Hello everyone.

I am Ms. Afzal, 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 all so 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 for today's lesson is, I can correctly form the second join.

Here are the keywords for our lesson.

Let's go through them.

My turn, your turn.

Join, lead out, letter string, starting point, ascender line.

Fantastic.

I heard those really loud and clear.

Let's make sure we listen out for those words.

We think about them, and we're curious about those words.

Our lesson the second join, EL, MB, AT, and TT with no lead in has three parts to it.

First of all, there's handwriting warmups.

Next, the second join, EL and MB.

And finally the second join, AT and TT.

Let's begin with warmups.

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

That's because your hand, and wrist get stronger when you exercise them.

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

Practising handwriting patterns helps us to prepare for writing and joining letters.

Take a look at these patterns on the screen.

Don't they look good? Let's have a go at forming some patterns.

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

I'm going to go up, round, and down, up, round, and down, up, round, and down, up, around, and down.

Mm that felt good.

I'm gonna go backwards because it just feels too good to stop.

So I'm just going up, around and down, up around and down.

It's your time to join in.

Ready? Let's go.

Up, around and down.

Up, around and down.

Up, around and down.

One more.

Up around and down.

Let's go back the other way.

Oh yes.

This is a very nice pattern to form.

I hope you're enjoying it.

Wonderful.

For your task, I'd like you to copy, and continue these patterns using your tripod grip.

Remember, don't lift your pencil when forming the pattern.

Focus on keeping the movement smooth and flowing.

Pause the video here while you have a go at these patterns.

It's good to see you again.

See how did you get on? Did you use your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil on the page? Was your movement smooth? Did it flow? Did it feel great? I hope so.

And now it's time to look at the second join, EL and MB.

Print and cursive are the most common forms of handwriting.

Print is when each letter is formed separately, so the letters are not joined together in any way.

Take a look at these three letters in the word, cat.

Each of them is separate.

They're not connected.

They're not joined at all.

That's print writing.

Cursive is also known as joined-up handwriting.

This involves joining the letters in a flowing manner.

So there's one of our key words.

Join, in the word join.

So when join something it means you link it together, you connect it together.

And joined-up writing joins the letters in a nice flowing manner as we can see with those three letters in the word, cat.

Here are some more examples of joins.

Cursive handwriting involves joining letters together without lifting your pencil.

How the letters are connected depends on which letter is joining to which letter.

Cursive letter joins refer to how letters connect together, and learning letter joins will improve your cursive handwriting skills, allowing for a smooth flow of handwriting.

It's really gonna feel, and look good.

The first join we learnt is shown below.

Have a look at the way these letters are joined together.

What do you notice about them? Can you remember how we do this first join? Here's Aisha to remind us.

"The first join is from the baseline to the x-height line." Thank you, Aisha.

Like so.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct first join.

Look at these NAs.

I'm not sure about two of them, but one of them is definitely joined correctly.

Pause the video while you decide which one that is.

Well done if you selected the one in the middle.

This has got a join going from the baseline to the x-height line.

Let's look closely at these examples of our second join.

What do you notice? What do you see? Pause the video, and tell someone nearby, Hmm, did you notice that the L has a lead out? How about the B? Did you notice at the end of that B there is a lead out at the baseline? And did you notice that these two letters are joined together? Now let's look at our keyword.

So we've got the word, joined there.

So we know joined means to connect, to link together, and we've got lead out.

So lead out is a special line that goes at the end of the letter, and it leads us out of that letter so it really does exactly what it says.

It takes us out of that, it's an extra little line.

And what a lead out does is it connects us to the next letter.

So that's what why the lead out is so important when we do joined-up handwriting.

What do you notice about how these letters are joined? Let's take another look at them.

I wonder if you noticed these things? The last letter has a lead out, that one.

Letter E has a starting point in the middle of the baseline, and the x-height line.

So starting point means where the letter begins, where it starts, and it's that exact point, that place where it starts.

And letter M has a starting point on the x-height line.

The second join starts at the baseline, and it goes up to the ascender line.

Another key word of ours there.

Ascender line is the highest of the lines in our tramlines.

So these series of lines we can see there.

These are the tramlines, and the ascender line is the highest one.

So letters with ascenders reach up to the ascender line.

And you don't lift your pencil when forming the joins.

We just keep our pencil on the page as we join.

Here's Jun.

"The second join is from the baseline to the ascender line." Thank you, Jun.

There it is.

That's our join.

Okay.

It's time for us to have some fun.

I'm gonna have a go at forming the joins EL and MB in the air, and then it will be your turn.

I'm gonna begin at my starting point, remember that keyword.

And my starting point for the E is in-between the x-height line, and the baseline.

Here I go.

I'm gonna form my letter E.

I'm going around anti-clockwise.

And here's my join from the baseline to the ascender line, well done.

And I finished my L with a, well done, a lead out.

Amazing.

I'll show you one more time.

Here's my E.

Here's my join.

Baseline to the ascender line.

Finish with a lead out.

Okay, it's your turn, EL.

Ready.

Get your pen.

So in position, in-between the x-height line, and the baseline, let's form the letter E.

We'll go anticlockwise.

Here's our join.

Baseline all the way up to the ascender line.

Back down to the baseline.

Finish with the lead out.

One more.

Form your E.

Here's the join.

Baseline to the ascender line! Form the letter L, lead out, oh yes.

I like it.

MB, my turn.

I am gonna begin this time, and my starting point is at x-height line.

I'm going form my letter M, and then to join, I'm going from the baseline up to the ascender line, and form my letter B.

And I'll finish with a lead out at the baseline.

And now it's your turn.

Are you ready? At the x-height line let's begin.

Form your letter M.

And here's the join from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line.

Let's form our letter B.

Finish with a lead out at the baseline.

One more.

At the starting point at the x-height line, form the M.

And then here's a join.

Baseline up to the ascender line.

Form the letter B.

And there's that really nice lead out at the baseline.

Oh yes, like those MBs.

I'm gonna show you how to form the second join, EL.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip, and I'll say to myself, ready, line, go, and put my pen in the starting position, which is in the middle of the x-height line, and the baseline.

And I'll form my letter E.

And here's my join from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line.

And there's my letter L and a lead out.

I'll try that again.

Starting place, form the letter E.

Here's the join from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line.

Form my letter L, lead out.

One more.

E, join letter L, and lead out.

I'm going to show you how to form the second join, MB.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'll say to myself, ready, line, go.

And I'll begin performing my letter M.

And to join, I'll go from the baseline, all the way up to the ascender line.

And now I'll form a letter B, and I'll finish with a lead out at the baseline.

Let's try that again.

Start at the x-height line, form my letter M.

Here's the join from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line.

Here's my letter B.

And I'll finish it with a lead out at the baseline.

Let's try one more.

M.

Here's my join from the baseline up to the ascender line.

Here's the B, and there's the lead out.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join.

Which of these ELs is joined correctly? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected the one above the C, this has got the join going correctly from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line, and the L has a lead out at the baseline.

Select the correct join between the M and the B.

Pause the video while you decide which one it is.

Well done if you selected the MB in the middle, that has got the join going from the baseline all the way up to the ascender line, and the B has a lead out at the baseline.

For your task, I'd like you to practise the second join, EL.

First of all, go over the grey samples.

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

After that, I'd like you to practise the second, MB.

Go over the grey examples, try using the starting dot, and finally complete two lines independently, enthusiastically with great focus on your tramlines.

Pause the video while you have a go at this task.

It's great to see you again.

I am wondering about a few things.

Did you use the correct starting point? It's different for the E and for the M.

Did you find that correct starting point for each letter? Did you join from the baseline all the the way up to the ascender line? Did you keep your pencil on the page? Did you rejoin? Circle your best one, and celebrate.

And now it's time to look at the second join, AT and TT.

Here they are.

Here are our joins.

Take a look at them closely.

What do you see? What do you notice? Tell someone nearby.

And pause the video here.

Okay, did you notice the cross at the x-height line for the AT? There's a cross just across that letter T.

And for the TT, there's one line going across both of those letter T's.

Did you notice that the letter T, the last letter T, has a lead out? The two letters are joined together.

Remember, they've joined, they connect, they link together.

So what do you notice about how these letters are joined? Did you notice these things? The letter A has a starting point on the x-height line.

Letter T has a starting point between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

It's a little bit higher.

The second join starts at the baseline, and it goes up to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line for the letter T.

And you only add the cross for the letter T after you've finished the letter string.

So that's one of our key words, letter string.

So this string is a pair of letters, or a group of letters that appear together.

So often you might get letters A and T together in the word, or you might get T and T together in the word.

And that is a string of letters, so they're appearing together.

When two letter T's are joining, one cross can go across both letters, so we don't need to do one cross, and then another cross, we can just do one line all the way across that.

That sounds like that's gonna be fun.

Here's Jun with a reminder.

"The second join for the letter T is from the baseline to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line." Thank you Jun.

There it is.

There's our join.

It's time for us to form these joins in the air.

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

Okay, I'm gonna begin.

My starting point for the A in AT is at the x-height line, and I'm going to go anticlockwise to form my letter A.

And then here's my join.

I'm gonna go from a baseline to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Now I'm gonna form a letter T.

There's a lead out.

Take my pencil off, and then I'm gonna cross the T.

It's your turn for AT.

Are you ready? Let's begin.

Our starting point is at the x-height line.

Let's go letter, A, anti-clockwise.

And then here's our join from the baseline to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Form our T.

But we don't do the cross just yet.

There's our lead out.

Then we take our pencil off, and cross the T.

Should we do one more? Letter A.

Here's our join, baseline to in-between x-height line, and ascender line form the T.

Lead out, pencil off, cross the T.

Oh, yes I like those AT's.

And now I'm going to have a go at forming the letter string TT.

I'm going to begin.

My starting point is a bit higher this time.

It's in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Here we go.

Forming the letter T.

And to join, I'm gonna go from the baseline to that same place where I was before, in-between the x-height line and the ascender line.

For my next letter T.

Lead out, pencil off, and then I'm gonna do one cross that goes across both T's.

It's your turn.

Are you ready? In-between the x-height line, and the ascender line is our starting point.

Let's go.

Form the first T.

Here's our join, baseline to up in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Form our second T.

Lead out, pencil off.

One line goes across both Ts at the x-height line.

Let's do another one.

Ready? From our starting point, let's go.

Form the letter T, first one.

Here's our join.

Back up to that starting place.

Form our next T.

Lead out, pencil off.

And one line across those T's.

Oh yes, I like them.

I'm going to show you how to form the second join, AT.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'll say to myself, ready, line, go.

And I'll begin at the x-height line to form my letter A.

Go around anti-clockwise, form the A.

And then to join, I'll go from the baseline to in-between the x-height line and the ascender line.

I'll form my letter T.

There's a lead out.

Then I go back, and cross the T.

I'll try again.

Ready, line, go.

Here's the A, anticlockwise.

Here's the join.

I go up to in-between those two lines.

Here's the T.

Lead out, cross the T.

One more.

Here's the A, anticlockwise.

Here's the join going from the baseline up to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Here's the T.

Lead out, cross the T.

I'm going to show you how to form the second join, TT.

I'm sitting comfortably.

My pen is in the tripod grip.

I'll say to myself, ready, line, go.

I'll put my pen at the starting position, which is in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line, and I'll form the T.

And to join, I'll go from the baseline up to the same point where I started x-height line, and ascender line.

Form the next T.

Lead out.

Take my pen off, and then I'll make a cross.

One line across both T's at the x-height line.

Let's try that again.

Starting position is my first T, joining.

And then up to that same position for the next T, there's the lead out, and one cross goes across both of the T's at the x-height line.

Ready, line, go.

First T.

There's my join.

There's my second T.

Lead out, cross the Ts.

Check for understanding.

Select the correct join.

Which of these three ATS is joined correctly? Look closely.

Pause the video while you decide which one it is.

Well done if you selected the AT above the C.

That one has got the join going from the baseline up to the starting point of the T, which is in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

Select the correct join between the T and the T.

Pause the video while you decide which one is correct.

Well done if you selected the one in the middle.

That has got the correct starting point of in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line.

For your task, I'd like to practise the second join, AT.

First of all, go over the grey examples.

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

After that, I'd like you to practise the second join, TT.

Go over the grey examples, try using the starting dot, and finally complete two lines independently with focus, with flow, with smoothness on your tramlines.

Pause the video here and I'll see you when you're finished.

Okay, it's good to be back together again.

I am wondering about a few things.

Did you use the correct starting point, which is different for the A, and for the T? Did you join from the baseline between the x-height line, and the ascender line? Did you add the cross for the letter T after completing the letter string? I hope so.

Circle your best join and celebrate.

In our lesson, the second join, EL, MB, AT, and TT with no lead in, we have covered the following.

The letters are formed by following the correct starting point and direction.

The second join goes from the baseline to the ascender line when joining a tall letter.

The second join goes from the baseline to in-between the x-height line, and the ascender line, when joining to the letter T.

You do not lift your pencil when forming the join.

The cross for the letter T is added once the letter string is complete.

And when two letter Ts are together, one cross can go across both.

Wow.

We have covered so much in today's lesson.

I'm really proud of you.

I hope you're feeling proud of yourselves having a go at this second join, and I'm really excited to see you for the next lesson.

Bye for now.