[jabbbmom]

Introducing contractions to my 2nd graders and want something fun and educational...got any ideas?

[dreamgirl]

Here are 2 links that I hope will explain how to teach contractions using contraction surgery! It is fun and the kids will love it! Good luck!

http://teachers.net/lessonplans/posts/2805.html

http://www.proteacher.org/c/799_Contractions.html

[angelajw]

What a cute song!! I will be using that one tomorrow. We did the not contractions today.

[salem]

I have not done this but have seen it talked about in other posts, so I may not be remembering it all correctly!

But it seems like the teacher gives the student a sentence strip with the two words on one end of the strip and the contraction at the other end and has the student glue a piece of macaroni where the apostrophe would go...or something like that??!!

Maybe what I read was for doing quotation marks on a sentence strip, but I guess you could adapt the idea for contractions....

Don't know if that helped or not!