Hello everyone, this is Miss Afsao 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 can correctly form capital letters and the days of the week." Let's get into it.

There are a few key words in today's lesson that I want you to look for.

I want you to listen for these words and I want you to think carefully about these words.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Capital letter, proper noun, days of the week.

Let's make sure we are listening out for and looking out for these words.

Today's lesson, practise of capital letters and days of the week has four parts to it.

First of all, we'll be revising our capital letters.

Next, we'll practise writing Monday and Tuesday.

Then we'll practise writing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

And we'll finish with practise writing Saturday and Sunday.

Let's begin with capital letters.

So let's have a think together and discuss the following question with your talk partner or someone at home.

What is a capital letter and when would you use it? So think about this and share with somebody.

Pause the video here.

So here we have some capital letters.

We've got a capital O, G, C and Q.

I wonder what you came up with.

Did you share about the fact that a capital letter is the uppercase formation of the letter? So we have lower case letters and we have uppercase formations of letters.

And how do we use the capital letters? Well, proper nouns, which name specific people, places or things, they all have a capital letter at the start.

So your name has a capital letter.

My name has a capital letter.

The place where we live, that has a capital letter.

So if we have a specific person, place or thing, that will begin with a capital letter, proper nouns.

They always need capital letters.

The first word in a sentence always needs a capital letter and the pronoun I.

So we're talking about ourselves, we say, "I went to the park." That will always have a capital letter, wherever it is in the sentence, even if it's in the middle, not just at the beginning.

Here we have these lovely days.

We have seven fantastic days of the week.

Here they all are and they all begin with a capital letter.

So there are seven days in the week.

Each day has a name.

And so the days of the week are proper nouns.

And remember we talked about that.

Proper nouns need capital letter.

So when you are writing the days of the week, you'll always use a capital letter for each of these days.

I wonder, what's your favourite day, and do you make sure that you always have a capital letter at the front of every day of the week, your favourite day and even all of the other days? Check for understanding.

Select the true statements.

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

Capital letters are used for proper nouns like the days of the week.

Capital letters can be used anywhere in the sentence.

The pronoun, I, always has a capital letter.

Pause the video here while you decide which of these are the true statements.

Well done if you selected the first two statements and the last one because yes, we always start the first word in a sentence with a capital.

Capital letters are used for proper nouns like the days of the week.

And the pronoun, I, always has a capital letter.

So let's just revise a little bit more about capital letters.

So they can be formed, capital letters can be formed in a similar way or in a different way to their matching lowercase letter.

So as you can see here, the capital letter G, it looks quite different to the lowercase letter G.

Whereas the Cs, they really are formed in exactly the same way.

They're just a different size.

They're sitting between different lines of our tram lines.

So another thing about capital letters is that they always sit on the baseline and they always reach up to the ascender line.

And capital letters can be formed in different ways, but they're always the same size.

So they're always this size from the baseline to the ascender line.

Check for understanding, true or false, capital letters reach down to the descender line.

Is that statement true or false? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected false, that is not true.

They don't reach down to the descender line.

They sit on the baseline and they reach up to the ascender line.

For your task, I'd like you to have a look at these sentences and some of them are missing their capital letters.

They have lost their capital letters.

I'd like you to discuss with your partner and circle the letters that need to change into capital letters.

So first of all, we've got "the boy went to the shop." Next "We are going to wales on holiday." And finally "kavita and I went to the zoo." Pause the video while you decide where to change from a lowercase to a capital letter.

So the sentences below are not using capital letters correctly.

So first of all, we can see that that t, that lowercase t, needs to be a capital because it's at the start of the sentence and we always begin a sentence with a capital letter.

Let's look at the next one.

Did you spot that w? Oh my goodness.

Why do we have a lowercase w when it's a proper noun? Wales is the name of a specific place, lovely place.

And finally, Kavita is a proper noun.

It's somebody's name.

So it must be a capital K.

And the I must be a capital I as it's the pronoun I when we're talking about ourselves.

So we onto the next part of our lesson where we are going to practise writing Monday and Tuesday.

We're getting into the days of the week, and first of all, we are going to do some warm-ups to get our hands and our wrists ready for writing.

We are going to start our handwriting warm-ups with a really, really fun warm-up.

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 these lovely imaginary tunes.

What a great, great sound.

What a great stretch for our fingers.

Well done everyone.

Next we are 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, those are 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 relaxed, well done.

Can you see that Monday has appeared on our screen? The day Monday is here.

Let's look closely at it.

What can you see? What do you notice about Monday? Pause the video here while you tell somebody what you can see.

Did you notice that the word Monday has a capital letter M at the beginning? All the other letters in the word are lowercase letters.

There are six letters in the word Monday and the letter D has an ascender and the letter Y has a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Monday.

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

I'm going to start on a baseline and I'm going to form the capital letter M.

I'm going to go all the way up to the ascender line, down to the x-height line, back up to the ascender line and down to the baseline.

I'm gonna take my pen off.

And now I'm going to place it on the x-height line to form the following, x-height ascender and descender letters starting with the O and then the N.

I am remembering to take my pen off the page each time I form a new letter, the D, the A and the Y.

Monday.

I'm making sure all of my letters are sitting next to each other and not leaving a large finger space in between them.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of the word, Monday.

Which of these three Mondays is the right one? Pause the video here.

Well done if you selected that first Monday because that's got the capital that's in the correct place.

We start our days of the week with a capital.

We don't have a capital in the middle as in the last example.

And we don't start with the lowercase letter as in the second example.

And here comes Tuesday.

Here is the word Tuesday.

Let's look closely at it.

What can you see? What do you notice? Tell the person next to you.

Pause the video here.

The word Tuesday has a capital letter T at the beginning.

Did you notice that? And all the other letters are lowercase letters.

There are seven letters in the word Tuesday and it has an ascender in the letter D.

And the letter Y has a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Tuesday.

I'm sitting comfortably.

I'm holding my pen in the tripod grip.

I'm going to start on the ascender line to make my capital letter T, going down to the baseline and then back up and across.

And now I'm taking my pen off and I'm going to place it on the x-height line to form the following x-height ascender and descender letters.

U.

Next comes the E, the S, D, A and Y.

Making sure I've got a nice even space between each of my letters.

Tuesday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of the word Tuesday.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected the Tuesday in the middle that's got the capital letter at the beginning, not at the end and not in the middle.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the words Monday and Tuesday.

First of all, go over the grey capital letters M and T, which we're going to beginning our days of Monday and Tuesday with.

Next, go over the grey words, Monday and Tuesday.

And finally complete two lines independently of Monday and Tuesday on your tramlines.

Enjoy all of these letters and all of these words.

These are great days of the week to practise.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with forming the words Monday and Tuesday? Did you start with a capital letter? Are all the other letters lowercase? Did you ensure your letters were sitting next to each other on the baseline? Did you enjoy all of these letters and all of these words? Circle your best day of the week and celebrate.

And now we'll be practising writing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Here is Wednesday.

Let's look closely at this word, Wednesday.

What can you see? What do you notice about Wednesday? Tell the person next to you.

Pause the video here.

The word Wednesday has a capital letter W at the beginning.

All the other letters in the word are lowercase letters.

And there are nine letters in the word Wednesday.

Letter D has an ascender, both those Ds, and letter Y has a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Wednesday.

I'm sitting comfortably.

I'm holding my pen in the tripod grip and I'm going to start on the ascender line to make the capital letter W.

Some really nice diagonal lines here.

There's my W.

And now I've taken my pen off.

And then I'm gonna place it down again to form the remaining letters, which are a mixture of x-height ascender and descender letters starting with the E, the D, N, another E, S, D, A and Y.

Wednesday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of Wednesday.

Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done if you picked C, that's the correct one.

It's got a capital letter at the beginning, and the letters are all next to one another on the baseline.

Here's Thursday.

Oh my goodness, it's Thursday already.

What can you see? What do you notice about Thursday? Pause the video.

Tell somebody nearby.

Well, Thursday has a capital letter T at the beginning.

All the other letters in the word are lowercase letters.

There are eight letters in the word Thursday.

And the letters D and letters H have ascenders.

And the letter Y has a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Thursday.

I'm sitting comfortably.

I'm holding my pen in the tripod grip and I'm going to begin up at the ascender line with a capital T.

And then I'm taking my pen off the page to make the remaining letters.

Going to start up on the ascender for the H, down to the x-height line for the U and the R and the S, D goes all the way up, the A and the Y.

Thursday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of Thursday.

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

Well done if you selected B.

That's got the capital letter at the beginning where it should be.

And here's Friday.

It's Friday.

That's a great, great day.

Well, they're all great days, but I really love Friday.

Let's look closely at this letter, at this word.

Let's look closely at this word Friday.

What can you see? What do you notice? Tell somebody nearby.

What did you notice? Did you notice that the word Friday has a capital letter F at the beginning? Did you notice that all the other letters in the word are lowercase letters? There are six letters in the word Friday and the D is an ascender and the Y is a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Friday.

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

I'm going to start up on the ascender line, come down to the baseline, and then there's two lines across for the capital F.

And now I come to the x-height line for the remaining letters.

F-R-I-D- A and Y.

Friday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of Friday.

Which of these is the right Friday? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done.

It's that first one.

That's the perfect Friday.

It's got a capital F, it's got that capital at the beginning, not in the middle, and it's not missing one at the start.

That's the Friday for us.

For your task, I would like you to practise writing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

First of all, go over the grey capital letters W, T, and F.

Next, I would like you to go over the grey words, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

And finally, complete two lines independently of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday on your tramlines.

Enjoy writing all of these days.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with writing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday? Did you start with a capital letter? Are all the other letters lowercase? Did you ensure your letters were sitting next to each other on the baseline? Circle your best Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and celebrate.

And now we're at the weekend.

It's Saturday and Sunday time.

Let's practise writing Saturday and Sunday.

Here it is, it's Saturday.

Saturday's here on our screen.

Let's look closely at it.

What can you see? What do you notice about Saturday? Pause the video and tell someone nearby The word Saturday has a capital letter S at the beginning.

Did you notice that? All the other letters in the word are lowercase letters.

There are eight letters in the word Saturday and letters D and T both have ascenders.

The letter Y has a descender.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Saturday.

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

I'm starting just below the ascender line for the capital S.

And then I'm on the x-height line.

And then just above it for the T, U, R, D, A, Y.

Saturday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of Saturday.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected the Saturday in the middle that's got the capital letter at the beginning.

That's the Saturday that we want.

And now it's the end of the week, it's Sunday.

Look closely at this Sunday.

What can you see? What do you notice about this word? Tell someone nearby.

Pause the video.

Sunday has a capital letter S at the beginning.

All the other letters in the word are lowercase letters.

There are six letters in the word Sunday and it has an ascender for the letter D and a descender for the letter Y.

I'm going to show you how to write the word Sunday.

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

I'm going to start just below the ascender line for the capital S.

And then I'm down to the x-height line for the U.

Then the N, D, A and the Y.

Sunday.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of Sunday.

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

Well done if you selected the top Sunday.

That really is the top Sunday because it is got a capital S at the beginning.

That's what we need for our Sunday to be the right one.

For your task, I'd like you to practise writing Saturday and Sunday.

First of all, go over the grey capital letter S and then go over the grey words, Saturday and Sunday.

And finally, complete two lines independently of Saturday and Sunday on your tram lines.

Enjoy forming both of these words.

It's the weekend.

It's a great time.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with writing Saturday and Sunday? Did you start with a capital letter for each one? Are all the other letters lowercase? Did you ensure your letters were sitting next to each other on the baseline? Did you enjoy writing Saturday and Sunday so many times on your tram lines? Circle your best one and celebrate.

In our lesson "Practise of capital letters and days of the week," we've covered the following.

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

Capital letters are the uppercase formation of letters.

There are seven days in a week.

Days of the week are proper nouns, so they always start with a capital letter.