Today, we were contraction surgeons! We started by building a little background knowledge talking about what a surgeon actually does. Once everyone understood the concept, I showed them how they were going to be word surgeons by cutting open some words and then "stitching" them back together.
I paired the students up and gave each of them a sentence strip with 2 words. Their job was to take the words and preform surgery to turn them into their contraction form. To make the apostrophe, we used bandaids! Everyone had a blast, and I think it really helped them to understand the concept of a contraction.
