Contraction Surgery!!!

  We have been so great about noticing punctuation that we have been inserting apostrophes where they don't belong! To clear up any misconceptions we turned our room into an operating room and conducted "Contraction Surgery" an activity I came across while searching www.spellingcity.com for a list of commonly used contractions. We had a guest visitor Mr. Wilson, a soon to be doctor, specializing in sentence surgery for the day come to help with the operations.
 To set up the lesson I wrote phrases on sentence strips that could be turned into contractions. (ie. she is, he will, we would...) We cut out the unnecessary letters and formed contractions. When we tried to operate on "will not" we thought our patient was nearly inoperable until Dr. Mecoli, one of our principals, realized we may just need a transplant! How funny!?! We made the necessary incisions, used invisible stitches when necessary, and used band-aids to patch our sentence strip patients up and serve as the apostrophe.

A discussion on why it is important to wear gloves during surgery:

 Lining up to scrub in for surgery:

Hand sanitizer- the proper method of scrubbing up for contraction surgery:

Scrubbing under our fingernails:

We couldn't stop laughing one size fits all gloves were way to big for the kids!

Here we are putting face masks on in preparation for the surgeries. 

A very difficult patient:

What are we going to do with this guy?! 

Look at the concentration! 

A successful day at the Sentence Surgery room- Contraction Surgery unit!!!

Happy patients. :) 

A huge thank you to the letter donor, the word not, for a successful contraction transplant!!!