I've been a 1st grade teacher for the past 14 years and now I am moving to preschool in the fall. I've been watching your videos to get some ideas of how to set up my classroom. I have a question about the students' names. You have the name cards with the pictures for the students to use to help spell their names. On one side you have it in all capitals and on the other side you have it with capital and lowercase letters. Why both? I understand that kids typically learn the capital letters first. However, why not have them correctly write their name from the start? Their picture is on the card, so even if they don't recognize the letters, they would see the picture and know that it is their name. I notice that at the beginning of first grade every year, I have about 5 or so students that still randomly put capitals in their names and I spend the first month or two of school having them correct it until they get it right. Is it not developmentally appropriate for preschool to have them write it correctly with capitals and lowercase?
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I've been a 1st grade teacher for the past 14 years and now I am moving to preschool in the fall. I've been watching your videos to get some ideas of how to set up my classroom. I have a question about the students' names. You have the name cards with the pictures for the students to use to help spell their names. On one side you have it in all capitals and on the other side you have it with capital and lowercase letters. Why both? I understand that kids typically learn the capital letters first. However, why not have them correctly write their name from the start? Their picture is on the card, so even if they don't recognize the letters, they would see the picture and know that it is their name. I notice that at the beginning of first grade every year, I have about 5 or so students that still randomly put capitals in their names and I spend the first month or two of school having them correct it until they get it right. Is it not developmentally appropriate for preschool to have them write it correctly with capitals and lowercase?
This is because letters are often simpler to draw and differentiate from other letters when they're capitalized.