Kindergarten Cops and the Puctuation Police

Welcome to Kindergarten Cop Station!

 

We did a super fun lesson about punctuation that involved us becoming police officers!  Actually, we became the Punctuation Police! 

 

We made our own police hats and got our own "official" police badges to wear.  Dressing the part is always important!

We then worked with a partner because officers don't usually work alone.  Team work is important!  

 We each got a ticket pad.  Then we pulled sentences out of the buckets on our tables.  We had to read the sentence with our partner and determine what kind of punctuation the sentence needed.  

We had been noticing in our reading that not every sentence ended with a period.  We were curious about what those other marks were!  We read some books about other kinds of punctuation before we began this lesson.  We learned that we should use a period when we are telling something.  We should use a question mark when we are asking something.  And we should use an exclamation point when we are excited about something. 

 Once we read the sentence and decided what kind of punctuation it needed, we had to take our sentences to the Cheif!  We had to meet with either Chief Addington or Chief Gordon to figure out if what we thought was right.  Then we went back to our seats to do the paperwork!  We had to write the sentence on our ticket pad using spaces between our words and the correct punctuation at the end. 

 

We had a lot of fun doing this!  We did a great job reading and using different kind of punctuation!

Of course, then it was time for a break! 

What would any good cop do for a break?!? 

Eat some donuts and drink some coffee (we pretended with juice!)!

 

What a perfect way to end a hard day on the job!