November 6

Yesterday we learned how to form the last of the lower case letters. This means that children should now be saving capital letters for special places like the beginning of their names and the beginning of sentences. 

The concept of a sentence is hazy, so grammatical perfection is not the goal. I'm happy if a child is trying to use a capital at the beginning of what the child thinks is a sentence. 

What is a really big no-no from now on is a capital letter in the middle of a word. If your child is writing at home and you see random capitals, ask your child why (s)he chose to use it there -- after you've oohed and ahed over the fact that your child is writing thoughts you can read.