Capitalising Words

Sweet summer time, the air is warm, the sun is shining and Koko is at summer club! Whilst at her painting club, she wants to write a letter to Pip to tell him all about what she's been up to. There's just one problem though, she's not sure what needs to be capitalised. Let's help her by learning all about capitalising words. You may already know that there are two different sizes of letters that we use when writing. One type is called capital letters, or upper case letters. These letters are bigger and sometimes slightly different than the smaller lower case letters. We can use capital letters to make some words stand out! Let's take a look at Koko's first sentence in her letter to see more. She wrote, 'how are you? I miss you so much!' You might already know that we always capitalise the first letter of the first word in a sentence. What is the first letter of the first word in this sentence? The first word is 'how', starts with the letter H and it looks like this! Let's look at Koko's next sentence. Can you think of any words that we would want to make stand out because they are important? Her next sentence says, 'The club is so much fun, I paint a new picture every day!' The next word we always capitalise is the word I. The word I represents you, and since you are important it needs to stand out! Koko's next sentence says, 'you would have so much fun here, pip'. Are there any words you think we should capitalise here? We should capitalise any names, because they are important and need to stand out, too! That means Koko should make the P in Pip a capital! Take a look at Koko's next sentence to see if there are any other words to capitalise. I can't wait to see you at friends day on Sunday the thirtieth of July!' We also always capitalise the date which includes the day of the week, here it's Sunday and the month is July! Let's check Koko's final sentence to see if she needs to capitalise any words. It says, 'see you soon, Pip!' We need to capitalise the S in see and the P in Pip! Before we see how Koko's letter turned out, let's review. Today we learnt all about capitalising words. We learnt that we capitalise some words to make them stand out. We always capitalise the first letter of the first word in a sentence, the word I, people's names and dates! Now, let's see about that letter. "I hope this gets to Pip in time." "Surprise! Happy International Friends Day!" "Oh, Pip, friends day is next week!"