Hello, everyone.

This is Ms. Azal 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 of today's lesson is I conform the capital letters C, G, O and Q, and this comes from the unit of work, capital letters.

We have got a number of keywords that I would like you to look out for.

I would like you to listen out for these words.

Let's go through them one at a time.

My turn.

Your turn.

Capital letter, cascender line, pronoun, proper noun, anticlockwise.

So these are our very special words for today's lesson, and I hope you'll be making sure you are keeping your eyes peeled and making sure you're listening out for all of these words.

Let's get started with our lesson.

So in today's lesson, we'll be covering four things.

We are going to be exploring what are capital letters.

Next, we'll be forming the capital letter C, then the capital letter G.

And finally, we'll be forming the capital letters O and Q.

Let's begin with our exploration of capital letters.

Well, have a look at these two letters that have appeared on the screen.

What do you notice about these letters? Pause the video here and tell somebody nearby everything you notice about these two letters.

What's the same and what's different? Did you notice they are both the letter C? But one of them is bigger.

We've got a big C and then we've got a little c.

So one is the capital letter C, and the other one is the lowercase letter c.

So every letter in the alphabet, every one of our 26 letters of the alphabet can be formed in two ways.

There is the capital letter formation, which is bigger, and then there's the lowercase formation, which is smaller.

A capital letter is the uppercase formation of a letter and the two formations can look the same or different.

So take a look at these two Os.

So they're pretty similar, just mainly the size is different.

The capital letter is bigger and the lowercase formation is smaller.

But if we look at these two G's, they do look quite different.

They're formed in quite a different way.

Check for understanding.

Select the capital letters.

Pause the video here.

Did you select the capital letter C, which is right in the middle and the capital letter O, which is to the right of the screen? These are both capital letters or uppercase letters.

And we can see that they're bigger than the lowercase formation of the letter C.

A capital letter is the uppercase formation of a letter.

Proper nouns, name specific people, places or things.

So people, places, or things that have a specific name like Andeep or Edinburgh Castle or Oxford Street.

Or think about yourself and your name.

Remember whenever you write your name, you always start with a capital letter.

So all of these proper nouns need capital letters, but common nouns like flower don't need capital letters.

The first word in a sentence always needs a capital letter.

We went to the shop.

She was happy with her dog.

And also, the pronoun I is always a capital letter anywhere within a sentence.

So I love apples.

Hmm, yummy.

Andy and I went to the farm.

So whether the I is at the beginning of the sentence or if it's in the middle of a sentence, if it's the pronoun I, it's always going to have a capital letter.

Check for understanding.

A capital letter should be used at the beginning of a sentence when writing a proper noun, when writing the pronoun I, when writing a common noun like flower.

Pause the video here.

Well done if you tick those first three statements.

We know that a capital letter should be used at the beginning of a sentence When writing a proper noun, the name of a specific person, place, or thing, or when writing the pronoun I.

For your task, I would like you to complete these writing patterns, but make them bigger in preparation for forming capital letters.

So make some patterns looping up and down.

So make some patterns that are going up and down, some zigzag patterns and some loops.

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

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with making these patterns with completing these patterns in a much bigger way so that you'll be ready for writing capital letters? Did you make the patterns really nice and big? Did you use your tripod grip? Did you have a lot of fun? I hope so.

Next, we'll move on to forming the capital letter C.

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

Your hands and wrists get stronger when we exercise them.

So warming up your hands before writing will help to improve your handwriting and you can do exercises to warm up your hands or practise handwriting patterns.

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

I'll have a go and then it will be your 10.

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 that 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 be 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 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 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.

I'm going to have a go at making this writing pattern in the air with my finger.

Let me show you.

I'm gonna go like this.

I'm gonna start down here at the bottom and I'm gonna go up.

I'm gonna look, oh, lovely loop.

I'm gonna go down.

I'm gonna loop up back down, looping up and down, up around and down.

Oh, that felt good.

And now it's your turn.

Can you join me to make this pattern in the air with your finger? Are you ready? Start down here at the bottom, let's go.

So we're gonna go up, make a lovely loop and come down.

Up, lovely loop, and down, up, loop, and down.

Let's do one more up loop and down.

How lovely.

Well done, everyone.

Aha, look what appeared on the screen.

Can you see these two letter Cs? Take a close look at them.

What do you notice about these two letter Cs? Turn to someone nearby and tell them everything you notice.

Pause the video here.

Did you notice that these letter Cs have a similar formation? They're both formed in quite a similar way, they look quite similar.

However, there are some differences.

The capital letter C starts around the ascender line.

That's where it goes up as high as the ascender line, whereas the lowercase letter c starts around the x-height line.

That's how high it goes.

Both of these letters are sitting on the baseline.

Let's find out a little more about forming the capital letter C.

So the capital letter C and the lowercase letter C are formed in a similar way, but they're different sizes.

One of them, the capital letter is much bigger and a lowercase letter is smaller.

The capital letter C starts just below the ascender line and the capital letter C sits on the baseline.

It's formed by curling around in an anticlockwise direction.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter C in the air using my finger.

Then it'll be your turn.

And then afterwards, I'll have a go forming in the capital letter C with my fist and then it'll be your turn.

So I'm going to start up here just below the ascender line, and then I'm going to go round in an anticlockwise direction.

So that's not the way a clock goes, it's the other way.

So I'm going in an anticlockwise direction and I'm coming all the way down to the baseline and I finish just above the baseline.

Let me show you again.

So I'll start just below the ascender line and I'm going anticlockwise, making a lovely curve down to the baseline and finish just above.

All right, it's your 10.

Get your finger ready just under the ascender line, let's go.

anticlockwise, lovely curve, down to the baseline and we'll finish just above the baseline.

Should we try one more? And let's go anticlockwise all the way around down to the baseline and we'll finish just above the baseline.

Lovely, lovely letter Cs.

All right, now we're going to try using our fists.

I'll go first.

Start just underneath the ascender line and I'm going around in an anticlockwise direction, curving around to the baseline and I finish just above the baseline.

And now it's your turn.

Starting just underneath the ascend line, let's go around in an anticlockwise direction, curving around to the baseline and we'll finish just above the baseline.

Let's try one more from underneath the ascender line, just under, let's go round anticlockwise curling around down to the baseline and we'll finish just above the baseline.

Fantastic.

<v ->I'm going to model how to form the lowercase letter c.

</v> I'm sitting comfortably and I'm holding my pens in my tripod grip.

I'm going to begin just below the ascender line and I'm going to go around in an anticlockwise direction all the way down to the baseline and I'm gonna finish just above the baseline.

Let me show you that again.

I'm going to start just below the ascender line and I'm going to go around in an anticlockwise direction all the way down to the baseline and then I'll finish just above the baseline.

One more.

Start just below the ascender line around in an anticlockwise direction and then I'll finish just above the baseline Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the capital letter C.

Is it the C you can see above A, B, or C? Pause the video here.

Well done.

It was the C above the C is the correct formation of the capital letter C.

It's starting just below the ascend line and it's going anticlockwise and finishing just above the baseline.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the capital letter C.

First of all, go over the grey examples, start just below the ascender line, go in anticlockwise direction, curling around, and then finishing just above the base line.

Second, try using the starting dot to help you.

And finally, complete two lines of the capital letter C independently on your tramlines.

And super finally, make sure you have a great time and enjoy, everyone.

Pause the video here.

So how did you get on practising forming the capital letter C? Did you start just below the ascender line? Did you go round in an anticlockwise direction and finish just above the baseline? Did you have fun? Circle your best capital letter C and celebrate, you deserve it.

For the next part of our lesson, we'll be forming the capital letter G.

Are you ready? Let's go for it.

Take a close look.

What do you notice about these two letter Gs that have appeared on the screen? What can you see? What do you notice? Pause the video here and tell somebody nearby everything you can see.

Did you notice that the capital letter G is starting just below the ascender line? And it's curling around and then it finishes with a cross on the x-height line? Did you notice that the lowercase letter g? It's starting on the x-height line and that it has a descender that's going down below the baseline, down to the descender line.

They have a different formation that are not similar, they don't have the similar formation.

What else can we find out about forming the capital letter G? Well, the capital letter G and the lowercase letter g are formed in different ways.

The capital letter G starts just below the ascender line and the capital letter G sits comfortably on the baseline.

It's formed by curling around in an anticlockwise direction.

So similar to the capital letter C.

It finishes with a cross on the x-height line.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter G in the air, first of all using my finger and then it will be your turn.

So I'm going to start just below the ascender line and I'm gonna go round in an anticlockwise direction.

So that's not the way the clock goes around.

It's anticlockwise, the other way.

Start just below the ascender line.

I'm going around in an anticlockwise direction all the way down to the baseline.

Then I'm gonna curl up and I am going to take my pencil off the page and I'm gonna make a cross across the x-height line.

That's how I finish my capital G.

Let me show you that again.

I start just below the ascend line and I go round in an anticlockwise direction down to the baseline, up to curl up to the x-height line pencil off.

And I'm gonna cross that G at the x-height line.

Are you ready for your turn? Get your finger in position and just below the ascender line.

Let's go in an anticlockwise direction and coming down to the baseline, curling up to the x-height line, pencil off and make a cross at the ex-height line.

Let's do one more.

From the ascender line.

Let's go backwards, anticlockwise all the way down to the baseline, up to the x-height line pencil off.

Cross that capital G at the x-height line.

Well done.

Let's try the same thing.

This is gonna be interesting.

We're gonna try it with our elbow.

So we need to be super flexible here.

This is gonna be a nice good stretch for our arm and for our elbow.

So I'm gonna start just below the ascender line and I'm gonna go anticlockwise down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, elbow off and cross that capital G.

And now it's your turn.

Get your elbow in position just below the x-height line.

Let's go around anticlockwise down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, elbow off, cross that capital G.

Fantastic job, everyone.

I'm going to show you how to form the capital letter G.

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

I'm going to start just below the x, the ascender line and I'm going to go round in an anticlockwise direction all the way down to the baseline and I'm gonna curl up to the x-height line.

I'll take my pen off the page and then draw across at the x-height line.

Let me show you again.

I'll start just below the ascender line and I'm gonna go round in an anticlockwise direction down to the baseline.

Curl up to the x-height line, pen off, and cross at the x-height line.

One more.

From the ascender line, anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Up, curl up to the x-height line, pen off, and across.

Check for understanding which is the correct formation of the capital letter G.

Pause the video here.

Well done if you selected the first capital letter G.

This one is correct because it's starting just below the ascender line.

It's going round in an anticlockwise direction down to the baseline, up to the x-height line.

And then there's that lovely cross across the x-height line.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the capital letter G.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Start just below the ascender line going anticlockwise, curling around down to the baseline.

Curl up to the x-height line and then lift your pencil and make a cross at the x-height line.

Next, try using the starting dot to begin.

And finally, complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy forming every one of your capital letter Gs.

Pause the video here.

How did it go? How did you get on reforming the capital letter G? Did you start just below the ascender line? Did you go round in an anticlockwise direction? Did you add a cross on the x-height line? Did you have fun? And please, circle your best one and celebrate.

You've done such a great job today.

Well done, everybody.

For the next part of our lesson, we'll be forming the capital letters O and Q.

Let's go.

Here we are, two Os on the screen.

Look at them closely.

What do you notice? What can you see? Pause the video here as you tell someone nearby everything you notice about these letter Os.

Did you notice that the capital letter O, which is on the left, the larger letter O is starting around the ascender line? That's as high up as it goes.

And the lowercase letter though O on the right is starting at the x-height line.

That's how high it goes.

Both of them are sitting on the baseline.

And they both have a similar formation.

Let's find out more about this formation of the letter O, capital letter O.

So the capital letter O and the lowercase letter o are formed in similar ways but different sizes.

The capital letter O starts on the ascender line, the capital letter O sits on the baseline.

It's formed by curling around in an anticlockwise direction.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter O in the air with my finger and then it will be your turn.

I'm gonna start all the way up here at the ascender line and I'm gonna go round in an anticlockwise direction.

So it's not the way a clock goes around.

It's anticlockwise the other way.

Start at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go anticlockwise all the way down to the baseline and then I'm gonna keep going.

I'm curling up now and I'm gonna finish up at the ascender line.

Closing the circle there.

Let me try that again.

Start at the ascender line.

I'm going anticlockwise all the way down to the baseline.

Keep curling around and I'll close the circle at the ascend line.

It's your turn.

Are you ready to make a lovely letter? Capital letter O.

Start up here at the ascender line and clockwise down to the baseline.

Keep curling around.

Close that circle at the ascender line.

Let's try one more, ready? Ascender line, anticlockwise to the baseline.

Keep going, keep going.

Close the circle.

Oh, it feels so good.

I think we better do one more.

Ready? Ascender line.

Curling around to the baseline and closing the circle back at the ascend line.

Fantastic job, everyone.

Guess what? We're gonna have a go now using our nose.

Our noses are very helpful when it comes to forming capital letter O.

Did you know that? Let's try.

I'm gonna go first.

I'm gonna start here.

This is my ascender line.

I'm going around anticlockwise down to the baseline and I'm closing the circle at the ascender line.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Get your nose and position on the ascender line.

Let's go, curling around, anticlockwise down to the baseline and we're gonna finish closing circle at the ascender line.

Look at all those beautiful Os made with your lovely noses.

Well done, everybody.

I'm going to show you how to form the capital letter O.

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

I'm going to start at the ascender line and I'm gonna go anticlockwise all the way down to the baseline and I'm gonna keep curling around and I'm gonna go back up to where I started and close this circle at the ascender line.

Let me show you again.

Start at the ascend line.

Go on anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Keep curling around.

And I'm gonna go back up to the ascender line.

One more time.

Start at the ascender line, anticlockwise, down to the baseline.

Keep going, curling around.

And I'm gonna close the circle where I started.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the capital letter O? Take a look at these three Os and choose your the correct formation.

Pause the video here Well done if you selected the capital letter O above the C.

This one is starting at ascender line, it's going anticlockwise and coming all the way down to the baseline and enclosing the circle back up at the ascender line.

Can you see that two letter Qs have appeared on the screen? Take a look at them very closely.

What do you notice? What can you see? Turn to the person next to you and tell them everything you can see.

Pause the video here.

Did you notice that the capital letter Q is starting on the ascender line all the way up at that top line? And that it has a diagonal line that comes out from the middle of the queue and goes down below the baseline? Did you notice that the lowercase letter queue starts on the x-height line and that it has a descender going down below the baseline, down to the descender line? They have a different formation, they're formed in different ways.

Let's find out more about forming the capital letter Q.

The capital letter Q and the lowercase letter Q are formed in different ways.

The capital letter Q starts on the ascender line and the capital letter Q sits on the baseline.

It's formed in a similar way to the letter O.

So it starts in that same way, going anticlockwise down to the baseline and joining up at the ascender line.

But then, here's the difference.

It has a diagonal line from the middle that comes out to just below the baseline.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter Q in the air with my finger and then it'll be your turn and then we can try it using our fists.

So first of all, I'm gonna begin all the way up here at the ascender line and I'm going to go around in an anticlockwise direction.

So it's not the way a clock goes around.

It's anticlockwise the other way.

I'm gonna go anticlockwise down to the baseline.

I'm gonna keep curling up and closing that circle at the ascender line.

I take my pencil off and then just around in the middle, somewhere around near the middle of the Q, I'm going to make a diagonal line coming out to just below the baseline.

Let me show you that again.

From the ascender line, I'm going anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Keep going, close the circle at the ascender line, pencil off.

And then in the middle of the Q in the middle of the Q, I'm gonna make a diagonal line going down to just below the baseline.

Are you ready for your turn? Get your finger in position at the ascender line.

Let's go, anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Keep going.

Close the circle, finger off.

Go into the middle of the queue and make a nice little diagonal line to just below the baseline.

Let's do one more.

Ascender line, anticlockwise, down to the baseline.

Close the circle finger off the middle of the Q.

We'll make a little diagonal line to just below the baseline.

Fantastic.

Next, I'm gonna have a go at making this letter Q using my fist.

At the ascender line, I'm gonna go anticlockwise to the baseline.

Close the circle, fist off, back into the middle and make a diagonal line.

It's your turn.

Get your fist position, let's go.

From the ascender line, anticlockwise, to the baseline.

Close the circle, fist off and diagonal line to just below the baseline.

Well done.

Those Qs look great.

<v ->I'm going to show you how to form the capital letter Q.

</v> I'm sitting comfortably and holding my pen in the tripod grip.

I'm going to start at the ascender line and I'm going to go round in anticlockwise direction down to the baseline, all the way back up to the ascender line to close that circle.

And then from the middle of the Q, I'm going to draw a diagonal line to just below the baseline.

Let's try that again.

So from the ascender line, I'm going anticlockwise.

And I'm going down to the baseline and then back up to the ascender line.

And then from the middle of the letter Q, I'm going to draw a diagonal line down to just below the baseline.

One more.

`From the ascend line, I'm going around anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Keep going around, around.

Back up to the ascender line.

Take my pen off.

And then from the middle of the queue, I'm going to make a diagonal line down to just below the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the capital letter Q? Is it the letter you can see above the A, B, or C? Pause the video here.

Well done if you chose the letter Q in the middle, this one is sitting in between the ascender line and the baseline and it has that little diagonal line coming out from the middle to down below the baseline.

Well done.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dots.

And finally, complete two lines of each letter independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy every O, enjoy every Q.

Pause the video here.

How did it go? How did you get on with forming the capital letters O and Q? Did you start on the ascender line? Did you go round in an anticlockwise direction? Did you enjoy every one? Circle your best O, circle your best Q, and celebrate.

In our lesson formation of C, G, O and Q, we have covered the following.

Capital letters are uppercase formations of a letter.

Capital letters are used at the beginning of a sentence for proper nouns and for the pronoun I.

The letters C, G, O, and Q all start on the ascender line and they curl around in an anticlockwise direction.

Capital letters sit between the baseline and the ascender line.

Well done, everyone.

You did such a great job on this lesson.