Homeschool chats

This morning King Meemer (age 6...first grade) was showing me how neatly he wrote his spelling list for the week. Our emphasis for him has been 'slow down' and work on remembering to capitalize proper nouns. I told him any word that was floating would have to be rewritten 10 times. Imagine, that worked! No more floating or sinking spelling words.

He showed me his list and it was much neater. Unfortunately, the words that needed capitalizing had remained lowercase. I reminded him that if it was the 'name' of something, that it need to be capitalized, using the word 'big letter' along with the word capitalized.

He went on to tell me that a dog's name...like Hunter should have a capital H. Then he said, "Or another dog that is a Golden Contriever, should have his name capitalized too."

Yes, Golden Contrievers who have names, ought to capitalize them. That would be good. I don't think we will work on the fact that our dog is a Golden Retriever just yet, as it is way too cute presently.