Every year our school celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday with Green Eggs and Ham Day. The exact details change, but it always culminates in the academic specialists and paras helping our lunch lady fix about 20 dozen eggs and dye them green to serve to the kids. This year I was looking at the stacks of egg cartons (the 3 dozen variety) and I thought, those could be a really fun center activity. The wheels kept turning and contraction eggs were born. To make you will need: egg cartons (I used the large version and let kids work in pairs but there's no reason why the smaller versions wouldn't work as well), plastic eggs, a box (or other container to hold the egg halves) and a permanent marker. First I labeled each cup of the carton with a contraction. I actually cheated a bit for this step and Googled the 100 most used contractions in the English language. It saved me a lot of time trying to think up enough different contractions! Second, I labeled my eggs: the first word on the top half of the egg and the second on the bottom. This is easiest if you do it with the egg put together. I learned the hard way that it's very easy to write the words so they are actually facing each other, making one upside down when the egg is put together. My other tip for this step is not to use the same color for both halves of the egg as this would give a clue as to the answer. Last, I broke apart all the eggs, mixed them up in the box, and took it all to school. My students had a blast digging through the box, putting words together and matching them to their contraction "home". This project is a free download in my teacher store and I've provided a link to the left, just click the top picture. I've also linked a couple of my other contraction activities (just click the pictures). Next week I'll tell you how I made my "fishing holes" for the Fishing for Contractions and Parts of Speech Games. |
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