Hello, I'm Miss Afsal, and I'm here to share some more handwriting with you today.

I'm really excited to introduce some new letters, and I hope we're gonna have lots of fun together.

Let's begin.

The outcome of today's lesson is I can form the letters h and h, and this comes from the unit writing lowercase letters in print.

Let's get started.

There are some key words in today's lesson that I would love you to look out for and to listen out for.

Let's do my turn, your turn with these keywords.

Tall letters.

Ascenders.

Tramlines.

Let's make sure we look for these letters and we listen for these letters throughout our lesson today.

Today's lesson has three sections.

In the first section, we will be doing our handwriting warmup, getting our hands, getting our wrists all ready for writing.

Then we're going to be forming the lowercase letter h in print.

And finally, we'll be forming the lowercase letter k in print.

Are we ready to get started with our handwriting warmup? So it's important that we warm up our hands and our wrist muscles before we start to write.

Your hands and your wrists get stronger when you exercise them, just like if you were to exercise any part of your body.

Doing a workout with your arms is gonna make your arms stronger, but today, we're focusing on hands and wrists.

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

Let's start with the finger pull warmup.

I'm going to have a go first, I'll show you, and then it will be your turn.

For my finger pulls, I'm going to start with one hand.

I'm choosing this hand to begin with, and I'm gonna pull, first of all, my thumb and then my pointing finger, and then my middle finger, my next finger, and my little finger.

I'm gonna try it on the other hand, I'm gonna be pulling my thumb, pointing finger, middle finger, next finger, and my little finger.

Now it's your turn.

Are you ready? Now it's your turn.

Choose which hand you'd like to begin with.

I'm choosing this hand and let's go.

Let's pull thumb, pull the pointing finger, pull the middle finger, pull your next finger, pull your little finger.

Switch hands, and let's pull again.

Thumb, pointing finger, middle finger, next finger, little finger.

Oh, well done.

Give your hands a little shake.

That feels great.

Next, let's have a go at rolling our wrists.

So I'm gonna put my hand up like this so that my hand is hanging down, and I'm gonna be rolling my wrist like this.

What you could imagine is that you are making something really yummy.

What do you like eating? Just choose your favourite thing that you like eating or cooking, and imagine that you're mixing it up.

Maybe you're mixing up some cake mixture, oh yummy, or maybe you're stirring some soup.

Delicious.

Let's go the other direction.

That's fun.

Okay, I'm gonna do it with my other hand now.

I'm gonna be stirring the soup in one direction, and then I'm stirring this delicious soup in the other direction.

Okay, it's your turn.

Choose the hand you're going to begin with.

Let's go.

Let's stir.

Let's mix whatever it is you like eating.

Whatever you think is so yummy to cook.

Have a go at stirring.

Change direction.

Can you smell the delicious smells from this food? Let's go switch hands.

More stirring, more mixing.

Wonderful job, everybody.

Give your hands a little shake to finish.

Fantastic.

Practising writing patterns helps us to prepare for writing letters.

Have a look at these patterns on the screen.

We've got the first one, which is going up and down, up and down, up and down, what fun.

Next one is zigzagging across, and the last one is making these lovely loops.

Up and around, up and around, up and around.

Lovely, lovely patterns.

Check for understanding.

True or false: practising writing patterns does not prepare us for writing letters.

Is that true or false? Pause the video here.

That was false, because we know that actually practising handwriting patterns does prepare us for writing letters.

Well done.

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

So starting at the bottom, you're going to go up.

So starting at the bottom, you're going to go up with your pencil, back down, looping back up, and then back down, up, and down.

Have fun.

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 using your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil in the tripod grip the whole time? Did you keep your pencil on the page all the while that you were making this pattern? And did you have fun? For the next part of our lesson, we'll be forming the lowercase letter h in print.

Oh, can you see the letter h has appeared in the middle of our screen? Have a close look.

What can you see? Turn to the person next to you and share with them everything that you can see, everything that you notice about this lowercase letter h.

Pause the video here.

What did you notice? Did you notice that this letter h is a tall letter? It has an ascender.

Remember we talked about those, ascenders that reach all the way up to the ascender line? Did you notice that it has a flick at the bottom? Can you see that letter h has appeared on the centre of our screen? Take a close look.

What can you see? What can you see and what can you notice about this letter h? Pause the video here and turn to someone nearby and tell them everything you can see.

Did you notice that letter h is a tall letter? It has an ascender that reaches up to the ascender line.

Did you notice that it has a flick at the bottom? Let's find out a little more about the letter h.

Letter h is a tall letter.

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

The letter h has an ascender.

That's the part of the letter that's going above the x-height line, all the way up to the ascender line.

The letter h finishes with a flick.

Check for understanding.

Select the two true statements.

Letter h is a tall letter.

Letter h is a small letter.

Letter h has a dot at the top, letter h has an ascender.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

The letter h is a tall letter and the letter h has an ascender.

Let's have a go at forming the letter h.

First of all, I'm going to have a go at forming the letter h in the air using my finger.

Then it will be your turn, and then we're gonna have a go using our elbow.

That will be fun.

I'm going to start my letter h all the way up here at the ascender line.

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

Let me show you again.

I'm starting all the way up here at ascender line.

I'm going down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Let me show you one last time.

Ascender line, down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

It's your turn.

Take your finger, get yourself ready at the ascender line.

Let's go.

We're going all the way down to the baseline.

We're going up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Let's try again.

Ascender line, down, down, down, down, down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

One more look, let's go.

Ready? Down from the ascender to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Those hs look wonderful.

You've done a great job.

Let's have a go with our elbow now.

Oh my goodness, this is a big stretch.

I'm starting all up here at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Lovely.

Let me try again.

Ascender line, down to the baseline, to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

It's your turn.

Get those writing elbows ready.

Get 'em up high.

This is a great stretch for your body as well.

It's wonderful.

Let's go.

Down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Let's try one more because it's so much fun.

Let's just keep going.

X-height line.

Sorry.

Let's do one more, ascender line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Wonderful job, everybody, and what great fun and what a great stretch for our body.

I'm going to model how to form the lowercase letter h.

I'm holding my pen in the tripod grip.

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

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

Let's try that again.

Start at the ascender line, all the way down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

One more, ascender line, down to the baseline, back up, over, down, and flick.

Check for understanding.

Which is the correct formation of the lowercase letter h? Is it the h above the A, B, or C? Pause the video here.

Well done.

If you selected B, that's the correct formation of the lowercase letter h.

Starting up at the ascender line, it's going all the way down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

Well done.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Start at the ascender line, go all the way down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

For the next part of your activity, try using the starting dot.

From that starting dot, it's all the way down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, over, down, and flick.

And for the last part of your activity, complete two lines independently on your tramlines.

Enjoy forming the lowercase letter h.

Have fun, everyone.

Pause the video here.

Well done, everyone.

Well done for forming the lowercase letter h, for practising your hs.

Well, let's just check, did you start on the ascender line? Did you go down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line and over? And did you finish at the baseline with a flick? Well done, well done if you did all of those things, well done for doing your best.

Speaking of the best, circle your best letter h, and celebrate, give yourself a pat on the back.

Very well deserved.

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

Let's get started.

Can you see letter k has appeared on our screen? Take a close look.

What can you see? What can you notice about this lowercase letter k? Pause the video here and tell someone nearby everything you notice about this letter.

Did you notice that it's a tall letter, that it has an ascender that reaches up above the x-height line all the way up to the ascender line? Did you notice that flick at the bottom? Let's find out some more about the letter k.

Letter k is a tall letter.

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

It is an ascender, the part of the letter that goes above the x-height line, that's the ascender.

Letter k finishes with a flick.

Check for understanding.

Which letter has an ascender? Is it the letter you can see above the A, the B, or the C? Pause the video here.

Well done.

It was the letter k that has the ascender.

That ascender is going up above the x-height line and it's reaching up to the ascender line.

Let's have a go at forming the lowercase letter k.

First of all, I will have a go forming the letter k with my finger, and then you can have a go, and then we can try with our fist as well.

Are you ready? I'm going to begin all the way up at the top here at the ascender line.

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

I'm gonna go back up and I'm gonna form a loop that touches the x-height line, and then I'm going to do a small line down to the baseline, and finish with a flick.

Let me show you again.

Start at the ascender line, go all the way down to the baseline, back up, form a loop that touches the x-height line, and then a small line and a flick.

One more time from the ascender line, I'm going all the way down to the baseline, back up, a loop, and then a small line and a flick.

Now it's your turn.

Are you ready? Let's start to ascender line.

Let's go together all the way down to the baseline, up a little way, and then let's form a loop that touches the x-height line, and then a small line down to the baseline and flick.

One more time, ascender line, down to the baseline, back up, a little bit of a loop, and then small line and a flick.

Well done, everybody.

I'm gonna show you now using my fist.

I'm gonna start at the ascender line.

I'm gonna go down to the baseline, back up, make a loop that touches the x-height line, and then a small line to the baseline and a flick.

Again, the ascender, baseline, back up, loop, small line and flick.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Get your fist ready.

Let's go from the ascender to the baseline, back up, make a loop, and a small line and a flick.

One more time just for fun, just for good luck.

Let's go.

Ascender, down to the baseline, back up, make a loop that touches the x-height line, small line to the baseline, and flick.

Well done, everyone.

Those are beautiful letter ks.

I'm going to model how to form the letter j on the tramlines.

I'm sitting up comfortably with my feet flat on the floor.

My back is against the back of the chair.

I'm holding the pen in my tripod grip, and my page is slightly tilted so it's comfortable and I'm holding it steady with my other hand.

Let's get started.

The j begins on the x-height line.

It goes down, down, down, down to the descender line, and then it curls up, and then we take our pen off, place it back on for the dot.

Let's try another j.

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

This letter is a descender.

Curl up, pen off, and back on for the dot.

One more j.

Start at the x-height line, all the way down to the descender line, curl up, pen off, and back on for the dot.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of k.

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

Well done.

The correct formation of letter k is the one we can see above the A.

It's starting at the ascender line, going all the way down to the baseline, there's a loop that touches the x-height line, and then a small line down to the baseline, and that lovely flick, well done.

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

There's three sections to this task.

For the first activity, I'd like you to go over the grey examples of the letter k.

Start at the ascender line, go all the way down to the baseline, form a loop that touches the x-height line, small line down to the baseline, and flick.

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

Have fun, everyone.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with practising forming the lowercase letter k? Did you start from the ascender line and go down to the baseline? Did you go back up a little and then make a loop? Did you make a small line down to the baseline and finish with a flick? Circle your best letter k, and celebrate.

You've done a fantastic job.

Well done, everybody.

In today's lesson, formation of letter h and k, we have covered the following: letters h and k are in the same letter family.

They both go down, back up, over, and they finish with a flick.

The letters h and k are tall letters.

Letters h and k have ascenders.