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

I'm so excited to be here, and I hope you're excited to learn how to form some new letters today.

Let's get started.

Let's have fun.

The outcome for today's lesson, I can form the letters u, y, and j, and this comes from the unit of work writing lowercase letters in print.

We have some key words in today's lesson, which I would really like us all to look out for and listen out for during our lesson.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Tripod grip.

X-height letter.

Ascenders.

Baseline.

Descenders.

Let's make sure that we listen out for these letters and that we look out for them during this lesson.

These are our key words.

Today's lesson is made up of four parts.

In the first part of our lesson, formation of u, y, and j, we'll be doing some handwriting warmup.

It's always so much fun and it's so good for us to get our hands warm and ready for writing.

Next, we're going to be forming the lowercase letter u in print.

After that, we'll be forming the lowercase letter y in print.

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

Are you ready? Shall we get started with our handwriting warmup? Can you remember why it's important to warm up your hands before handwriting? It's because our hands and our wrists get stronger when we exercise them, just like any other muscle in your body.

So making your hands and wrist stronger will help you to hold your pencil using your tripod grip.

Let's start with the hand squeeze warm-up.

I'll do it and then you have a go.

So first of all, with the hand squeeze, I'm gonna just put my hand up, and I'm gonna squeeze my hand and then open it.

Squeeze and open, squeeze really tight and open.

I'm try the other hand, squeeze and open, squeeze and open, squeeze and open.

I'm gonna try both together.

Squeeze and open.

Squeeze and open, squeeze and open.

Your turn.

Are you ready? Take one hand, first of all, I don't mind which hand you wanna choose, and squeeze it tight, almost like you've got something hidden inside your hand and then you gotta open and show everybody what you've got.

Squeeze and open.

Squeeze and open.

Try the other hand now.

Squeeze and open.

Squeeze and open.

And both hands together.

Ready? Squeeze and open.

Squeeze and open.

Squeeze and open.

Oh, that was fun.

I like that one.

Next, let's have a go at the window wipers.

For this, we are going to put our hands up as if they were window wipers on a car to stop the rain coming all across the windscreen, and we're gonna shift from one side to the other, wiping that windscreen.

Let's see if we can do it with both hands.

This is me having a go.

And now it's your turn.

Are you ready? Put your hands up.

And we're gonna wipe from one side to the other.

Get all that rain off of the windscreen.

Oh, this is fun, and the windscreen's gonna be nice and clear.

Wonderful.

Well done.

Now our hands and wrists are all set.

Well done, and now our hands and our wrists are all warmed up, ready for some handwriting.

Practising writing patterns helps us to prepare for writing letters.

Can you see these patterns in front of you? The first one is going up and down, up and down, up and down.

The next one is Zig-zagging across.

Oh, I like that.

And the third pattern is going down and up, down and up, down and up, down and up.

I'm going to make the handwriting pattern in the air with my finger, first of all, and then it will be your turn.

Ready? Let me show you.

Down and up, down and up, down and up, down and up.

Let me try it one more time.

Down and up, down and up, down and up.

Now it's your turn.

Ready? Get your finger in the air and let's go down and up, down and up, down and up.

Oh, that's quite nice and fun, and I like the way it's flowing.

One more time.

Oh, lovely.

Well done.

Let's try this pattern this time with our fist.

So I'm gonna have a go first, let me show you.

I'm going down and up, down and up.

Your turn.

With your fist, let's go down and up, down and up, down and up.

Well done.

I love those patterns.

You've done a great job.

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

So holding your pencil in your tripod grip, starting at the top and then going down and up, down and up, down and up.

And keeping your pencil on the page all the way as you go across your page.

Pause the video now.

How did you get on with copying and continuing the pattern using your tripod grip? Did you hold the pencil in your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil on the page the whole time as you were going across? Did you use your tall finger, your thumb, your pointing finger, and were your fingers slightly bent? Well done.

I think you did a great job.

Let's move on to the next part of our lesson, forming the lowercase letter u in print.

This is exciting, getting onto the letters.

Let's take a close look at this letter u.

I wonder what do you see? What do you notice as you look so closely, really looking at this letter u? What can you see? I'd like you to turn to somebody that's sitting near you and share with them, what is it that you can see.

What do you notice about this letter u? It starts on the x-height line.

Did you notice that it comes down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, and it finishes with a flick? Got a lovely little flick at the bottom.

Let's find out a little bit more about the letter u.

The letter u is an x-height letter.

It goes up to the x-height line.

Letter u is a small letter.

It does not have an ascender, so it's not one of those letters that reaches up above the x-height line all the way up to the ascender line, and the letter u finishes with a flick.

Check for understanding.

Select the statements which are true.

A: the letter u is an X-height letter.

B: the letter u is a tall letter.

C: the letter u finishes with a flick.

D: The letter u has an ascender.

Which statements are true? Pause the video now.

Well done! These are the two true statements about the letter u.

The letter u is an x-height letter and the letter u finishes with a flick.

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

I'm going to form the letter u in the air, first of all, with my finger, and then it will be your turn.

So let me show you how I form the lowercase letter u.

I start on the x-height line.

Well, it's an imaginary x-height line for me.

I go down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, down, and flick.

Let me show you again.

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

Now it's your turn.

Are you ready? Should we do it together? Starting on the x-height line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, down, and flick.

One more.

Down, back up, down to the baseline, and that lovely flick.

I'm gonna try the same thing using my fist now.

Are you ready to watch? Start on the x-height, down, back up to the x-height, down, and flick.

One more.

Now it's your turn.

With your fist, holding up your fist, let's go down, back up to the x-height line, down, and flick.

One more.

Well done, those us look fantastic.

You've done a really, really great job at forming the letter u.

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

I'm sitting up with my feet flat on the floor, my back against the back of the chair, my hand is resting on the table, my paper is tilted, and my other hand is holding the paper steady.

Let's begin.

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

Let me come all the way down to the baseline, across, back up to the x-height line, all the way down to the baseline, and flick.

Let me try another u.

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

And one more.

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

Check for understanding.

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

Well done.

The correct formation of the letter u is the one above the C.

This letter u starts at the x-height line, goes down to the baseline, up again to the x-height line, down to the baseline, and flick.

Well done.

That's the correct formation of the letter u.

For your task, we'll be practising forming the lowercase letter u.

First of all, I would like to ask you to go over the grey examples.

So starting at the x-height line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, down, and flick.

After you've done the grey examples, try using the starting dot.

So placing your pencil on the starting dot, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, down, and flick.

And then for your third activity, I'd like to ask you to complete two lines of us independently on your tramlines.

Remember to hold your pencil in your tripod position, sitting up in that really helpful posture of feet on the ground and having your back against the back of your chair.

Enjoy forming the letter U.

Pause the video here.

How did you get on with practising forming the letter u? Did you remember all these key things of starting on the x-height line, going all the way down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line? Did you finish with a flick? Did you keep your pencil on the paper the whole way through forming those letter us? Have a look at all of the us on your page and circle which is the best one.

Which one have you formed the best? Draw a circle around it and celebrate.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Give yourself a little clap or a cheer.

Well done.

Now we're going to move on to forming the lowercase letter y in print.

Are you ready? Let's go.

Let's take a close look at this letter y.

What can you see if you are looking really closely? What do you notice about this letter y? About how it's formed, which lines it's sitting on.

What can you see? Turn to somebody nearby and share with them what you notice.

Pause the video here.

So many things to notice with this letter y.

Did you see that it starts at the x-height line and then it goes down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, and down to the baseline, similar to the letter u, but then what it does is it falls below the baseline and then it curls up on the line below, which we call the descender line.

I wonder if you noticed all of those things.

Let's find out some more about the lowercase letter y.

The letter y is formed in a similar way to the letter u, however, part of the letter y goes below the baseline.

The letter y curls up at the descender line.

That's the line right at the bottom.

Descender refers to the part of a letter that goes below the baseline, so it's going down underneath the baseline.

That's a descender.

The letter y is an example of a letter with a descender, descending down, going down below the baseline.

Check for understanding.

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

Well done.

It was the letter above the B that has the descender.

The letter y has the descender, which is going down below the baseline.

Well done for noticing that.

Let's have a go at forming the letter y in the air.

I'll do it first and then you have a go.

So I'm going to form the letter y starting on the x-height line down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, all the way down then, below the baseline, down to the descender line, and curl up.

Let me try again.

I'm going to start at the x-height line, down to the baseline, up to the x-height line, all the way down past the baseline, and curl up.

Your turn.

Are you ready? Start at the x-height, back up to the x-height, all the way down past the baseline, down to the descender line, and curl up.

One more time.

X-height, back up to the x-height, down, down, down, down, down, and curl up.

That was fun.

Shall we try the same thing now with elbows? So let me go first.

I will show you with my elbow.

Ready? X-height, back up to x-height, all the way down, and curl up.

Let me try another one.

X-height, back up to the x-height, and then down, down, down, down, down to the descender line, and curl up.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Get your elbow ready.

Let's go from the x-height line, down, back up to the x-height line, all the way down, down, down to the descender line, and curl up.

One more.

X-height line, back up to the x-height line, down, down, down, down, down to the descender line, and curl up.

Well done.

Look at those lovely letter ys in the air.

Great job, everybody.

<v ->Now I'm going to model for you</v> how to form the letter y on the tramlines.

I'm sitting up with my feet flat on the floor, my back is against the back rest, I've got my pen in my tripod position, and my paper is slightly tilted.

First of all, I'm going to place my pen.

First of all, I'm going to place my pen on the x-height line.

I'm going to come all the way down to the baseline, across, back up to the x-height line, and then I'm gonna go all the way down to the descender line and curl up.

Let's try that again.

I'm going to start on the x-height line, down to the baseline, across, back up to the x-height line, all the way down to the descender line 'cause this letter is a descender, and curl up.

Let's try one more Y.

X-height line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, all the way down to the descender line, and curl up.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct formation of y.

Which of these three ys has the correct formation? Pause the video here.

Well done.

The correct formation of the letter y was in the third image, above the C.

We can see there that it starts at the x-height line, it goes down, back up to the x-height line, and it goes all the way down past the baseline to the descender line, and then it curls up.

Well done.

That's the correct formation on letter y.

Let's have a go at our next task, where we'll practise forming the lowercase letter y.

First of all, I'd like you to go over the grey examples of the letter y.

Remember, starting at the x-height line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, and then all the way down to the descender line, and curl up.

After that, I'd like you to try using the starting dot to draw your letter ys.

And finally, have a go at completing two lines of ys independently on your tramlines.

How did you get on with forming the lowercase letter y? Did you start on the x-height line? Did you go all the way down to the descender line? And did you finish with a curl up? Circle the best of your letter ys and celebrate.

Give yourself a little smile or a pat on the back or a little cheer.

Well done.

You've done some great handwriting.

We're now onto the final part of our lesson today, and we'll be forming the lowercase letter j in print.

Let's take a close look at this letter j.

I'm curious, what is it that you can see as you look at this letter j? What do you notice about it? What do you see? Have a talk to somebody nearby and share with them.

Pause the video now.

So many things to notice about the letter j.

Did you notice that it starts at the x-height line, that it goes all the way down past the baseline, all the way down to the descender line, and it curls up at the descender line? And did you notice that dot at the top? What else can we discover about the lowercase letter j? Let's have a look.

It starts on the x-height line.

It has a descender.

Remember the descender that goes down below the baseline, down to the descender line? And then, it has a curl up at the descender line, and a dot at the top.

Check for understanding.

Select the true statements.

The letter j has an ascender.

The letter j has a dot at the top.

The letter j has a descender.

The letter j starts on the baseline.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

The letter J has a dot at the top and the letter J has a descender.

Goes down below the baseline, all the way down to the descender line.

Let's have a go at forming the letter j in the air.

I'll do it and then it will be your turn.

I'm gonna start with my finger, and I'm going to start on the x-height line.

I'm gonna go down, down, down, down, down past the baseline to the descender line and curl up, like we did with the letter y, and then a dot at the top.

Let me show you that again.

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

I'm gonna go all the way down to the descender line, curl up, take my finger off, and then put it back on to dot the j at the top.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? Get your fingers ready in the air.

Let's go, start on the x-height line, down, down, down, down to the descender line, curl up, take your finger off, and dot at the top.

Let's try one more.

Start at the x-height line, down to the descender line, curl up, pencil off, dot at the top.

Oh my goodness, these look lovely, beautiful js.

Let's try with our fist now.

Let me go first.

I'm going to start at the x-height line, all the way down to the descender line, curl up, off, and dot the top.

It's your turn with your fist.

Are you ready? Down to the descender line, curl up, and dot at the top.

What fun, beautiful js.

Well done, everybody.

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.

Which is the correct formation of the lowercase letter j? Take a look at these three js that you can see before you, which is the correct formation? Pause the video here.

Well done.

It was the first of these three letter js that is the correct one.

We can see it starts on the x-height line.

It goes all the way down past the baseline to the descender line, curls up, and then it has that lovely dot at the top.

Well done.

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

First of all, go over the grey examples.

Start at the x-height line, go all the way down to the descender line, curl up, take your pencil off the page, and then go back up to the top to put that dot on.

After you've finished the grey examples, try using the starting dots to write some more js.

Start at the x-height line, go all the way down to the descender line, curl up, and then dot at the top.

And when you finish those, complete two lines of js independently on your tramlines.

Have fun.

How did you get on with practising forming the lowercase letter j? I wonder, did you start on the x-height line? Did you go all the way down to the descender line, curling up? And then, did you remember that dot at the top? Well done, everybody.

I'm sure you've done a terrific job.

Have a look at all of the js and circle your best one, and then have a little celebration, a little cheer, a clap, a pat on your back.

Well done, everyone.

In today's lesson, a formation of u, y and j, we have had a look at all three of these fantastic letters.

We found out that the letter u is an x-height letter and it finishes with a click.

We learned that the descender is a part of the letter that goes below the baseline.

The letters j and y have a descender.

The letter J has a dot at the top.

The letters u, y, and j all start on the x-height line.

Well done, everyone.

You have done such a fantastic job of learning these three letters.

I can't wait to see you for the next lesson.

Bye for now.