Hello, everyone.

My name is Ms. Afzal, and I'm really thrilled to be here with you because we are going to be practising one of my very favourite things, and that is handwriting.

So we are gonna get into it.

We're gonna have a go at some practising , some letters and some patterns.

We're gonna do some warmups.

It's gonna be a great time we have, and I hope you're ready, I hope you're excited too.

Let's get started.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can correctly form the third join.

Here are our keywords.

Let's go through them one at a time.

My turn, your turn.

Join, lead out, starting point, dips below, x-height line.

Fantastic, thanks for joining in with those.

It's great to hear you.

Let's make sure we look out for those words.

Let's listen out for them.

Let's think about them and let's be curious about them.

So what's involved in today's lesson? The third join, oo, og, wa and wo with no lead in.

Well, there's three parts to our lesson.

We'll begin with handwriting, warmups.

Then we'll look at the third, join oo and og, and we'll finish with the third join wa and wo.

First, warmups.

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

Our hands and wrist get stronger when we exercise them.

Warming up your hands before writing will help to improve your handwriting.

Practising writing patterns helps us to prepare for writing and joining letters.

Look at these great patterns on the screen.

Let's have a go at making a handwriting pattern in the air.

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

I'm going to start all the way up here and I'm gonna make a diagonal line down, diagonal up, diagonal down, diagonal up, diagonal down, diagonal up.

I'm gonna go backwards because it just feels so good.

I wanna keep going and now it's your turn.

Are you ready? Starting up high, this we can diagonal down, diagonal up, diagonal down, diagonal up, diagonal down, diagonal up and down, let's go backwards because this is a great feeling and looking pattern.

Wonderful, well done, everyone.

For your task, I'd like you to copy and continue these patterns using your tripod grip.

Remember, don't lift your pencil when forming the pattern.

Focus on keeping the movement smooth and flowing.

Pause the video while you have a go at these patterns and I'll see you when you're finished.

It's good to be back with you, how did you get on? Did you use your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil on the page? Was your movement smooth and flowing? I hope so.

And now, it's time for us to us to look at the third join, oo and og.

Print and cursive are the most common forms of handwriting.

Print is when each letter is formed separately.

So we can see the word cat on our screen there.

Each letter is separate.

They are not joined together, they are totally separate, that is print handwriting.

Cursive handwriting, which is also known as joined-up handwriting is quite different because here, we join the letters together in a flowing manner.

So as you can see in the word cat there, the letters are all joined together.

And here's join and join, this is one of our keywords, so if you join something, it means you link it together, you connect it together.

Here are some joins on our screen.

Cursive handwriting involves joining letters together without lifting your pencil.

How the letters are connected depends upon which letter is joining to which letter.

Cursive letter joins refers to how letters connect together and learning letter joins will improve your cursive handwriting skills, allowing for a smooth flow of handwriting.

It's going to look good, it's going to feel good, it's really worth putting in some time and effort to get into our cursive handwriting.

The first join we learned is shown below.

Take a look at each joins.

Can you remember how we make this first join? What is it that all of these joins have in common? Izza is here to remind us the first join is from the baseline to the x-height line, like so.

Now, the x-height line is one of our keywords.

The x-height line is the dotted line that we can see there.

And many letters such as the a, c, n, i and e, those are x-height letters, and they sit between the baseline and the x-height line.

The second join we learn is shown below.

Take a look at these joins.

Can you notice how it is that these letters are joining to each other? Here's June to remind us, the second join is from the baseline to above the x-height line towards the ascender line.

Thank you, June.

There we are, there's the arrow to show us our second join.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct second join.

Which of these ch is joined correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done, if you selected the one above the C.

This join is going from the baseline all the way up towards the ascender line.

Okay, let's take a close look at some examples of our third join.

What do you see, what do you notice about these letters in these joins? Pause a video and tell someone nearby.

Okay, did you notice that the o, the second o, the oo, has a lead out? Did you notice that the g has a lead out? Oh, also has that lovely loop as part of the lead out.

How about the join? Did you notice that the join dips below the x-height line? This is number one of our keywords, dips below.

So dips below means it's going just under.

To dip means just to go down a little bit.

So it's going just down under the x-height line.

And also lead out is one of our keywords.

So a lead out is a line that takes us out of the letter.

So we don't finish the letter at the end point of the letter, we add on this lead out, which takes us outta the letter and indeed it will take us into the next letter, it will help us join to the next letter.

And we can see that the two letters are joined together, they're joined and connected.

What do you notice about how these letters are joined? The last letter has a lead out, letter o has a starting point on the x-height line.

The third join starts at the x-height line, and it dips below the x-height line and comes back up to join the next letter.

You don't lift your pencil when forming the join.

And the gap between the letters is big enough that the letters are not touching.

Letter g has a lead out loop.

Here's Alex, what are you saying, Alex? The third join is from the x-height line to the x-height line.

Oh, thank you Alex.

And there we are, you can see that join now.

Okay, it is time for us to form these joins in the air.

I'm going to go first and then it will be your turn.

I'm gonna begin with the oo, I'm going to start with the first o at the x-height line.

And I'm gonna go anticlockwise, oh, this is nice, lovely letter form, it's a nice big circle.

And then I'm going to join, I'm gonna keep going from my lead out.

I'm gonna dip below the x-height line and come back up, leaving enough room for my next letter, but not too much.

And then I'm gonna form my second letter o, and I'll finish with a lead out at the x-height line.

Lemme show you one more time.

So start at the x-height line for my first letter o.

And then to join, I'm gonna keep going from my lead out at the x-height line, dip below the exit line, come back up, leave enough room, but not too much for my next letter, form the second o.

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

It's your turn, let's do this.

Let's begin at the x-height line is anticlockwise direction, letter o.

And here we go, to join, go from that lead out, dip below the x-height line, back up, leave enough room, but not too much, form your second o, lead out.

One more, first o, here's our join.

Dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Form your second o and lead out.

Ooh, they're looking good.

Now it's time for og, I will go first.

I'm going to begin the o the same way anticlockwise form a letter o.

And then to join, I'm dipping below the x-height line, coming back up, living in enough room, but not too much for my g, form my letter g, and I'm gonna go down to the ascender line and finish with a lead out loop, plus looking and feeling good.

All right, it's your turn to join in the fun, begin at the x-height line, that's your starting point.

Let's make the letter o.

And here we're going to join, we'll go from that lead out.

We'll dip below the x-height line, come back up, leave enough room, but not too much with the letter g.

Here we go, here's the g down to the ascender line, lead out loop.

Let's do one more.

Ready line, go, form the o.

Here's our join, dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much.

Form the letter g, lead out loop.

Oh yes, looking great, og.

I'm gonna show you how to form the third join, oo.

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

I'll say to myself, ready, line, go.

And I'll begin at the x-height line to form the first letter o in an anticlockwise direction.

And then to join, I'm going to keep my pen on the lead out.

Dip down below the x-height line, back up again, leaving enough room, but not too much for the next letter o, form that letter o and finish with a lead out at the x-height line.

Let's try that again.

First o, anticlockwise.

And then to join, I'm gonna dip down below the x-height line, come back up.

I've left enough room, but not too much for the next letter.

Finish with the lead out at the x-height line and one more.

First o, here's my join.

Dipping down below the x-height line and coming back up.

Second o, lead out.

I'm gonna show you how to form the third join, og.

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

I'll say to myself, ready, line, go.

Put my pen at the x-height line, form that first o.

And to join, I'm gonna carry on from that lead in, that lead out and I'll dip down below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much with letter g.

Form my letter g and I'll finish with a lead out loop.

Let's try that again.

Start with the x-height line, go anticlockwise to form the letter o.

And then here's my join, I'm dipping below the x-height line, coming back up, leaving just enough room, but not too much for the g, finish with a lead out loop.

Let's try one more.

Here's the o, here's the join and here's the letter g with the lead out loop.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join.

Which of these oo is joined correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done, if you selected the first one.

This oo has got the join coming from the x-height line.

It's dipping below the x-height line and then coming back up to the x-height line.

Select the correct join between the o and the g.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done, if you selected the og above the C, that is the og for us.

The join is going from the x-height line, dipping just below the x-height line and coming back up and the g has that lovely lead out loop.

For your task, I'd like you to practise the third join, oo.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

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

After that, I'd like you to practise the third join, og.

Go over the grey examples, try using the starting dot.

And finally, complete two lines independently with focus, with flow on your tramlines.

Pause the video here when you get on with your task.

And I'll see you when you're finished.

It's good to be back together.

I have a few questions for you.

Did you start on the x-height line? Did you join from the x-height line to the x-height line? Did you dip below the x-height line when joining? Circle your best join and celebrate.

And now it's time to look at a third join, wa and wo.

And here they are.

Here's the wa, here's the wo, let's take a close look at them.

What do you notice? What do you see? Tell someone nearby.

Pause the video here.

All right, did you notice the a has a lead out at the baseline? The o has a lead out at the x-height line.

Did you notice the join dipping below the x-height line, it's coming back up again? These two letters are joined together.

It's the third join.

So what do you notice about how these letters are joined? Letter w has a starting point on the x-height line.

Starting point means where the letter begin, where it starts from the exact place where we start forming that letter.

The join starts at the x-height line and it dips below the x-height line and back up to join the next letter.

Letter a has a lead out on the baseline, letter o has lead out at the x-height line.

The gap between letters is big enough that letters are not touching.

Here's Alex, the third join is from the x-height line to the x-height line.

Thank you, Alex, there it is, there's our join.

Let's have a go at forming these joins in the air.

I'll go first of all, and then it's your turn.

So I'm move again with wa, I'm gonna keep my movement smooth and flowing.

My starting point is at the x-height line.

I'm gonna form my w and then to join, I'll keep going from the lead out, dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room for the a, but not too much form my letter a, finish with the lead out at the baseline.

It's your turn, ready.

At the starting point is at the x-height line, let's form our w.

To join, we'll keep going from the lead out, dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much form your a, lead out.

Let's try one more.

Here's our w, here's our join.

Dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave just enough room for the a and lead out.

Oh, yes, that's looking very nice.

Let's try wo now, I'll go first.

I'm starting at the x-height line.

I'm gonna form my letter to w.

To join, I'll keep going from that lead out, dip below, we'll come back up to the x-height line, form a letter o, anti-clockwise.

And my lead out is at the x-height line this time.

All right, your turn, wo.

Starting point is the x-height line, let's form our w.

And here's our join from the x-height line, dip below, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much, form your o, lead out at the x-height line.

Let's try one more, ready? W and here comes our join, dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much for the o, and lead out in the x-height line.

Oh, yes, I like all of those.

I'm going to show you how to form the third join, wa.

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

I'm gonna start at the x-height line and form my letter w.

And then to join, I'll go from that lead out, dip down below the x-height line, come back up.

Leave enough room, but not too much for the letter a.

Form an a and finish with a lead out at the baseline.

Let's try that again.

W and to join, I dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leaving just enough room for the a, but not too big a gap and a lead out at the baseline.

One more.

W, there's that join, dipping below the x-height line and back up.

Here's the a and the lead out.

I'm going to show you how to form the third join, wo.

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

I'll say ready, line, go and put my pen at the x-height line to begin with the w.

Then to join, I'm gonna go from that lead out, dip below the x-height line, come back up.

Leaving enough room, but not too much for the o.

And I'll finish with the lead out at the x-height line.

Let's try that again.

W, and here's my join dipping below the x-height line, coming back up, form the letter o and lead out at the x-height line.

One more.

W, here's my join dipping below the x-height line, back up.

Form the letter o, lead out at the x-height line.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join between the w and a.

Pause the video while you decide on which of these three is joined correctly.

Well done, if you selected the first one, this wa has got the join going from the x-height line, dipping below, coming back up and leaving just enough room for the a.

Select the correct join between the w and the o.

Which of these three is formed correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done, if you selected the one in the middle, this has got the join going from the end of the w, it's dipping below the x-height line, coming back up.

And the o has the lead out at the x-height line.

For your task, I would like you to practise the third join, wa.

First of all, 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 to practise the third joint, wo from the grey examples, try using the starting dot, and finally, complete two lines independently with focus, with flow, with enthusiasm on your tramlines.

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

It's good to be back with you.

How did you get on, I wonder? Did you use the correct starting point? Did you join from the x-height line to the x-height line? Did you dip below the x-height line when joining? Circle your best join and celebrate.

Oh, yes, you deserve a celebration.

In our lesson, the third join oo, og, wa, and wo with no lead in, we have covered the following.

Cursive letter joins refer to how the letters connect together.

The first letters all have a starting point on the x-height line.

The third join starts at the x-height line and dips below the x-height line and back up to join the next letter.

You do not lift your pencil when forming the join.

When using the third join, you leave enough space to ensure the letters are not touching without leaving a big gap.

Well done everyone for joining in with this lesson.

I really enjoyed seeing your joins and knowing that you're doing such a great job here today.

And I'm looking forward to seeing you at the next lesson.

Bye for now.