Short a

These past two weeks we have been working on hearing, finding and saying the short a sound.  Last Friday we had our first "test" to see what we have learned so far.  We wrote down short a words, wrote a sentence that was dictated to us, and then wrote down the three high frequency words that we were focusing on writing that week.  To prepare us for our Friday "tests", we have been working with a lot of poems and highlighting the short a words, playing games and doing other activities on the Smartboard.  Please help your child feel confident and ready for each Friday by helping them practice throughout the week.  The first day of each week we write down all of the words that we will need to know how to spell for Friday.  This sheet gets sent home in their communication folders.  Please be on the look out for the sheet each week and just call out the words for your child to write down!   You can make this into a game if you like!