Question (for teachers??)
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Posted By: KiwiL
Subject: Question (for teachers??)
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 11:59am
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I am guessing that this doesn't *really* matter but thought I would ask!
Jackson has an amazing memory and is currently obsessed with a wooden puzzle where the pieces spell out his name. He's quickly memorised the letters in his name. He LOVES puzzles so we thought we'd get him an alphabet puzzle. He'll love it and it will be a chance for him to start learning to recognise his letters. Do you think I should get a lower case puzzle or an upper case puzzle? His name puzzle is mostly lower case so was thinking that would be best so as not to confuse him. Thinking about it - what a pain that upper and lower case letters are different!!! 
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Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 12:52pm
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100% go with lower case i'm a kindy teacher and we teach children to write their name in lower case with the first letter being a captial.
I have seen HEAPS of children who have been taught the whole alphabet in upper case and then can't understand that there is a lower case, some think they are different letters all together. try explaning that an "A is an a" it's tricky is all i can say! 
So start right lower case abc and then introduce upper later. -------------  
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 1:44pm
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thats interesting thanks for the info. i have just starting trying to teach Ella the alphabet and was wondering the same thing. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: jjands
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 1:45pm
| I got a wooden puzzle from the $2 shop the other day it has the letters underneath in lower case with upper case on the top and a little picture on each to help |
Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 2:05pm
*Blush* this was us! While we taught Ollie both upper and lower cases we always wrote his name in upper letters. It didn't take long to undo our mistake, thank goodness. ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
LJsmum wrote:Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 2:10pm
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That is really interesting, shall have to remember that! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 3:17pm
| Yep definitely lower case, there's a font you can get for your computer (sorry I don't know where from but our kindy got it) that looks like New Zealand handwriting the way the kids should be learning it- great for labels, flashcards, etc. Maybe a teacher would know where from? You could print off letters of the alphabet or their names etc & get it laminated so they can practice by tracing around the letters with a whiteboard marker. |
Posted By: snugglebug
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 4:41pm
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Yeah I agree, I taught 5 year olds and it took ages to get them to change if they had learnt their name in uppercase. Sometimes they would just have one letter in the middle of the name being uppercase, was weird. They use the lower case more often and need to understand the role of upper case before learning it I think. So I would definitely go for the lower case. ------------- Me 28, DH 29 DS born 20 Nov 2010 (4 years old) #2 due October 7 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 8:24pm
| Biggest mistake I ever did was teach my oldest her name in uppercase. It took longer to unteach it than it would have to leave her to it and learn at the regular pace with people who actually know what they are doing. lol. Here was me thinking I was doing her a favour. |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 9:20pm
That is so interesting, I hadn't given it much thought! Great question though!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 26 November 2010 at 10:48pm
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Awesome! Glad my question helped others too. Thanks for the great answers people.
I got a puzzle - lower case. The one I really liked had the 'A' like it comes out on computer fonts - with the flicky thing on top. Which didn't seem that useful really. But I found another one that had the 'A' as it would be taught at school. http://www.elctoys.co.nz/p-3156-lift-out-alphabet-puzzle.aspx - Here is the puzzle if anyone was interested! |
Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 27 November 2010 at 9:03am
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great puzzle may buy one for DS1 he loves singing the abc song.
All the letters look good too. -------------
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Posted By: crakars
Date Posted: 27 November 2010 at 10:07am
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I also second the lower case alphabet it can take ages for some children to re adjust if they have been taught capitals only.
a font that is good is the comic sans one as it does the a properly e.g. a (wrong) - also make sure the know this g as well as the one with a curly tail iykwim -------------  http://lilypie.com"> 
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