Hello, everyone, this is Ms. Apsel here again to share some more handwriting with you.

I'm so excited to be here.

I hope you're feeling excited to.

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 correctly form the numerals zero to five.

I'm really looking forward to us forming these numerals together, let's get going.

In today's lesson, we have got a few very important words that we want to be looking out for, and listening out for, and thinking carefully about.

Let's go through them.

My turn, your turn.

Continuous motion.

Numeral.

Digit.

Okay, so let's make sure we are looking out for, listening out for, thinking carefully about all of these words that are going to come up in our lesson today.

In our lesson, formation of zero to five, we have got three parts to this lesson.

First of all, we'll practise forming the numerals zero and one.

In the next section, we'll practise forming the numerals two and three.

And finally, we'll practise forming the numerals four and five.

Let's move into our first section, forming the numerals zero and one.

And let's start with some warmups.

Let's have a go at our hand-squeeze warmup.

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

I'm gonna choose which hand to begin with.

This one, and I'm gonna start by stretching out all my fingers, stretching them really wide, really far apart.

And then I'm gonna slowly bring them in.

And I'm going to imagine I've got something precious in my hand, and I'm squeezing, and holding it tight, holding something tightly in my hand.

Something tiny, tiny and precious.

And then I'm going to open out my fingers into that lovely stretch once again.

And then back into a squeeze, holding something precious and tight.

I'm gonna try with the other hand, first of all, that lovely big stretch.

Stretch all my fingers.

And then bringing all those fingers in and squeezing something, holding something precious, holding it tight.

Out to that lovely stretch, and then fingers in to a lovely squeeze.

Mm, feels great.

Okay, it's your turn.

Choose which hand you're going to begin with.

Put that hand up, open up the fingers, stretch them wide, and then squeeze them tight.

Hold something precious, and tiny, and tight.

And then stretch and squeeze.

Lovely, other hand.

First of all, stretch.

And then squeeze the hand tight.

Stretch and squeeze.

Oh, lovely job, everybody.

Next, we're going to move on to our wrist circles.

First of all, I'm going to stretch my hands out in front of me and then I'm going to pull my fingers in, or the fists, and then I'm going to make circles moving in one direction.

Lovely circles.

And then I'm going to go in the other direction.

This feels good, this feels fun.

Are you ready to join in? Let's go, take your hands, put 'em out in front of you, form fists.

Let's go, one direction.

Other direction.

Let's just do it again because it's so much fun.

We can't really stop 'cause we're enjoying ourselves so much.

That's the way to do it.

And what can you see in front of you now? Have a look, what's here on the screen? Can you see what's arrived? Have a look at this numeral and look very closely at it.

What can you see, what do you notice? Tell the person next to you everything that you see.

Pause the video here.

Mm-hm, so did you notice that this numeral zero is formed of one curved line? Did you notice that it goes all the way up to the ascender line, and that it's sitting comfortably on the baseline? I wonder if you noticed all of those things.

Give me a thumbs up if you did.

Yay, that's great to see.

Let's find out a little bit more about the numeral zero.

So the numeral zero starts on the ascender line.

And let's think a little bit about this word numeral.

So zero is a number and what numeral means a symbol or a word that stands for that number.

So here we've got this symbol, which is a kind of oval shape.

And this, this is the numeral that stands for the number zero.

And this numeral zero is sitting on the baseline.

The numeral zero is formed with one continuous motion.

So a continuous motion means we keep moving and we don't take our pencil off the page, we just keep moving.

And this is formed with one continuous motion in an anticlockwise direction.

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

This is anticlockwise.

And the numeral zero is formed in a similar way to the lowercase letter O.

And as we looked at the numeral is a digit that represents a number.

So we might have the number in the number 25.

We might have two digits, the two and the five.

And the numeral is both of those together.

So both the two and the five is the numeral.

So those are the the symbols that make up that number.

It's time to form the numeral zero in the air.

This is such a lovely one to form because it's just got that one really nice continuous movement, and it's nice, and flowing, and curved shape.

So I'm gonna begin, first of all, so it'll be my turn.

Then afterwards, your turn.

So I'm gonna start here on the ascender line, and I'm going to go round in an anticlockwise direction.

All the way down, curving down to the baseline, and then I'm gonna keep going around.

Back up to the ascender line.

Let me show you one more time.

So start at the ascender line and I'm going anticlockwise curling down to the baseline, and then I'm going back up and around to where I started.

Okay, it's your turn to form the numeral zero.

Put your finger up on the ascender line.

Let's go anticlockwise down to the baseline.

Keep going.

One continuous movement.

Do you know what? We can keep our finger there.

Let's go over the one we already did.

Let's just keep going.

One more continuous movement, fantastic.

Look at those zeros, they look great.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral zero.

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

I'm going to start on the ascender line and I'm going around in an anticlockwise direction down to the baseline, and then I'm gonna curl around, back up to the ascender line to close the circle.

Let's try that again.

So I start at the ascender line and I'm going anticlockwise down to the baseline, and then I'm curling back up and around to where I started to close the circle.

And let's try one more zero.

Start at the ascender line, anticlockwise down to the baseline and then back up to the ascender line.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral zero? Is it the zero you see above the A, B, or C? Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done if you picked the numeral zero over the C, that's the right one.

It's sitting on the baseline and it's going all the way up to the ascender line.

Can you see what's appeared on the screen? It's the numeral one.

Have a very close look at it.

What do you notice, what do you see? Tell the person next to you everything there is to say about the numeral one.

Pause the video here.

Did you notice these three things? The numeral one is made up of a straight line.

The numeral one goes up as high as the ascender line and it sits on the baseline.

I wonder if you noticed all of those things.

Really well done, thumbs up if you did, great stuff.

Let's find out more about the numeral one.

So the numeral one starts all the way up here on the ascender line.

It sits on the baseline.

And it has one straight line.

The numeral one is formed with one continuous motion.

We just keep moving.

We stay in motion.

Motion means moving, so we're just moving continuously.

We don't stop until we finish our numeral one.

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

This is a great numeral to form because it's probably the easiest thing we will ever form in our handwriting lessons.

We are gonna start here at the ascender line.

All we're gonna do is go straight down to the baseline.

Boom, that's it, we're done.

Again, ascender line, straight line down to the baseline.

Oh my goodness, that was easy, that was fun.

Let's have a go together, ready? Start at the ascender line and straight line down to the baseline.

Take your finger off.

Let's try again.

Up here at the centre line, straight line, one continuous motion.

We cannot stop making this one continuous motion because it's so easy and it's so much fun.

Well done, great job.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral one.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'm going to start on the ascender line and make a straight line down to the baseline.

Let's try again.

Start on the ascender line and make one straight line down to the baseline.

And one more, start on the ascender line, straight line down to the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral one? Which of these ones is the one for us? Pause the video while you decide.

Yes, well done, it's the one in the middle.

That's the one for us because it's starting at the ascender line, one straight line down to the baseline.

That's the one.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the numerals zero and one.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot.

And finally complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy every zero, enjoy every one, everyone.

Pause the video here.

So how did you get on with forming the numerals zero and one? Did you use one continuous motion to form the numeral zero? Did you start and end on the ascender line? How about the number one, the numeral one? Did you use one continuous motion to form the numeral one? Is your numeral one standing up nice and straight? Did you have fun? Do you enjoy them all? Circle your best one and celebrate, yay.

Next we'll move on to practise forming the numerals two and three.

Here it is, here's the two.

Let's look closely.

Take a very good look.

Peering at this number numeral two, what do you see? What do you notice? Tell somebody nearby everything there is to know and to see about the numeral two.

Pause the video here.

Mm-hm, oh my goodness, there's a lot of things going on here.

Have a look at what we can see here.

Did you notice that the numeral two starts with a curved line? Did you notice that down at the bottom there's a straight line.

It goes up as high as ascender line.

It sits on the baseline.

I hope you manage to share with your partners some of these things.

Let's find out more about the numeral two.

The numeral two reaches all the way up to the ascender line.

The numeral two is sitting comfortably on the baseline.

The numeral two, actually it has three kinds of lines in it, three different kinds.

This is fun, isn't it? It's got a curved line, it's got a diagonal line, and then it has a straight line across.

The numeral two is made with one continuous motion.

We just keep moving.

We don't stop, we don't take our pencil off the page.

I'm going to have a go at forming the numeral two in the air using my finger, and then afterwards it will be your turn.

I'm going to start in between the ascender line and the x-height line.

And I'm going to go around in a clockwise direction up to the ascender line, and then I'm going to go down and make a diagonal line down to the baseline.

And then I'm going to go straight across on the baseline.

So it's three different lines there.

Let me try again.

So start in between the ascender line and the x-height line.

And I go clockwise up to the ascender line and around, and then I make a diagonal line down to the baseline and then a straight line across.

Okay, it's your turn.

Are you ready for the two? Numeral two, let's go.

Get in position in between the ascender and the x-height line.

Clockwise curved line, then a diagonal line to the baseline, and then a straight line across the baseline.

Let's try one more, and remember, enjoy this one continuous motion.

Let's go clockwise, diagonal straight line across.

Look at all of those.

They look wonderful, well done.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral two.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'm going to start just below the ascender line and I'm gonna curl up to the ascender line and I'm gonna curl around.

And then I'm gonna go down diagonally to the baseline and then make a horizontal line across the baseline.

Let's try that again.

So I'm starting just below the ascender line, and I'm gonna curl up to the ascender line, keep curling around, and then go down diagonally to the baseline, and then a horizontal line across.

One more, start just below the ascender line.

Curl up to the ascender line, curl around, make a diagonal down to the baseline and then a horizontal line across.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral two? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done.

It's the two in the middle.

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

It's got the curve, it's got the diagonal line, and then with one continuous motion, it's got that straight line across.

Well done if you chose this.

Look what's appeared.

It's the numeral three.

What do you notice about it? What can you see? Take a look, tell the person next to you everything that you can notice about this numeral three.

Pause the video here.

Did you notice all of these things? Did you notice that the numeral three goes up as high as the ascender line? The numeral three sits on the baseline and it's made up of curved lines.

All of the lines in the numeral three are curved.

Let's find out some more.

The numeral three reaches up to the ascender line.

The numeral three sits on the baseline.

The numeral three has two curved lines and it's formed with one continuous motion.

I don't take my pencil off the page when I form the numeral three.

It's time to form the numeral three in the air.

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

I'm going to use my finger, and I'm gonna get in my starting position, which is just below the ascender line.

I'm going to go up to the ascender line and then I'm gonna curl around in a clockwise direction into the x-height line, and then I'm going to curl around again in a clockwise direction.

This time down to the baseline.

Let me show you one more time.

The whole thing is one continuous motion.

So I start just below the ascender line.

I go up to the ascender line and I curl around and then down into the x-height line.

Then I'm going to again curl around down to the baseline.

Are you ready for your turn? Let's go, start just below the ascender line, up to the ascender line, curl around, and then clockwise direction to the x-height line, and then curl around in a clockwise direction to the baseline.

Should we try one more? Start just below the ascender line.

Let's go up to the ascender, curl around clockwise into the x-height line.

And then again curl around clockwise down to the baseline.

Look at those number threes.

They look so good.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral three.

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

I'm going to start just below the ascender line and then I'm going to go up to the ascender line.

Then I'm going to curl around to the x-height line, and then I'm gonna curl around again down to the baseline.

Let's try that again.

So I'm gonna start just below the ascender line.

I'm gonna curl up to the ascender line, and then curl around clockwise direction into the x-height line, and I'm gonna curl around again in a clockwise direction down to the baseline.

Let's try one more.

Start just below the ascender line, curl up to the ascender line, curl around in a clockwise direction into the x-height line, and then curl around in a clockwise direction down to the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral three? Take a look at these three threes, which is the correct one? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you chose the third three, that's the correct one.

It's sitting in between the ascender line and the baseline, and it's got those two lovely curves.

For your task, I would like you to practise forming the numerals two and three.

First of all, go with the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot.

And finally complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy forming every single one of these numerals.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with forming the numerals two and three? Did you use one continuous motion to form the numeral two? Did you draw a straight line on the baseline? How about the numeral three? Did you use one continuous motion for this? And did you draw two curved lines? Did you enjoy every single one? Did you stay focused? Did you have fun? Circle your best numerals two and three, and celebrate.

For the next part of our lesson, we'll practise forming the numerals four and five.

Here it is, here's the four.

Have a close look at it.

What do you notice, what do you see? Pause the video here while you tell somebody next to you everything you can see and notice about the numeral four.

Ooh, so many things to notice.

Did you notice that it's actually starting above the x-height line? Not quite as high as the ascender line but above the x-height.

Did you notice that it has a diagonal line and then it has straight lines and those lines cross? Let's find out more about the numeral four.

The numeral four starts between the ascender line and the x-height line.

The numeral four sits comfortably on the baseline.

The numeral four has three straight lines, and one line is diagonal.

It's time to form the numeral four in the air.

I'll have a go first of all, and then it'll be your turn.

I'm going to start in between the ascender line and the x-height line and draw a diagonal line that goes, that stops in between the x-height line and the baseline.

Then I'm gonna go straight across, lift my pencil up, go to the x-height line and draw a line straight down to the baseline.

Let me show you one more time.

I'll start in between the ascender and the x-height line, diagonal line down to in between the x-height line and the baseline, straight line across.

Lift my pencil up, go to the x-height line and draw one line straight down.

And I'll make sure those two lines are crossing.

Now it's your turn to have a go at forming the numeral four.

Start in between the ascender line and the x-height line.

Draw a diagonal line down to in between the x-height line and the baseline, straight line across.

Lift your pencil up, go to the x-height line and draw a line straight down.

Let's try one more.

We'll start between the ascender line and the x-height line, diagonal line to in between the x-height line and the baseline, straight line across.

Lift your pencil up, put it on the x-height line, and a straight line down to the baseline.

Look at those numeral fours.

They're looking really, really good.

I think we can do one more, let's do one more.

One sneaky one more, let's put one more in here.

Let's go diagonal line, straight line across.

Lift our pencil up to the x-height line.

One more straight line down.

They're looking good, well done.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral four.

I'm going to start in between the ascender line and the x-height line, and I'm gonna make a diagonal line to in between the x-height line and the baseline.

Then I'm going to make a horizontal line across.

I'm going to lift my pencil off, my pen off, go to the x-height line, and then draw a line down to the baseline, making sure those two lines cross.

Let's try that again.

So I'll start in between the ascender line and the x-height line.

I'll make a diagonal line to in between the x-height line and the baseline.

I'll make it a horizontal line straight across.

Lift up my pen, go to the x-height line, and draw a line down to the baseline.

Let's try one more.

Start in between the ascender and the x-height line, diagonal across, horizontal.

Lift up my pen to the x-height line, and make a line going straight down.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral four? Have a look at these three fours on the screen.

Which is the correct formation? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you picked that first one on the left of the screen.

That's starting in the correct position, and it's making sure that it's sitting on the baseline and that the two lines cross.

Well done.

And here's the five.

Let's take a close look at it.

Hmm, what do you notice? What do you see? Tell the person next to you everything that you notice about the numeral five.

Pause the video here.

Whoa, there's a lot to notice here.

Did you notice it's starting up on the ascender line? Did you notice it's sitting down on the baseline? Did you notice that it has some straight lines and then a curved line? Let's see what else we can find out about the numeral five.

The numeral five starts on the ascender line.

The numeral five sits on the baseline.

It has two straight lines and one curved line.

I'm going to have a go at forming the numeral five in the air, I'm gonna use my finger, and then it will be your turn.

So I'm going to start on the ascender line and I'm going to make a line going backwards across the ascender line.

Then I'm gonna go straight down to the x-height line, and then I'm gonna go in a curl around in a clockwise direction down to the baseline.

Let me show you one more time.

I'll start on the ascender line, make a line backwards.

Then I'll go straight down to the x-height line, and then I'm gonna curl around in anticlockwise direction down to the baseline.

Are you ready for your turn? Let's form the numeral five together.

Start on the ascender line, make a line going backwards.

Make a line going straight down to the x-height line and then curl around in the clockwise direction down to the baseline.

Let's do one more and let's enjoy this one continuous motion that we'll be making for the numeral five.

Start at the ascender line.

Let's go back then let's go down to the x-height line, and then let's curl around in a clockwise direction.

Great job, everyone, look at all those fives.

I'm going to show you how to form the numeral five.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'm going to start on the ascender line and I'm going to draw a line, a straight line backwards.

Then I'm going to draw a straight line down to the x-height line, and then I'm going to curl forwards down and around to the baseline.

And remember, we keep our pen on the page while we are forming the numeral five.

Let's try that again, start on the ascender line.

Draw a line backwards, draw a line straight down, and then I'm gonna go forwards, curling around down to the baseline.

Let's try one more.

Start on your ascender line, go backwards.

Go straight down, and then curling around down to the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the numeral five? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you picked the numeral five in the centre.

That one has got the two straight lines, and then it's got that curved line that goes all the way down to the baseline.

For your task, I'd like you to practise forming the numerals four and five.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot.

And finally, complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy every four, enjoy every five.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with forming the numerals four and five? Did you, for the numeral four, start between the x-height line and the ascender line? Did you lift your pencil to make the cross from the x-height line down to the baseline? How about the numeral five? Did you start on the ascender line? Did you draw two straight lines and then one curved line? Circle your best four, circle your best five, and celebrate.

In our lesson, formation of numerals zero to five, we've covered the following.

The numerals zero, one, two, three, and five are made using one continuous motion.

The numerals zero, one, two, three, and five are formed without lifting your pencil.

The numeral four needs the pencil lifted to add a second line.

The numerals zero to five all sit on the baseline.

A numeral is a digit that represents a number.

Well done, everyone, for exploring how to form these numerals zero to five together.

It's been great fun being with you.

Well done for your focus and your enthusiasm.

See you at the next lesson.