Text Box: Contraction Surgery

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Text Box: We started with two words that would be the "patient".

 

Text Box: Today the class of Room 12 graduated from Second Grade and moved on to medical school to perform contraction surgery.  Contraction surgery is a fun activity to help students understand how contractions are made.  Each student received a sentence strip with two words on it and performed "surgery" to remove the unnecessary letters to form a new word.

  

 

Text Box: We gathered our medical tools and decided who would be the doctor and the nurse. Then, we began the surgery. We removed letters that are not necessary when a contraction is made. After the surgery was complete, they switched jobs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: After we removed the letters, we put in stitches (tape). Then we use a bandage to cover the scar (apostrophe).

Text Box: The nurses paid careful attention to what the doctors were doing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Our patients have a very good prognosis for a happy, healthy life as a contraction! due to the careful and skillful work of our word surgeons!  

 

 

 

 

Text Box: These dedicated surgeons works with great precision!