Crazy Candy Corn Contractions

Last week in our reading curriculum we were beginning to learn contractions; what they are and how they are formed. After learning all about contractions, the students were ready to experiment with contractions on their own. In order to do this, we created “Crazy Candy Corn Contractions”!

The first step in this project was in forming the candy corn. Students cut out the different colored pieces for the candy corn and glued them all together. After gluing, each student was given two words, such as “should” and “not”. The students wrote the first word at the top of their candy corn and the second word in the middle of their candy corn. Once they had those words written down, the students had to decide how to form the contraction for those two words. Once they understood how to form the contraction, they wrote it at the bottom of the candy corn along with a sentence including that contraction.

The last step in this process was in creating a crazy face for the candy corn and gluing on the arms and legs. Once students finished these last steps, each student had the opportunity to come up in front of the class and share their contraction, sentence, and crazy candy corn faces with the rest of the students.  

These “Crazy Candy Corn Contractions” can be seen decorating our hallway window. Come on over and read our contractions as well as see the crazy faces that these creative second graders drew on their candy corn contractions.