I taught a lesson on contractions today and everyone had so much fun. Students were literally calling out saying 'this is so much fun miss daly!' It made me feel really good.

We sang a song to the tune of the hokey pokey:

You pop some letters out!

To put apostrophes in!

You pop some letters out!

Thats's the way you must begin.

Do do contraction action is as easy as can be!

Come on and dance with me! Oh, yeah!

We then made paper contractions:

I feel like this was a really great lesson. The only thing i would have changed is when modelling some examples on the board, i should have mentioned you can pop more then one letter out. Some students got confused when they came to words like they had = they'd