Today we learned about contractions. Contractions are two words that have been pushed together to make one word. We imagined that the two words that make up the contraction had been in an unfortunate accident. They smashed together with so much force that a poor vowel popped out. Luckily, we had 14 capable surgeons on hand to remove the injured vowel with their scalpels (scissors) and bandage the new word back together with a band aid. In memory of the poor vowel, we placed an apostrophe. The new word may look different, but it still means the same thing as it originally did. I wish you could have seen the concentration of the faces of the "surgeons" as they carefully worked on their "patients". As soon as the "patients" have rested, we will be using them in sentences. Then they will come home to your houses to recover! Take a look at some of the serious work going on in our "operating rooms!"
We have been working hard on our beginning writing unit. After all that hard work, it was time to celebrate. Mrs. Gilles' class joined us to share their good writing with us. We then sang a few cheers and toasted one another with Fruit Punch. 2, 4, 6, 8 Our Stories Really Great! Now we are all ready to go back to work on our next unit of writing. 1,2,3,4, we can't wait to write some more!
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December 2015
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