Hi, everybody, it's Ms. Gardner, and welcome to today's handwriting lesson.

In today's lesson, we're going to continue practising cursive writing in the letter strings of two different suffixes.

I'm really looking forward to today's lesson, so thank you so much for joining, and let's get started.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to correctly form words using the suffixes -y and -ly.

Let's start by looking at the key words.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Suffix.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word.

Join.

This is how the letters are connected together.

Letter string.

This is a group of letters that are written together in a word.

Lead in.

The stroke or line that guides us into starting a letter.

Lead out.

The stroke or line that guides us to smoothly finish a letter.

So there are three sections of our lesson today, and the first we'll be completing a handwriting warmup, then we'll be writing the suffix -y, and then we'll be writing the suffix -ly.

Let's start with our warmup.

Before we start, what are these pictures reminding you to do when it comes to handwriting? Pause the video now.

So, let's go through it.

So the first picture is reminding us to sit on a chair and at a table.

It's to remind us to have our feet flat on the floor with our back against the chair.

Then our next picture it is reminding us to angle your paper correctly.

You don't want it completely straight, you want it at a slight tilt, depending on whether you are left or right-handed.

And remembering that your non-writing hand, the hand that has not got the pencil in, is supporting you.

So it's holding the paper down so that it doesn't float everywhere.

And then the third picture is reminding us to hold your pencil in the tripod grip when you're writing.

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

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

So warming up your hands before writing will really help to improve your writing and to help you keep on writing in cursive handwriting for longer time.

So, let's start with our handwriting warmup.

Let's have a go at the finger tap warmup.

I'm going to show you how to do it first and then you're gonna have a go too.

I love this warmup because not only does it warm up our fingers, but it also feels a bit like a head massage, so that's really nice.

So, I'm gonna start by putting both my hands on the top of my head, and then I'm just going to be tapping my fingers one at a time.

I can do two hands at the same time, but I'm trying to do one finger at the same time.

Pushing down a little bit harder if I want a bit more pressure.

And I'm gonna move down the side of my head.

Really feels nice here.

Definitely feels like a massage.

I'm gonna go back up to the top, and then I'm gonna go back down this way now.

Again, both hands at the same time, tapping all of my fingers.

Okay, your turn.

Get your hands ready, place them on top of your head, and then start tapping your fingers.

Two hands at a time.

Then let's move down the side.

Towards the back of the ear, it feels really nice as well.

Back up to the top.

And then back to the back of your head towards your neck.

In fact, actually I'm gonna touch my neck as well 'cause that feels like a really nice neck massage.

And then back to the top.

That was a nice one, wasn't it? Well done.

Let's do the wrist shake warmup.

This is one of my favourites.

This is a really fun one.

So I'm gonna start with just one wrist at a time, and I'm just gonna simply shake my wrists, left to right, left to right, back and forth, back and forth.

That's a really good way of warming up your wrist.

Then I'm gonna do my other hand.

Left to right, left to right, left to right, back and forth, back and forth.

Now I'm gonna do them together.

There we are.

Wrists feel really warmed up now.

So now it's your turn.

Everyone get your wrists ready, one hand, two hands, both hands, it doesn't matter what, and you're gonna start shaking them, left to right, left to right, left to right, back and forth, back and forth.

Maybe twisting it around in a circle like that so that they're feeling really warmed up.

Great.

Now we're ready for some handwriting.

Another great thing you can do before you start handwriting is to practise writing patterns, as this helps us to prepare for writing and joining letters.

So you can see three really cool writing patterns on the screen right now, and you can be using those and continuing those, practising writing those whenever you like in order to build up your muscle strength in your wrists and your hands, and also just to get used to those movements that are really familiar to us when we are writing cursive handwriting.

So I'm going to start by doing the writing pattern in the air with my finger.

So we'll start at the bottom, and then we'll go up, a little bit across, down, a little bit across, up, across, down, across, up, across, down, lead out.

Trying to keep my movement as smooth and flowing as possible.

Your turn.

Have your finger ready.

Let's all do this together.

Starting at the bottom, let's go up, across, down, across, up, across, down, across, up, across, down, across, and leading out.

Great job.

Well done.

I hope you enjoyed that.

It's time for Task A.

Now, using a pencil and your tripod grip, now it's time for Task A.

Making sure you're holding your pencil in a tripod grip, you're going to copy and continue these patterns using your tripod grip.

So you want the patterns to continue in the same way that you've started and that they look like on the screen.

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

You want to keep it almost stuck to the page, and focus on keeping that movement really nice, smooth, and flowing.

Pause the video now, and off you go.

Great job, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed that.

Did you use your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil on the page? And was your movement smooth? I'm sure you all did a brilliant job.

Well done.

It's now time for the second part of our lesson where we are writing the suffix -y.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters at the end of a word, which then creates another word.

So, for example, cloud is our noun, then you add the suffix -y, it becomes cloudy, and so is now an adjective.

It is a cloudy day.

Or juice.

Juice is a noun.

I like to drink juice.

If you add the -y, it becomes juicy, and is then an adjective.

That's a really juicy orange.

Slow by itself is an adjective.

The snail is very slow.

But you add -ly, it becomes slowly, an adverb.

The snail moved slowly.

There are lots of different types of suffix, and it can help our handwriting and our spelling to practise letters strings, using really common suffixes as they appear lots of times when we're writing.

<v ->y and -ly are both really common suffixes,</v> so it's really important that we practise them.

Can you remember the four joins in our cursive handwriting? Here are some examples to remind you.

Pause the video now, take a close look at each of these joins, and can you summarise how each join works? Pause the video now.

Okay, so our first join is from the baseline to the x-height line.

You can see A and W are joined in that way.

The second join is from the baseline, but this time up towards the ascender line, that's how C and H joined.

The third join is from the x-height line to the x-height line.

You just dip down a little bit.

And then the fourth join goes from the x-height line up towards the ascender line.

That's how W and L are joined.

So here is the suffix -y in cursive handwriting.

It's just the letter Y.

It is formed just from the letter Y.

What do you notice about the letter formation? Pause the video now and take a closer look.

So, the letter Y in this suffix begins with a lead in, and it ends with a lead out loop.

Let's look really closely again.

The letter Y has a lead in, which starts on the baseline.

The letter Y has a lead out loop, because it has a descender.

Which join is used to join the letter Y, will depend on the letter before.

So depends on the word really.

So I'm going to form the suffix -y in cursive in the air with my finger.

So I'm gonna start on the baseline, and then I'm gonna go up to the x-height line, down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, and then go down into a descender and form my lead out loop.

Your turn now.

Make sure you've got your finger ready in the air, and let's form up the suffix -y.

So starting on the baseline, go up to the x-height line, back down to the baseline, back up to the x-height line, and then down pass the baseline into a descender, and then a lead out loop.

If you want to you can have another go practising that with your in the air.

Otherwise, really well done.

So these words are written in cursive handwriting and they use the suffix -y.

So you can see we have cloudy and sunny.

It was a cloudy day.

It was a sunny day.

Both adjectives.

Look really closely at both words.

What do you notice about the letter formation and the joins? Pause the video now.

Okay, so cloudy begins with a lead in in the first letter C, then you have an ascender in the letter L and in the letter D, and it finishes with a lead out loop on the letter Y.

Then sunny, again begins with a lead in on our first letter S, and it ends with a lead out loop on the letter Y.

So, what do you need to think about when writing letter strings with a common suffix? So the first letter of the word has a lead in from the baseline.

The last letter has a lead out.

There will be a range of cursive letter joins used within the letter string, depending on which letters are in the word.

So depending on what the word is.

And in these examples, the suffix -y is joined using the first join from the baseline to the x-height line.

So from D in cloudy, that's joined using the first join, and then N in sunny, it's also the first join.

But it won't always be that way with the suffix -y 'cause it depends on what letter comes before it.

Remember that you don't lift your finger until you have.

Sorry.

Remember that you don't lift your pencil to dot an I or cross a T until you have finished completing the letter string.

Let's look closely at this word.

What do you notice about the letter formation and joins? Pause the video now.

So the letter F, which starts the word, has a lead in loop and a lead out loop.

You might have practised writing the letter F quite a few times already in pre-cursive lessons, but if you need to, definitely spend some time practising forming the letter F with its lead in loop and its lead out loop.

When the letter F is at the beginning of a letter string, you start the lead in loop from the baseline.

So, check in for understanding.

"When would you add the dot for the letter I when writing the word juicy?" A, once the letter string is complete.

B, after forming the main body of the letter I.

Or C, whenever you feel like it.

Pause the video now.

That's right, it is A, once the letter string is complete.

"The dot for the letter I or the cross for the letter T are only added once the letter string is complete.

Well done.

Let's practise writing words with the suffix -y.

We're going to write cloudy and sunny.

So let's start with cloudy.

I'm going to make sure I'm sitting comfortably with my feet firmly on the ground and my pen in a tripod grip.

Then I'm going to get my pen ready on the baseline, at my starting point.

I'm ready to go, so I'm going to say to myself, "Ready, line, go." I'm really gonna be focusing on trying to keep my pen on the page, not removing it at all during this word.

So, starting with my lead in to form the letter C, then joining C to L up to the ascender line, then joining L to O from the baseline to the x-height line, fourth join joining O to U, and then forming a letter D up to the ascender line, and then finally, my letter Y with a lead out loop at the end.

Then I'm going to write the word sunny.

Again, I'm starting on my baseline.

I'm ready to go, so I'm gonna say "Ready, line, go." Starting with my lead in to form the letter S, joining S and U from the baseline to the x-height line, U and N in the same way, and then joining N and Y, and finishing with lead out loop from the descender line.

Checking for understanding.

"Select the correct formation of the suffix -y using the letter Y." Pause the video now.

That's right, it is A.

Well done.

So it's time for Task B.

First, you need to practise writing the suffix -y.

Practise the suffix -y using the starting point, so the dot that's on the baseline.

Then practise writing the following words on your lines, cloudy, sunny, noisy, and funny.

I suggest you write each word at least three times if you can.

Pause video now.

Off you go.

Great job, everybody.

Do your words in cursive handwriting look a bit like this? Did you use the correct joins within the letter strings? Did you keep your pencil on the page until the end of the letter string? If you need to, you can have another go at rewriting any of these words again to make them as neat as possible.

Otherwise, read back through all the words, look at all your joins really closely, and then circle your best join so that you can celebrate.

Pause the video now.

Great job, everybody.

It's now time for the third part of our lesson where we are writing the suffix -ly.

Here is the suffix -ly in cursive.

You can see it's formed from the letters L and Y joined together.

What do you notice about the letter formation and the joins that are used? Pause the video now and take a really closer look.

Okay, so the letter L begins with a lead in starting on the baseline, and it ends in the letter Y, which has a lead out loop.

This is an example of the first join, because it begins at the baseline and goes up to the x-height line.

So let's look at it really closely just one more time.

The first letter has a lead in from the baseline.

The last letter, Y, has a lead out loop.

The join is from the baseline to the x-height line, so this is the first join.

The letter Y has a descender as part of the letter that falls below the baseline, and this descender becomes a lead out loop in cursive handwriting.

Remember, you do not lift your pencil off the page when forming the join.

So I'm going to form the suffix 'ly in cursive handwriting in the air using my finger.

So, I'm gonna start with my lead in on the baseline, and I'm gonna go straight up to the ascender line, and back back down to the baseline, and then I'm gonna form my join, go up to the x-height line, start to form my letter Y, down below the baseline into a descender, and then a lead out loop.

Your turn now.

Have you got your finger ready? Let's all do this together.

We're gonna start on the baseline and then we're gonna start our lead in into the letter L up to the ascender line, down to the baseline, then starting our join up to the x-height line, forming our letter Y, down below the baseline into a descender, and then a lead out loop.

Did you enjoy that? If you need to, you can pause the video and have another go at practising the suffix in the air with your finger.

Otherwise, really well done.

So these words are all written in cursive handwriting, and they used the suffix -ly.

So we have calmly, I was walking calmly along the road.

And simply, I was dressed very simply today.

Look really closely.

What do you notice about the formation and the letters and the joins? Pause the video now.

Okay, so let's look at calmly.

It begins the first letter C with a lead in starting on the baseline, it has an ascender, two Ls, and it finishes with the letter Y, which has a lead out loop as a descender.

"Simply," it also begins with a lead in on the letter S, and it has another lead out loop at the end, on Y.

There's two descenders letters in this word, aren't there? P and Y.

What do you need to think about when you're writing a letter string with a common suffix? You need to remember that the first letter in the word has a lead in from the baseline.

The last letter has a lead out.

These examples, it's a lead out loop.

There will be a range of cursive letter joins used within the letter string, depending on which letters are used in the word.

The suffix -ly, uses the first join from the baseline to the x-height line.

And you don't lift your pencil until you have completed the letter string.

So in the word "simply," you won't go and dot your I until you finished writing the letter string.

Let's practise writing words with the suffix LY or -ly.

We're going to write the word calmly and simply.

So let's start with calmly.

I'm gonna make sure my feet are firmly on the ground.

I'm sitting in the correct position.

I'm using my non-writing hand to keep the paper still.

And then I'm gonna find my baseline to start on.

I'm ready, so I'm going to say, "Ready, line, go," and really focus on keeping my pen or pencil on the page.

So, starting with my lead in to form the letter C, off we go.

C and A are joined together with the first join, and I'm gonna join A to L up to the ascender line, then L to M, and then I need to add in my suffix -ly, so I'm going to go up to the ascender line, back down to the baseline for my letter Y with a descender line and a lead out loop.

Now we're going to write the word simply.

So again, ready, line, go.

Starting with my lead in to form the letter S, joining S to I at the baseline, I to M at the baseline, and then MP, and now we need to add our suffix, so baseline to ascender line, and forming the letter Y with a lead out loop.

And now we'll go back and dot the I.

Checking for understanding.

"Select the correct join.

A, B, or C?" Pause the video now.

That's right, it is B.

Well done.

Okay, it's time for Task C.

First, you need to practise writing the suffix -ly, using the starting point on the baseline to help you.

Then you'll practise writing the following words on your lines, calmly, simply, heavily, and nicely.

Just like last time, I was just trying to write each word at least three times.

Pause the video now.

Off you go and enjoy.

Okay, well done, everybody.

Great job.

Have a look at all your words.

Did you use the correct joins within your letter string? Do they look similar to the examples on the screen now? Did you remember the lead out loop for the letter Y? If you need to make any edits or rewrite any of the words again in your neatest cursive handwriting, now's the time to pause the video and have another go.

Okay, well done, everybody.

Take a really close look at all the words that you've written.

Circle your best join and celebrate.

Here's a summary of everything we've learned today.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters at the end of a word, which creates another word.

<v ->y and -ly are examples of common suffixes.

</v> There are four joins used to connect letters together in cursive handwriting.

The join used depends on which letter is joining to which letter within a letter string.

<v ->ly uses the first join</v> to connect the letter L to the letter Y.

Which join is used to connect the suffix depends on the letter before the letter suffix is added.

You don't lift your pencil when forming the joins, and you only lift your pencil once the letter string is complete or there is a break letter within this letter string.

Great job today, everybody.

Really well done.