Happy Monday! Today marks the first day of my sailing lessons!!! I hope I don't regret this adventure... I'll let you all know tomorrow. :)
Time for Monday Made It, yeah!
Here is what I made this week: contraction shakers!!!!!!!!
This idea has been cooking in my brain for a while, and I had the empty bottle collection to prove it. :) A while back, Denise at Sunny Days in Second Grade posted about her synonym shakers, and I was totally in love with them! I knew my class would for sure love them, too.
Our reading series puts a TON of emphasis on contractions, and for some reason my class was really into them this past year, so I decided to make contraction shakers!
And you can make them, too!! I put my word lists and labels into a little document-o for ya.
When I looked up the Common Core standard for this activity, I noticed that it did not exist in the first grade set. So, question for you today: in which grade does your school teach contractions?
I teach one set of contractions in first grade in the fall and then the other set in the spring.
How about you?
