It's Saturday! Almost time to think about returning to school.
Lesson: To contract, means to make smaller. Water contracts when it turns to ice, it becomes smaller in volume. The same thing happens to words. When we want to shorten our sentences, we can squash two words together.
Example: "they are" can be changed to "they're" The letter a is taken out, and in its place, there is an apostrophe that looks like a comma, but is high up.
Assignment: Please rewrite these paragraphs with the contraction made from the underlined words.
It is _______early morning, but Akili and I are not ___________asleep. We are ________in the kitchen, and we do not ______________want to make any noise because we are ___________cooking a surprise breakfast for our parents.
I cannot ____________ reach the pan to cook the eggs," Akili whispered. "It is ____________way up top of the refrigerator."
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