

Write a matching contraction on these with a black marker and laminate them. The pigs face will show through the cow, duck, chicken, and farmer’s body (like a mask). The other animals need to have the faces cut out of them because they will be the pigs’ disguises. Write the two words that make up the contraction on the pigs, laminate them and glue to a manila folder. The teacher will print, color and cut-out 16 pigs, 4 cows, 4 ducks, 4 chickens, and 4 farmers.

Help your students learn contractions with this fun contraction disguises file folder game. (Sept.What child wouldn’t love a book about a bunch of clever, little pigs that outsmart a mean, old witch in search of pigs to put in her Piggie Pie? After reading this fun book, you can trick your students into practicing odd and even numbers, contractions, adjectives and other skills through the engaging Piggie Pie activities found below. Lots of fun-and certain to be the object of repeat-reading demands.

But instead of the expected heart-to-heart, Louise takes a chomp out of Grandmama too. The story looks like it's headed down an overly familiar lane when Grandmama Sadie positions herself as the only gator who truly understands Louise (“This is only a phase my little joy is going through,” she avers, chucking Louise under her scaly chin). Reinhart (the Encyclopedia Prehistorica pop-ups) gleefully records the mayhem with nicely nutty watercolor-and-ink cartoons that take full advantage of Louise's propensity to go for the gluteus maximus. She was really, really, truly quite sorry”). ) goes on to chronicle how Louise's biting manages to drive everyone around her to the brink, including an entire beach full of day trippers (“Louise was sorry. Everywhere.” (A bite-size “hole” on the jacket suggests that it, too, has succumbed to Louise's insatiable maw.) In wryly well-bred cadences that are a hoot to read aloud, Palatini ( Piggie Pie

Louise is a pigtailed, pint-size alligator with “new gleaming-white baby choppers”-which, unfortunately, give her a “tendency to.
