Contraptions

Aaron loves to build and make contraptions. There is scrap wood in the shed from the basement project just waiting for some hammer and nails to see what he will come up with. He wants Daddy to come home first and saw it into smaller pieces.

However, those are not the kind of contraptions this post is about. Yesterday I was going over Aaron's spelling words with him. One of the words was "they're." He spelled it t-h-e-y-'-e-r. I wrote down the words "they" and "are" and showed him how the apostrophe takes the place of the a and the re stay in the same order. Contractions are not a new concept to him, but the little bit of teacher that is left in me couldn't resist breaking it down. He said, "I just have a hard time with contraptions." I smiled and said, "Yes. Those contraptions can be tricky." He'll eventually figure out what they are called.