Hello, everyone, I'm Ms. Afselle, 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 also 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 of today's lesson is I can form the capital letters I, E, F and L.

Are you ready to begin? In today's lesson, there will be some key words that I would like you to keep your eyes looking out for and to make sure your ears are listening out for these words.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Vertical line.

Horizontal line.

Make sure you're looking for these words.

Make sure you're listening out for these words, and hopefully you'll have a really good understanding of these words by the end of the lesson.

Today's lesson has four parts to it.

In this lesson formation of I, E, F, and L, we will begin with forming the capital letter I.

We'll move on to forming the capital letter E.

Next up, forming the capital letter F, and we will finish with forming the capital letter L.

Let's start with that capital letter I.

Now, do you remember that when we're doing handwriting, we need to first of all make sure our hands and wrists are strong and our hands and wrists get stronger when we exercise them.

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

You can do exercises to warm up your hands or practise handwriting patterns.

Let's have a go at some warmup exercises now.

We're going to start our handwriting warmups with a really, really fun warmup.

This one is piano playing.

And this is so much fun because we get to exercise our hands and we get to imagine a really fun tune in our head.

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

I'm getting my fingers in position on top of my imaginary piano, and I am going to start pressing each of these keys on the keyboard by moving my fingers and pressing them down, stretching my fingers, moving along the keyboard, making a lovely tune.

Oh, my goodness, this sounds great.

I'm enjoying hearing this in my mind.

Wonderful.

And now it's your turn.

Get your hands ready.

Get your fingers in position on just above the keys on your piano keyboard and let's go.

Let's start playing our tune.

So you're pressing your fingers down on the imaginary piano keyboard.

You are stretching out your fingers 'cause you need to go and to reach some of those notes that are a little bit further away.

Oh, how's your tune sounding? Are you enjoying it? I can hear all this lovely imaginary tunes.

What a great, great sound.

What a great stretch for our fingers.

Well done, everyone.

Next, we're going to have a go at the clapping position.

So for this, we're going to bring our hands together as if we were clapping.

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

And I'm gonna press all of my fingers into each other.

So fingers from this hand are pressing into the fingers from this hand.

And my palms, the centre of your hand.

The palms are pressing against each other as well.

It's a really, really nice way for us to get our hands and our wrists as well ready for handwriting.

Mm, it feels really nice.

It's your turn.

Get your hands ready as if you're going to clap.

You deserve a clap after this and let's press them together.

Pressing together each of your fingers.

Pressing together your thumbs.

Pressing the palms of your hands together.

Your wrists are getting a nice little stretch here as well.

Doesn't this feel great? Oh, lovely, and relax.

All done.

And here, we have the capital letter I.

Can you see this capital letter I on your screen? And can you see the lowercase letter I? Let's look closely at them.

What can you see? What do you notice about them? What's the same? What's different? Turn to someone nearby and tell them everything you notice.

Pause the video here.

Did you notice that they have a different formation? They are not formed in the same way.

So the capital letter I goes all the way up to the ascender line.

Whereas, the lowercase letter I is an x-height letter.

It goes up to the x-height line.

Well, of course, it's got that little lovely dot on the top, which is just above the line.

So they have a different formation.

Let's find out more.

So the capital letter I and the lowercase letter I are formed in different ways as we've seen.

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

It's formed by going straight down.

That means a vertical line when you go straight down.

And then lifting the pencil up to make horizontal lines.

So horizontal lines that are ones that go across ways.

Horizontal lines across the ascender line and on the baseline.

So I am going to have a go at forming the capital letter I in the air.

First of all, I'm going to use my finger and then you'll have a go.

And then after that, I'm gonna have a go using my fist.

All right, are we ready? So I'm going to start up at the ascender line and I'm going to make a vertical line.

That means a line that goes straight down to the baseline.

Next, I'm gonna lift my pencil off the page, the imaginary page, and put it back on the ascender line, and I'm going to make a horizontal line, that means across ways, across the ascender line, pencil off, down to the baseline, and another horizontal line.

Let me show you that one more time, bit faster.

From the ascender line, vertical line down, pencil off, horizontal line across the ascender line and a horizontal line across the baseline.

Are you ready for your turn? Let's get our fingers ready at the ascender line.

And let's go straight down to the baseline, pencil off, across the ascender line, and pencil off, across the baseline.

Fantastic.

One more.

All the way down from ascender to baseline, pencil off, across the ascender line, pencil off, across the baseline.

Look at those capital I's sitting so proudly in the air.

They're looking great.

Are you ready to make some with your fist? Let's go.

Let's start up at the ascender line.

Let me go first, sorry.

I'm gonna go down to the baseline, pencil off, across the ascender line, pencil off, across the baseline.

It's your turn, ready.

Start at the ascender line, let's go.

Straight down, vertical line down, pencil off, horizontal line across, pencil off, horizontal line across the baseline.

One more.

Straight down across the ascender, across the baseline.

Look at those.

Hope you're feeling proud.

They look great.

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

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

I'm going to start up at the ascender line and I'm going to make a vertical line down to the baseline.

Then I'm going to lift my pen and make a horizontal line across the ascender line, lift my pen and make a horizontal line across the baseline.

Let's try that again.

Start at the ascender line, vertical line down to the baseline, pen off, horizontal line across the ascender line, horizontal line across the baseline.

One more time.

From the ascender to the baseline, pencil off, across the ascender line, pen off, and across the baseline.

Check for understanding.

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

Well done if you ticked the first capital letter I that we can see.

That one is formed correctly and it's sitting in between the ascender line and the baseline with two horizontal lines going across ways.

Well done.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot to help you know where to begin.

And finally, complete two lines of the capital letter I independently on your tram lines.

Stay focused, enjoy.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with forming the capital letter I? Did you start on the ascender line? Did you make a vertical line down to the baseline? Did you lift your pencil off and make horizontal lines across the baseline and across the ascender line? Circle your best one and celebrate.

You've done a great job.

Well done.

For the next part of our lesson, we will be forming the capital letter E.

Let's get into it.

Here it is.

Here's the E, the capital letter E.

Here is the lowercase letter E.

Let's take a closer look.

What do you see? What do you notice? What's the same? What's different? Tell somebody nearby what you can see.

Pause the video here.

Okay, did you notice that these two letter Es have different formation? They are not formed in the same way.

They're formed in different ways.

So the capital letter E, we can see it's going all the way up to the ascender line and it's made up of a lot of straight lines.

And the lowercase letter E is an x-height letter, just goes up as high as the x-height line and it's got curves in it.

So that's quite different.

What else can we find out? So as we've said, the capital letter E and the lowercase letter E are formed in different ways.

The capital letter E starts all the way up on the ascender line.

It sits all the way down on the baseline and it's formed by going straight down as a vertical line down and then lifting the pencil to make horizontal lines across three of them in fact.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter E in the air.

I'm gonna use my finger first of all, then it'll be your turn.

Then I'm gonna have a go using my fist.

Are you ready to watch? So I'm gonna start all the way up here on the ascender line and I'm going to make a vertical line.

So vertical remember means going straight down.

I'm going down to the baseline, I lift up my pencil back up to the ascender line and I make a horizontal line that means across ways, across the ascender line.

Pick up my pencil and another horizontal line across the x-height line.

Pick up my pencil and another horizontal line across the baseline.

So actually, it's four lines here.

We've got one vertical line and then one, two, three horizontal lines.

I'll show you one more time.

From the ascender lines, straight down to the baseline, pencil off, across the ascender line, across the x-height line and across the baseline.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Get that writing pencil in the air.

Let's go.

From the ascender line all the way down to the baseline, pencil off, and across horizontal line, across the ascender line, pencil off, horizontal line across the x-height line, pencil off, and horizontal line across the baseline.

Let's try that one more time.

Straight down from the ascender to the baseline, pencil off, and three horizontal lines.

Really, really nice job, everyone.

And now I'm going to have a go at using my fist.

We know the score, so I'm just gonna go straight for it.

From the ascender line down to the baseline, off and three horizontal lines at the ascender, at the x-height line and at the baseline.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Fist in the air.

Let's go.

Straight down, vertical line down from ascender to baseline, pencil off, and three lines across, one, two, three.

Let's have one more go.

This works fun, isn't it? Let's go.

Straight down, pencil off, and one, two, three horizontal lines.

Love those.

Well done, everybody? I'm going to show you how to form the capital letter E.

I'm going to start at the ascender line and make a vertical line down to the baseline.

Pick up my pen and make three horizontal lines.

One across the ascender line, one across the x-height line, and one across the baseline.

Let's try that again.

From the ascender line, a vertical line down to the baseline, pen off, and then three horizontal lines across the ascender line, the x-height line and the baseline.

One more.

All the way down, and then three horizontal lines.

Check for understanding.

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

Well done if you take the one in the middle.

This letter E is sitting in between the correct lines, which is that it should be sitting between the ascender line and the baseline.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot, show you where to begin.

And finally, complete two lines of the capital letter E independently on your tram lines.

Stay focused.

Enjoy these capital letter Es.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on forming the capital letter E? Did you start on the ascender line? Did you make a vertical line all the way down to the baseline? Did you lift your pencil off to make three horizontal lines? That means going across ways.

One, across the ascender line.

Next one, across the x-height line.

And finally, across the baseline.

Did you have fun? Did you enjoy them all? Circle your best one and celebrate.

You deserve a celebration.

And now we're at the part of our lesson where we'll be forming the capital letter F.

Are you ready for these Fs? And here they are.

We've got two of them.

We've got a capital letter F.

We have got a lowercase letter F.

Let's look closely at them.

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

Tell somebody nearby.

So did you notice that the capital letter F starts at the ascender line? That's how high up it goes, all the way up to the ascender line.

Whereas, the lowercase letter F, it does not go quite as high as that.

It goes above the x-height line a little way, but it doesn't go all the way up to the ascender line.

Did you notice that the capital letter F is made up of straight lines? Whereas, the lowercase letter F has some curves and it actually has a curl up at the end, just around the baseline.

So these two letters have a different formation.

They are not formed in the same way.

Let's find out some more.

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

The capital letter F starts all the way up on the ascender line, it sits on the baseline, and is formed by going straight down, vertical line down, and then lifting the pencil to make horizontal lines across ways.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter F in the air.

I'm gonna be using my finger and then it'll be your turn.

Then I'm gonna have a go using my trusty elbow and then it will be your turn.

Okay, let's begin.

I'm gonna go first.

I'm starting up here on the ascender line and I'm going to make a vertical line straight down.

That means just straight, straight down, going from the ascender line to the baseline, pencil off, back up to where I started and I'm gonna go across.

That's a horizontal line across the ascender line, pencil off, and one more horizontal line across the x-height line.

Let me show you one more time.

From the ascender, vertical line down to the baseline, pick up my pencil, horizontal line across the ascender line, pencil off, horizontal line across the x-height line.

Fabuloso, are you ready for your turn? Put your finger in the air on the ascender line.

Let's go.

Vertical line straight down to the baseline, pencil off, and do horizontal lines.

One across the ascender line and one across the x-height line.

Let's try it again.

Straight down, pencil off, and two horizontal lines.

Look at those Fs.

Wonderful job.

Let's try using our elbow.

I'm gonna go first.

Starting at the ascender line, straight down, pencil off, and two horizontal lines.

It's your turn.

Get those writing elbows ready.

Let's go.

Straight down, pencil off, and two horizontal lines.

Fantastic Fs, everybody.

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

I'm going to start at the ascender line, make a vertical line down to the baseline, pick up my pen and make two horizontal lines.

One across the ascender line and one across the x-height line.

Let's try that again.

From the ascender line, vertical line down to the baseline, and then two horizontal lines, one across the ascender line and one across the x-height line.

One more time.

Start at the ascender line, vertical line down to the baseline, pick up my pen, and two horizontal lines.

Check for understanding.

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

Well done.

It's that first F we can see on the left hand side.

That one is sitting in between the ascender line and the baseline.

For your task, I would like you to practise forming the capital letter F.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot.

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

Stay focused.

Enjoy these capital Fs.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on forming the capital letter F? Did you remember to start on the ascender line? Did you make a vertical line all the way down to the baseline? Did you lift your pencil and then make horizontal lines? That means going across ways, across the ascender line, and across the x-height line.

Did you enjoy every single one? And have a look which is your best one.

Circle the best one and celebrate.

And now, it's time for us to have a look at forming the capital letter L.

Here, we have two Ls.

We've got a capital L, we've got a lowercase L.

Let's look closely at them.

What's the same? What's different? What can you see? Pause the video here and tell somebody nearby.

Did you notice that the capital letter L goes all the way up to the ascender line? Did you notice that the lowercase letter L is a tall letter? So it's also all the way up there at the ascender line.

Did you notice that both of these letter Ls are sitting on the baseline? So they have a slightly different formation because the capital letter L also has a horizontal line across.

Whereas, the lowercase letter L has a little flick.

So this is a different formation, but there's something similar.

That vertical line down is similar.

So the capital letter L and the lowercase letter L are formed in different ways.

There is something different about them.

The capital letter L is made of two straight lines.

It's made by going straight down, vertical line down, and then a horizontal line across.

I'm going to have a go at forming the capital letter L in the air.

I'm gonna use my finger and then it'll be your turn.

Then I'm going to use my trusty nose and then you can have a go.

So I'm gonna start up here at the ascender line.

I'm gonna make a vertical line straight down to the baseline.

And then I'm keeping my finger on the page.

I don't need to move it.

All I need to do is go straight across, horizontal line across the baseline.

Let me show you again.

It's super nice and easy this one.

I love this one.

At the ascender line, vertical line straight down to the baseline, and then across the baseline.

Lovely.

Your turn.

Get your fingers ready at the ascender line.

Let's go, just two lines.

One straight down to the baseline and another straight across the baseline.

Should we try again? From the ascender line down to the baseline, across the baseline.

Lovely.

I'm gonna have a go of my nose now.

So I'm gonna start.

I'm gonna get up here.

Start up at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go straight down and then of across.

Lemme show you one more time.

At the ascender line, straight down, and across.

It's your turn.

Get those writing noses ready at the ascender line.

Let's go.

Down and across.

One more.

Down and across.

Lovely, lovely letter Ls.

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

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

First of all, I'm going to start at the ascender line and I'm going to make a vertical line down to the baseline, and then I'm making a horizontal line across the baseline.

So I'm not lifting my pen when I make the capital letter L.

Just two lines straight down from the ascender line to the baseline, and then across the baseline.

One more.

Ascender line down to baseline, across the baseline.

Check for understanding.

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

Well done.

It's the L above the C.

This one is starting on the ascender line, goes all the way down to the baseline, and then goes across the baseline.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dots.

And finally, complete two lines of the capital letter L independently on your tram lines.

Enjoy making this two-lined letter L and pause the video here.

How did it go forming the capital letter L? Did you start all the way up on the ascender line? Did you make two lines? A vertical line down to the baseline.

Did you make a horizontal line across the baseline? Did you enjoy every single one? Did you stay focused? Celebrate your best one by circling it and giving yourself a little high five or a pat on the back.

Well done.

In today's lesson, formation of capital letters I, E, F, and L, we have covered the following.

The letters I, E, F, and L all start on the ascender line.

The letters I, E, F, and L all have a vertical line going down to the baseline.

And letters I, E, and F need the pencil to be lifted to form the horizontal lines.

Whereas for the letter L, you can keep your pencil on the page.

It's been a great lesson.

Thanks for joining in, everyone.

See you next time.