Capital Letters and Full Stops

We have been reading lots of books and Kai also noticed the sentences in books beginning with capital letters and end with full stops. Kai has started to write and he loves writing to his friends, replying emails and writing short stories.

I thought it was a good time to start teaching him the basic punctuation rules and allowed him more time to sink into him. We talked about why we need to put a full stop behind and he requested to read more books. And usually we can read like 4 to 10 books in a go and he would still pick them up to read and look through them when I am busy in the kitchen. So this time we read a couple of books with different themes and Kai pointed out to me that each sentence begins with capital letter and ends with a full stop. And he also noticed the speeches in the stories as well as questions in stories.

After Kai have mastered our objectives of learning for this lesson, I let Kai worked on a editing worksheet with 5 sentences and he was given a blue colour pencil to highlight the part he changes.

The couple of books we read together

1. Little Platypus (Theme: Finding identity)
2. If I would (Theme: A mother's love)
3. The Sound of the Sea (Theme: The impact of death of a loved one.)
4. Plants have leaves (Theme: Living things-Plants)


Click to see Kai's work

Rewrite the sentences.

kookaburra likes to sing.
Kookaburra likes to sing.

koala loves to chew the leaves of gum trees.
Koala loves to chew the leaves of gum tress.

daddy goes for his running training this evening
Daddy goes for his running training this evening.

mummy is going to cook Vietnamese rice roll for dinner
Mummy is going to cook Vietnamese rice roll for dinner.

kai loves to fix and play with Lego sets
Kai loves to fix and play with Lego sets.

uncle eng wah is coming to visit me in December
Uncle Eng Wah is coming to visit me in December.

my grandma and uncle are going to buy me a big Lego set for Christmas.
My grandma and uncle are going to buy me a big Lego set for Christmas.

time for a break now
Time for a break now.

After checking through Kai's work, I asked him what he must remember for this lesson and one thing that I have noticed that Kai remembers that names begins with capital letters.

Remember a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.