Top Notch Surgeons

We create only the finest surgeons here at Forest View. They have sharp minds, and steady hands...the perfect combination for operating on words. We have been learning about contractions. Contractions are two words where we 'cut some letters out', replace them with an apostrophe, and it makes a new, smaller word.

Our friends decided that if they broke an arm, for example, they would only want to see the the most seasoned surgeon with lots of experience that could fix it up the right way. We agreed to practice our word work with contractions until we got so good at it that we could be trusted to put our words "under the knife", so to speak. Today was that day! We scrubbed up, suited up, and got to work. There were a couple of close calls and extra measures taken to revive some words, and only 2 fatalities. Thank goodness for team work in the operating room...some of those words were the most complicated patients we have ever seen. Luckily, it all worked out in the end and we had a whole bunch of doctored up words to read and write!

I hope your young surgeon enjoyed our spelling and phonics work today!