Text Box: Contraction Surgery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: We started with the two words that would be the patient. Text Box: Students worked in pairs. They took turns being the doctor and the nurse. The doctor performed the surgery while the nurse passed medical instruments to him/her. The medical tools were: scissors (scalpel) permanent stitches (tape) bandages (a band-aid). When the band-aid comes off, a scar is left. That's the apostrophe!                                      

 

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.

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

    

 

 

 

Text Box: This takes concentration and team work.     

 

 

Text Box: This dedicated surgeon works with great precision!

 

 

 

    

Text Box: All of our patients survived and they each have a great prognosis for an active life as a contraction.  Nice work doctors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: After we removed the letters, we first put on stitches (tape).