Hi, everybody, it's Ms. Gardner.

Welcome to today's handwriting lesson.

In today's lesson, we're going to be practising our cursive handwriting by copying out famous quotations from various different famous figures in history.

I really hope you enjoy the lesson, and let's get started.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to correctly copy out famous quotations in legible, cursive handwriting.

Let's start by looking at the keywords.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Quotation.

This is a word, phrase, or sentence that is taken directly from someone's speech or writing and is presented within quotation marks to indicate it as somebody else's words.

Inverted commas.

These are also known as quotation marks and they're punctuation marks used to indicate the beginning and the end of direct speech or a quotation.

Join.

These are how the letters are connected together.

Letter spacing, the amount of space between individual letters in a word.

So there are two sections of this lesson.

In the first we'll be doing a handwriting warm-up, and then we'll be reviewing and copying famous quotations.

So the purpose of today's lesson is not to write our own quotations, but to copy another one so we can practise our cursive handwriting.

So let's start with our warm-up.

Before we start, what are these pictures reminding you to do? Pause video now and have a little think or discuss this with your partner or class.

Okay, so the first picture is reminding you to be sat on a chair and at a table with your feet flat on the floor and your back against the chair.

The second picture is reminding you to angle your paper correctly.

So if you're right-handed, the paper should be angled slightly to the left, if you're left-handed, it should be angled slightly to the right, with your non-writing hand supporting you by keeping the paper still.

And then the final picture is reminding you to hold your pen or pencil in the tripod grip.

Before starting to write, it's really important to warm up your hands and wrist muscles, just like you would warm up your leg muscles before a running race.

So your hands and wrists get stronger when you exercise them.

So the more you exercise them, the stronger they get.

Warming up your hands before writing will help to improve your handwriting, and making your hands stronger will help to speed up your handwriting.

So I'm going to choose and do a hand and wrist warm-up and then you're going to have a go.

Let's warm up our hands using the piano playing technique.

This is one of my favourite warm-ups to do because you get to use your imagination to imagine in your head a really lovely tune.

So, you're going to pretend that you've got a piano underneath your hands and you're gonna stretch out your hands and your fingers ready to play your tune.

Then you're gonna start pushing down on the keys and playing a melody in your head.

Maybe you might stretch your fingers, you've got to reach a note that's a bit further away.

Maybe you're gonna push down on one note for a bit longer.

There's no right or wrong with this.

You're just imagining a nice song, and the tune might change, the melody, the speed might change, which means that you need to move your fingers in different ways.

Okay, it's your turn.

Get your fingers ready.

Imagine you've got a keyboard or a piano underneath you.

And then in your head, imagine a song that you're playing on the piano with your fingers.

This is a really good way to not only warm up your fingers, but also stretch them.

'cause you might need to stretch to play a different piano.

Have you got a fun song that you're imagining in your head? I'm sure you're all doing great.

Well done, and I hope your fingers feel really warmed up now for handwriting.

Let's do the wrist shake warm-up.

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.

This is 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.

Okay, so another thing we can do before we start our handwriting is practising writing patterns, as this helps us to prepare for writing and for joining letters.

You can see these writing patterns on the screen here will require really similar hand and wrist movements as cursive handwriting.

So it's a great thing to do before you start practising.

So, I'm gonna choose a writing pattern to do in the air with my finger, and then you're going to have a go.

The first one I'm going to choose almost looks like lots of Ss joined together, doesn't it? So I'm gonna start at the top.

I'm gonna really try to focus on keeping my movement smooth and flowing, and I'm gonna go squiggling down, squiggling down, squiggling down.

And then the next pattern almost looks like the letter M maybe.

And I'm gonna start at the bottom and go up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down.

Really try to keep a smooth, flowing movement.

Your turn.

Choose a writing pattern to do in the air with your finger.

Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Well done.

So, it's time for Task A.

You need to copy and continue these patterns using your tripod grip.

Remember, don't lift your pencil or your pen off the page when forming this pattern, you must keep it glued to the page, and really focus on keeping the movement smooth and flowing.

Pause the video now.

Off you go, and enjoy.

Well done, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed that.

So have a think, were you using your tripod grip? Did you keep your pencil firmly on the page? And was your movement smooth and flowing? If you need to pause the video and have another go, you can.

Otherwise, well done.

Okay, great job, everybody.

We are now warmed up, so we are ready for the second part of our lesson where we're going to be reviewing and then copying some famous quotations.

A famous quotation is a well-known phrase, statement, or passage attributed to a particular person, work or source, and is often used and recognised by a wide audience.

These quotations often gain prominence, so almost fame, due to their wit or their wisdom, eloquence, insight, and they may be used to illustrate a point, to inspire us, to provoke thought, or to convey a universal truth.

Practising writing famous quotations in cursive handwriting will improve your handwriting.

So we're going to be looking at some different famous quotations today and practising our cursive handwriting by copying them out.

Can you remember the four joins that we have learnt in cursive handwriting? Here is an example of each join.

How could you describe each join? Pause the video now and have a think.

Okay, so the first join, which joins the letters A to W, goes from the baseline to the x-height line.

The second join, which joins C to H, goes from the baseline up towards the ascender line.

The third join is from the x-height line, then dips just a little bit below back up to the x-height line.

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

So, let's look closely at the first famous quotation.

I'll read it out loud now.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Have you heard this quotation before? Do you know who might have said it? So this inspiring quote is from Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa.

This quote supports the importance of resilience and perseverance, so never giving up.

It highlights that true greatness and success comes not from an unblemished record of achievement, so absolute perfection, but from the courage and determination to rise after every setback.

So let's look closely at the first famous quotation.

What do you notice about the letter formations? In a moment you're going to pause the video and you need to look closely at the quotation, thinking about the capital letters, the lead ins and lead outs, any looped descenders, even letter spacing, full stops, and inverted commas.

So the pause video now and take a closer look.

Okay, so let's have a look at this quotation.

What did we notice? The quotation is enclosed within inverted commas, which is another term for quotation marks.

The first letter is a capital letter, the letter T, and therefore does not join to the next letter.

You can see the letter T in the.

It's not joined to the letter H.

Instead, the letter after the capital letter starts with a lead in from the baseline.

All of the other words have a lead in and a lead out.

All four cursive letter joins are used when writing this quotation.

Can you spot them all? And the letter spacing is even to ensure the writing is legible.

Let's practise writing this famous quotation: "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." I'm making sure I'm sitting comfortably and my pen is in my tripod grip.

I'll start with the inverted commas, then the capital letter, and then I'll start the next letter after the capital letter with a lead in, 'cause we don't join the capital letter to the rest of the word.

Okay, so starting with the first word, well, starting with our inverted commas.

And then the first word, the.

Capital T.

And then I don't need to join T to H, so lead in.

The greatest, and then lead in for the letter G.

Going back and crossing my Ts after I've finished.

You'll notice we didn't go all the way up to the line above, just towards it.

Glory, looped descender.

Looped descender lead out.

In, dotting the I afterwards.

The greatest glory in living, lead in.

Looped descender, I go back and dot my I's after.

Lies.

You can see I'm really trying to make sure all my letters are on the line, not floating above it.

In never.

You'll notice in this word, never, they are all x-height letters, so I'm really trying to keep them all the same size.

Falling.

Back and dot my I after I've finished.

Then we have a comma, so making sure I'm writing that neatly on the line.

But in rising every time we fall.

So lead in to form the word but.

In rising, again, trying to keep my x-height letters the same height and my looped descender isn't going too far down, so we don't want it to squash with the line below.

Every time we fall.

Again, crossing my T and dotting my I after I finish writing the word.

Fall.

It's the end of the quotation, so we need a full stop and then the closing inverted commas.

Great! Checking for understanding.

Select the correctly punctuated sentence, a, b, or c.

Pause the video now.

Okay, the correctly punctuated sentence was, that's right, b.

It couldn't be a because the word the, the first word didn't start with a capital letter T, and it couldn't be c because there was no comma before but.

Well done.

Let's now look closely at another famous quotation.

"Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Have you ever heard of this quotation before? Do you know who might have said it? This is a quote from the very famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

The quote refers to creativity and the challenges of maintaining it into adulthood.

As people grow up, we may lose touch with their creative side, and this quote serves as a reminder of that innate creativity within all of us.

Take a closer look at the quotation.

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

Okay, let's have a look at another famous quotation.

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." Have you ever heard of this quotation before? Do you know who might have said it? I'll give you a clue, he's a musician.

So this is a quote from the British musician John Lennon, who was in the Beatles.

This quote encapsulates the unpredictability of life and the importance of living in the present moment.

Whilst planning is really important, the quote emphasises that we really need to live in the present and appreciate each moment as it comes, rather than always worrying about planning for the future.

So what do you notice about the letter formation and joins in this quotation? Pause the video now and take a closer look.

Okay, so let's have a look at the first quotation from Picasso.

The quotation is enclosed within inverted commas.

The first word in the sentence, every, has a capital letter which does not join to the next letter, V.

Instead, the letter V after the capital letter starts with a lead in from the baseline.

All of the other words have a lead in and a lead out.

There are two full stops used in this quotation, because there are two sentences within this one quotation.

So that means that there are two words beginning with a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence.

All four cursive letter joins are used in the formation of this quotation, and there is a full stop at the end of the quotation before the inverted commas.

Now let's look at the next quotation from John Lennon.

Again, the quotation is enclosed within inverted commas.

The first word in the sentence, life, has a capital letter which does not join to the next letter, I.

The letter after the capital letter starts with the lead in from the baseline.

All of the other words have a lead in and a lead out.

Here, the first, second, and third join are used in the formation of this quotation.

There is a full stop at the end of the quotation before the inverted commas, because it's the end of the sentence, the end of the speech.

And the letter spacing is even to ensure that the writing is legible.

Let's practise writing these famous quotations.

I'm making sure I'm sitting comfortably and my pen is in the tripod grip.

I'll start with my inverted commas and then the capital letter, remembering that I don't join my capital letter to the rest of the letter string.

I'm really focusing on keeping my pen flowing smoothly as I collect the letters, and I'm ensuring that my letter spacing and letter formation are correct so that it is legible.

So let's start with our first quote: "Every child is an artist.

The problem is has to remain an artist once we grow up." So starting with my inverted commas, and then capital letter.

And then remembering we don't join the capital letter to the rest of the word.

So lead in.

Every child is artist.

Lead in to start every word.

Go back and dot my I afterwards.

Crossing my Ts and dotting my I, after making sure I'm not going all the way up into the line above in my ascender letters.

Full stop.

New word, so capital letter, and then remembering that I don't join the capital to the next letter.

The problem.

Finishing each word with a lead out.

Is, again, you can see the lead out there.

How to remain.

Again, a lead out on the letter W.

Lead out on the letter O.

Remain an artist once we grow up.

All my x-height letters are the same height.

And my ascender letters are taller, but not all the way up to the line.

Otherwise they touch the descending letters from the line above.

Once we grow up.

That's the end of the quotation, so we need a full stop and closing inverted commas.

Great! Okay, now I'm going to write my next quote: "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." So again, back to the margin, starting with inverted commas, capital letter, not joining L to I.

Life is what happens.

Every word starting with a lead in and finishing with a lead out.

Crossing my T after I've finished.

Try to also keep your descender letters the same length.

Don't want one to be much longer than the other.

When you're.

Okay, here we've got an apostrophe.

So I'm going to take my pen off, apostrophe, and then finish with the R-E.

When you're busy, looped descender.

Making, looped descender, again, trying to stay on the line.

Plans.

Finishing with a lead out, full stop, closing inverted commas.

Great! Checking for understanding.

Which joins are used in the quote: "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"? Pause the video now and take a closer look.

Okay, so in this quotation, all four cursive letter joins are used to join this quotation correctly.

If you need to, you can pause the video now, take a closer look and try and spot an example of each join.

Otherwise, really well done.

It's time for Task B.

You need to copy the following famous quotations in cursive handwriting on your writing lines.

Remember, you're not using a tram line here, so you need to really think about the lesser sizing, making sure your ascender letters go above the x-height letters and the descender letters go down below, but also thinking really carefully about the size because you're not going to have the tram lines to guide you.

So pause the video now, make sure you've got your pen or pencil in the tripod grip, and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed that.

So, have a look at your three quotations.

Did you remember the inverted commas? Did you start with a capital letter? Did you ensure your letters were the correct size and formation? Have a look at your sentences and compare them to the example on the screen.

And if you need to, you can make any edits now to your cursive handwriting.

Pause the video.

Great job today, everybody.

Well done! Here's a summary of everything we've learnt.

A famous quotation is a well-known phrase, statement, or passage attributed to a particular person, work, or source that is often used and recognised by a wide audience.

Inverted commas, also known as quotation marks, are punctuation marks used to indicate the beginning and end of direct speech or a quotation.

Quotations start with a capital letter.

After forming the capital letter, you lift your pencil.

The letters in the letter strings are joined using a range of joins, depending on which letter is joining to which letter.

When writing on lines, you must ensure that the letter formation and letter spacing is correct so that the writing is legible.

Great job! Well done today.