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What Is a Contraction?

A contraction is two words, put them together ...

... leave out a letter (or letters) then put an apostrophe in its place to form a new word.

Here are some first graders playing a contraction matching game available online:

Check out the matching contraction game under the 'Language Skills Review & Game' section. Can you match the contractions?

Save the Turkeys

After reading Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano, we designed turkey disguises to help Turkey escape becoming Thanksgiving Dinner.

Turkey wants to escape becoming part of the Thanksgiving feast. What do you suggest as a disguise?

Happy or Sad?

On Mondays, we look forward to doing "Happy or Sad?" We get to pick one thing from our weekend and briefly share with the class.

How was your day?

Pow Wow 2010

Watching 'farm-tastic' kindergarten tribes commemorate Native American Powwows

"Writing Time! Writing Time!"

"It is so much fun!
We write each day and do our BEST until our work is done."

"Stretch our words. Write the sound. This is what we do."

"We tell great stories with pictures and words and you can do it too!"

Do you know the elements needed in a good story?

Any Connections?

Making connections is one way a good reader reveals he/she is thinking about the story. This also helps the reader better understand what was just read. See what some first graders thought about Possum's Harvest Moon by Anne Hunter:

What did the story make you think about?