Hello everyone.

This is Miss Afzal here again to share some more handwriting with you.

I'm so excited to be here.

I hope you're feeling excited too.

We're going to, as always, do our best.

We are as always going to have lots of fun.

Are you ready to begin? Let's get started.

The outcome for today's lesson is, I can write common exception words using cursive handwriting.

We have got some key words in our lesson today.

Let's go through them.

My turn, your turn.

Common exception word.

Lead in.

Lead out.

Join.

Letter string.

Fantastic, I heard those words loud and clear.

Let's make sure we are on a lookout for them.

Let's listen for them, let's think carefully about them.

They are gonna come up in our lesson.

So what's happening in our lesson today? Reviewing further common exception words using lead-ins.

Well, first of all, we're going to look at the common exception words we and me and next we'll look at the common exception words who and said.

Before starting to write, it's important to warm up your hand and your wrist muscles.

Your hands and wrist get stronger when you exercise them.

So warming up your hands before writing will help to improve your handwriting.

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 are 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 wrist so 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.

Common exception words do not follow the regular spelling or phonics rules.

They often appear frequently in written texts and require memorization.

So we've gotta have our memories working hard for these words.

It's good to practise these words in cursive handwriting as they will appear a lot in your writing.

Learning and practising the letter joins, in these words, will improve your cursive handwriting skills, allowing for a smooth flow of handwriting.

Check for understanding.

Which of these do you think are common exception words? Cat, are, me, big? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected are.

Well done if you selected me.

Are and me are common exception words.

They do not follow the usual spelling or phonic rules.

Can you remember the four joins? Here they are.

The first, second, third and fourth join.

Take a look at the first join, pause the video while you tell someone nearby where the first join goes from and to.

Well done if you said that the first join goes from the baseline, that's the green line, up to the X-height line, the dotted line.

Now onto the second join.

Where does the second join go from and to? Pause the video and tell someone nearby.

Well done if you said that the second join is from the baseline all the way up towards the ascender line.

And now the third join.

Pause the video while tell someone nearby where does the third join go from and where does it go to? The third join is from the X-height line across to the X-height line.

And finally the fourth join.

Where is it from, where is it to? Pause the video, tell someone nearby.

The fourth join goes from the X-height line up towards the ascender line.

Fantastic, well done for remembering the four joins.

Let's look closely at some common exception words in cursive.

We've got these two words, we and me.

Take a look at them, what do you notice? What do you see? And remember, common exception words do not follow regular spelling or phonics patterns, so that's why it's helpful for us to memorise them.

So take a look at these words and tell someone nearby everything you can notice and see about them.

All right, did you spot that the we has a lead in coming into it, so does the me, a lead in.

And both of the Es on each of these words have a lead out.

So remember, a lead in is a line or a stroke that takes us into the letter and a lead out is a line or a stroke that smoothly leads us ou of the letter and into whatever letter is coming next.

So here is our common exception word we.

The letter W has a lead in.

The letter E has a lead out.

The letter W connects to the E using the third join, which is from the X-height line to the X-height line.

Here's the me.

The word me is a common exception word.

The letter M has a lead in, the letter E has a lead out.

The letter M connects to the E using the first join.

It's time to have some fun.

I'm going to form the common exception words we and me in the air, and then it will be your turn.

Here we go with we.

Ready, line, go, lead in, form my W, join to the E, finish with the lead out at the baseline.

And now it's your turn, are you ready? Line, go, lead in to the W, form the W, join to the E.

Finish with the lead out at the baseline.

Great job.

Now I'm informed the word me, common exception word me.

Lead in, form my M.

Join to the E, finish with the lead out.

It's your turn.

Ready, line, go, lead in, M, join to the E, finish with a lead out.

Great job, everyone.

And remember adequate spacing between letters when joining.

Yeah, I think we did that.

I'm going show you how to form the common exception words we and me.

I'm sitting comfortably and my pen is in the tripod grip, I'm gonna say to myself, ready, line, go.

And I will put my pen at the starting position just over the baseline and begin with my lead in to the W.

I'm going to form my W and then I'm gonna join to the E and finish with the lead out.

Ready, line, go.

Starting just above the baseline, my lead in to the M.

Form my letter M.

Join to the letter E.

Finish with the lead out at the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join sequence.

Which of these we's is formed correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected the one in the middle.

This has got the lead in to the W, the W and E are joined correctly and then it has the lead out from the E at the baseline.

Select the correct join sequence for the word me in cursive handwriting.

Pause the video while you decide which is formed correctly.

Well done if you selected the first me.

This has got a lead in at the baseline to the M, the M and the E are joined beautifully and the E has a lead out at the baseline.

And now it's time for your first task.

I would like you to practise forming the common exception words we and me.

First of all, we're gonna go over the grey examples for we.

Try using the starting dot and then complete two line independently on your tramlines.

Next, I'd like you to practise forming the common exception word me.

Go over the grey examples, try using the starting dot and finally, complete two lines independently with focus and flow on your tramlines.

Pause the video here while you have a go at this task and I'll see you when you finish.

How did you get on forming the common exception words we and me? Did you remember your lead in the baseline? Did you use the correct join? And did you keep your pencil on the page when joining the letters? I really hope so.

Circle your best and celebrate.

Yay.

And now it's time for us to look at the common exception words who and said.

Here they are, here's the who, here's the said.

Take a look at them closely, what do you notice, what do you see? Tell someone nearby.

And pause the video here.

All right, did you spot the lead in to the W? The H has an ascender and O had a lead out.

In the word said, did you spot the lead in to the S? The D has an ascender and there's a lead out to the D and a dot above the I.

Well spotted if you noticed all of these things.

The word who is a common exception word.

The letter W has a lead in.

The letter O has a lead out.

The letter W connects to the H using the fourth join.

The letter H connects to the O using the first join.

And here's the said.

The word said is a common exception word.

The letter S has a lead in.

The letter D has a lead out.

All of the connections in this word use the first join.

And the dot for the letter I is only added once the letter string is complete.

All right, let's have a go at forming these common exception words in the air.

I'm going to go first and I'm going to form the word who.

Ready, line, go.

Lead in to my W.

Join to the H.

Join to the O.

Finish with the lead out at the X-height line.

It's your turn.

Lead in to the W.

Join to the H.

Join to the O.

Lead out at the X-height line.

I'm going to form the word said.

Ready, line, go.

There's my S, join to the A, join to the I, join to the D, lead out at the baseline and then dot the I.

Your turn now and remember, you only lift your pencil once the letter string is complete to dot the I.

Let's do it, ready, line, go.

S, A, I, D.

Lead out at the baseline, lift the pencil and dot the I.

Fantastic, should we have one more go? Ready, line, go.

Lead in to the S, join to the A, join to the I, join to the D and lead out at the baseline, pencil off, dot the I.

Oh yes, fantastic job, everyone.

I'm going to show you how to form the common exception words who and said.

I'm sitting comfortably, I'm holding my pen in the tripod grip.

I'm gonna begin at the baseline with my lead in to the W.

Then form my W.

And then join to the H.

Form my H, join to the O.

Finish with the lead out at the X-height line.

And now I'll show you how to form the word said.

I am starting at the baseline.

Ready, line, go, there's my lead in to the S.

Joining to the A.

Joining to the I.

Joining to the D.

First join all the way.

Lead out at the baseline and then I take my pen off and go back to dot the I.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join sequence.

Which who has been formed correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected the first who.

This has a lead in to the W, the joins are correct from the W to the H and the H to the O and we have a nice lead out at the X-height line for the O.

Select the correct join sequence for the word said.

Pause the video while you decide which one it is.

Well done if you selected the said in the middle.

This has got the lead in to the S, it's got all of the joins formed correctly and the lead out at the baseline for the D and the letters are not squished together too much.

We've got a nice amount of spacing between them.

It's time for your next task.

I'd like you to practise forming the common exception word who.

First we'll go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot and finally, complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

After that, I'd like you to practise forming the common exception word said.

First, we'll go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot and finally, complete two lines independently with focus, with flow on your tramlines.

Pause the video here and I'll see you when you're finished.

Okay, it's great to be back with you.

How did you get on with that task with forming the common exceptions words who and said? Did you remember to start on the baseline with a lead in? Did you use the correct join to connect the letters? And did you remember to add the dot for the letter I at the end of said? I hope so, circle your best and celebrate.

In our lesson reviewing further common exception words using lead ins, we've covered the following.

Common exception words do not follow regular spelling or phonics rules.

Common exceptions words appear frequently in written text.

Letters in the common exception words will be joined using a range of joins depending on the letters in the word.

The first letter always has a lead in.

The last letter always has a lead out.

There is an appropriate space between the letters joined in cursive.

You don't lift your pencil until the letter string is complete.

Well done, everyone, for joining in with this lesson, joining in with all of the joins, the lead ins, the lead outs, these very special common exception words that we'll hear so frequently in our writing that it's worth us practising them.

It was great to be with you and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.

Bye for now.