Contraction Kites

This past week during our reading time we have been reviewing contractions. Students remembered that contractions are two words that are put together with an apostrophe. They then had an opportunity to put this knowledge to use by breaking apart a contraction into the two words that form it and create their own "contraction kite".

Each student was given a contraction on a small piece of paper such as "don't", "can't", or "wouldn't", etc. They then wrote this contraction on a diagonal piece of colored paper that would be the main part of their "contraction kite". The next step was to write each word that formed their contraction on a different ribbon shaped piece of paper for their kite. Then students wrote a sentence using their contraction on a white cloud piece of paper. Lastly, students combined these pieces together by taping a string on the back of each piece of paper to create their "contraction kite".

These beautiful kites are now hanging around our classroom, giving the room a springy feel!