Hello everyone.

I am Miss Avsel 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 letters B and P.

There are some keywords in today's lesson that I would like you to look out for.

I'd like you to listen out for them, and I want you to think about these words.

Let's go through them one at a time.

My turn.

Your turn.

Ascender.

Baseline.

Tramlines.

Descender.

Hope you can make sure that you are looking out for every time you see these words on the screen.

Every time you hear me say one of these words and hope you're thinking carefully about each of these words.

The lesson today has three parts to it.

We will begin with one of our really fun handwriting warm ups.

Next we'll be forming the lowercase letter B in print and finally forming the lowercase letter P in print.

Let's start with the warm ups.

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

Your hands and your wrists will get stronger when you exercise them.

So warming up your hands before writing will help you to improve your handwriting.

Let's have a go at the finger tap warm up.

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

I love this warm up because it exercises our fingers and because it feels so good doing this on our head, giving ourselves a little massage.

So I'm gonna start by putting my hands on top of my head and I'm gonna tap each of my fingers, starting with my little finger all the way to the thumb and I'm actually gonna tap down the side my head.

So moving each of my fingers, tapping and it feels great on my head.

It's like a lovely gentle massage.

Now I'm going to go back up to the top, and this time I'm going to tap down the back of my head.

Ah, this is feeling like a lovely way to begin our handwriting session.

Mm, really nice and now it's your turn.

Get your hands ready, place 'em on top of your head, tapping down the sides of your head.

Doesn't that feel good? I love this exercise because it sounds good.

It feels good on our head and crucially, it's strengthening our fingers.

Ready for handwriting? Fantastic.

Next we're going to have a go at the wrist shake.

This is really helpful for our wrists.

So all we're gonna do is, just gonna hold our hand down like this and we're going to shake, shake our hand, so shaking our wrist, shaking our hand, and I'm gonna do the same on the other side, just shaking my wrist and my hand.

Now it's your turn.

Are you ready? So get, choose whichever hand you want to begin with and let's just shake that wrist, other side, shake your wrist.

Nice, gentle shake.

Really fun way to do this is we could also shake upwards and this is lovely.

Have a go with me because this is like we are saying bye, just for now or we can be saying, hello.

Hello.

Well done.

Practising patterns is also a really helpful thing to do.

So practising up and down writing patterns prepares us for writing letters that go up and down.

Practising straight or zigzag writing patterns prepares us for writing letters with straight or zigzag lines and practising looped writing patterns helps prepare us for writing rounded letters.

Check for understanding.

True or false, practising loops can help to prepare us for writing rounded letters, true or false? Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done if you pick true.

Yes, it is true.

Practising loops, probably loopy loops can help to prepare us to write rounded letters, well done.

For your task, I would like you to copy and continue the pattern using your tripod grip.

Enjoy making these lovely loops and remember, don't lift your pencil when forming the pattern.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with copying and continuing the pattern? Did you use your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil on the page the whole time? Did you enjoy making these lovely loops? Let's move on to the next part of our lesson, which is forming the lowercase letter B in print.

Have a look, B's coming up any moment now.

Here it is.

Here's the B.

Let's look closely at it.

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

Pause the video here.

Did you notice that the letter B is a tall letter? It has an ascender which reaches up, all the way up to the ascender line.

Did you notice that it finishes at the baseline? Let's look at it in a bit more detail.

Letter B is a tall letter.

Part of the letter B goes above the x-height line.

The letter B has an ascender.

That's what we call that part.

Here's the x-height line and this part, reaching up above the x-height line, this is the ascender.

Ascend means to reach up.

The letter B finishes on the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Select the true statements.

The letter B has a descender.

The letter B is a small letter.

Letter B finishes on the baseline.

Letter B has an ascender.

Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done if you selected the last two statements, the letter B does finish on the baseline and letter B does have an ascender reaching up above the x-height line all the way up to the ascender line.

Well done if you selected those two.

Let's have a go now at forming the lowercase letter B in the air.

I'm gonna go first of all, use my finger, then it'll be your turn and then we can try using our fists.

Okay, let me have a go.

I'm gonna start here at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go all the way down to the baseline.

Gonna go back up, over, curl around to the baseline, and then let those two lines join together.

Let's me show you one more time.

Start at the ascender line.

Go all the way down to the baseline.

You're gonna go up, over, curl around to the baseline, and then join those two lines together.

Okay, now it's your turn.

Ready? Get those writing fingers in the air at the ascender line.

Let's go down to the baseline.

Back up to the x-height line over, curl around to the baseline, join the lines together, one more, ascender line, down to the baseline.

Go back to the x-height line over, curl around to the baseline, join them together.

(gasps) Those look great.

Well done everyone.

Now I'm going to have a go using my writing fist.

Here it goes, up it to the ascender line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, over, curl around to the baseline and join together.

Okay, it's your turn.

Get those writing fists in the air.

Let's go from the ascender line down to the baseline.

Back up to the x-height line, over, curl around, down to the baseline, join together one more, ascender line down to baseline, up to the x-height, go over, curl around, down to the baseline, join 'em together.

Those look great.

Wonderful job everybody.

I'm going to share how to form the lowercase letter B.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip and my paper is angled.

I'm going to start at the ascender line.

I'm going to go all the way down to the baseline, back up, and I'm going to go over, curl around and back down to the baseline, and then I'll finish at the baseline with those two lines joining together.

Let's try that again.

Starting at the ascender line, all the way down to the baseline, back up, over, curl around, down to the baseline and letting those two lines meet.

Let's try one more, starting at the ascender line, all the way down to the baseline, back up, over, curl around, and then down to the baseline and letting those two lines meet.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the lowercase letter B? Choose from these three.

Pause the video here while you decide.

Well done.

It was that B at the end, the one above the C.

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

For your task I'd let you to practise forming the lowercase letter B.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot and finally, complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Stay focused, enjoy every letter B, pause the video here.

How did you get on? How did it go forming the lowercase letter B? Got some questions for you.

Did you start on the ascender line? Did you go down to the baseline? Back up, go over and curl around.

Did you finish at the baseline? Did you enjoy every single letter B? Circle your best one and celebrate.

For the next part of our lesson, we'll be forming the lowercase letter P in print.

Are you ready to look out for a letter P? Here it is.

Here it comes.

The lowercase letter P is here.

Let's look closely at it.

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

Pause the video.

Did you notice that the lowercase letter P finishes at the baseline? Did you notice that part of it actually goes under the baseline? Oh, that's curious.

Let's find out some more about that.

The letter P and B, both of these are formed in a similar way.

They both go down, back up, over and they curl around.

They belong to the same letter family.

Part of the letter P goes below the baseline.

Descender refers to the part of a letter that goes below the baseline.

So here's the baseline and the part of the letter that's going down below the baseline, this part here is the descender and letter P is an example of a letter with a descender.

So descend means to go down, so part of this letter is going down below the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which letter has a descender? Choose from these three letters.

Pause the video here.

Yes, well done.

It's the letter P.

The letter P has part of that letter goes down below the baseline, it has a descender.

Let's have a go at forming lowercase letter P.

First of all, I'm gonna have a go forming it in the air, using my finger, then it'll be your turn, then we're moving on to our righting elbows.

Okay, I'm gonna start up here at the, oh here actually, I'm going to start at the x-height line and I'm gonna go down below the baseline, down to the descender line, back up to round about where I started and I'm gonna go over, curl around down to the baseline and finish joining those two lines together.

Let me show you one more time at the x-height line all the way down to the descender line, back up to the x-height, over, curl around to the baseline.

Join those two together.

Okay, it's your turn.

Get your righting fingers at the x-height line.

Let's go, all the way down to the base, to below the baseline to the descender line, back up to where we started, over, curl around to the baseline, join those together.

One more time.

Start at the x-height line.

Go all the way down to the descender line.

Back up to the x-height line, go over, curl around to the baseline, join us two lines together.

Lovely looking letter P's.

Well done everyone.

Let's have a go now with our elbows, I will go first.

I'm gonna start up here, the x-height line.

I'm gonna go down to the descender line, back up to the x-height line, over, curl around to the baseline, join those two lines together.

Your turn.

Are you ready? Get those righting elbows up.

Get that stretch happening in your body.

This feels good.

Let's go, x-height line down to the descender line.

Back up to where we started.

Let's do a nice curl.

Curl around to the baseline.

Join those together.

Lovely letter P's.

Great job, everybody.

In this video, I'm going to model how to form the lowercase letter P.

I'm holding my pen and my tripod grip.

I'm sitting comfortably, feet on the floor back against the chair.

I'm ready to go.

I'm going to start at the x-height line.

Go all the way down to the descender line.

I'm gonna go back up, curl around, back down to the baseline, and then those two lines wIll just join at the baseline.

Let's try again.

Start at the x-height line.

Go all the way down to the descender line.

I'm going to go back up, curl around, back down to the baseline, and then those two lines can meet just around the baseline.

Let's try one last one.

Start at the x-height line all the way down to the descender line.

Back up, curl around, down to the baseline and those two lines join together.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of the letter P.

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

Well done, it's the middle P is the correct one.

This is sitting in between the x-height line and the descender line, and it, is standing up nice and straight? Do you notice any other similarities between the B and the P? Have a close look.

What do you notice? What do you see? Pause the video.

Did you notice that the middle part of the letters B and P are at the x-height? They sit in between the x-height line and the baseline.

Check for understanding.

Which two lines does the middle part of the letters B and P sit between? Is it the baseline and the x-height line? Is it the baseline and the ascender line, or is it the ascender line and the x-height line? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done, it's between the baseline and the x-height line that the middle part of those two letters sits.

For your task, I would like you to practise forming the lowercase letter P.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Next, try using the starting dot and finally complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy forming every one of these lowercase letter P's.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with forming the lowercase letter P? Did you start from the x-height line and go all the way down to the descender line? Did you go back up, over, curl around, and back to the baseline? Did the two lines join together on the baseline? Did you enjoy everyone? Circle your best and celebrate.

In our lesson formation of B and P, we have covered the following.

The letter B has an ascender.

The letter P has a descender.

The letters B and P are formed by going down, back up and around.

The middle part of the letters B and P are x-height and they sit in the middle set of the tramlines.