Practicing Possessive Nouns

This week we've been learning about the difference between plural nouns and possessive nouns.  We recently learned through our spelling patterns that we have to use an apostrophe when writing a contraction.  We learned this week that we also need to use an "apostrophe s" when showing ownership.  We had a lot of fun practicing this skill today by using pictures.  The class knows that I'm always taking pictures of everything for our blog.  Those pictures were used today to write possessive noun phrases.  A picture of each student was printed and put on each student's desk.  The students went around and looked at each picture and wrote down a possessive noun phrase.  The name of the student pictured would begin the possessive noun phrase and anything else in the picture could be included.  The class was totally engaged in this practice and said they loved looking at all the pictures.