally across from each other.

Match these lowercase letters with their capital letters.

Pause the video here.

Well done if you selected those two m's that were one above the other, and then the l's and n's were diagonally across from each other.

Well done.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the lowercase and the capital letters.

First of all, go over the grey examples of the i's, j's, k's, l's, m's, and n's.

And next, look at your matching letters.

Have a look.

Are they formed in similar or different ways, the capitals and the lowercase letters? Pause the video here.

Did you notice something about letter n? The lowercase letter n in this group of letters was formed in a different way to its capital letter, and the lowercase letters i, j, k, l, and m are formed in somewhat similar ways to their capital letters.

Let's move on to matching and forming letters O to T.

What do you notice about these letters, s, t, o, p, r, q? Pause the video here and share with somebody what you notice.

They're all different sizes.

They're all lowercase letters.

So some of these letters are going up above the x-height line.

Some of them are descending down below the baseline.

And some of them are x-height letters.

They're just sitting at the x-height.

Check for understanding.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letter.

Pause the video here.

Did you match together those q's on the end? They were both the q's, even though they look quite different and formed in quite a different way.

And the o's and the p's were sitting diagonally across from each other.

Well done.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letters here.

Pause the video while you decide.

Oh, this is quite a stretch.

Did you match together those two s's that are at a diagonal from each other? And they're formed in quite a similar way.

It's actually the same shape, same shape with two curves.

Did you match together the two r's? They've got quite a different formation.

And did you match together those two t's that are a bit of a way apart from each other? Capital t, two straight lines, and the lowercase t, which has a curve.

For your task, I would like you to practise forming the lowercase and capital letters.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, complete two lines independently on your tram lines.

Then go over these grey examples.

And finally look at your matching letters, the capitals and the lowercase letters, and ask yourself, are they formed in similar or different ways? Pause the video here.

How did you get on with that? Did you notice that the lowercase letters q and r are formed in very different ways to their capital letters, and that lowercase letters, o, p, s, and t are formed in a similar way to their capital letters.

Finally, matching and forming letters U to Z.

Here they are, u, v, w, x, y, z.

What do you notice about these letters? Pause the video here.

Tell someone nearby.

Did you notice they are all the same size.

They are all reaching up to the ascender line and are sitting on their baseline.

They're all capital letters.

Letters v, w, x, y, and z have diagonal lines.

That's the lines that tilt or slant.

Check for understanding.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letter.

Pause the video here while you decide.

Did you match the two w's? They're diagonally across from each other.

They're interesting, aren't they? They've got diagonals in them and they're at a diagonal.

The v's, they've also got diagonals and they're at a diagonal.

And the u's, that don't have diagonals, are quite far apart from each other at a long diagonal line.

Check for understanding.

Match the lowercase letters with their capital letter.

Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done if you matched the two z's that are sitting one on top of the other and the two y's that are a diagonal, and the two x's.

Oh, and that makes an x.

Oh, that's fun! For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the lowercase and the capital letters.

First of all, go over the grey examples of each letter and then look at your matching letters.

Are they formed in similar or different ways? Pause the video here.

So did you notice that all of these capital letters are formed in a similar way to their matching lowercase letters? In our lesson, matching lowercase letters with their capital letters, we have covered the following.

Capital letters are the uppercase formation of a letter.

Every lowercase letter has a matching capital letter.

Some lowercase letters are formed in similar ways to their capital letter and look similar.

And some lowercase letters are formed in a different way to their capital letters and look different.

Well done for joining in with this lesson and exploring lowercase letters and their capital letters and matching them together.

It's been a lot of fun to be with you.

See you next time.

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