Short a and Cooperation

We started reviewing the short vowel sounds this week and today we focused on the short a sound.  We watched a short Starfall video on the short a sound and then did a class sort where the girls matched short a words with pictures.

We also added the fifth petal to our daisy people today--cooperation.  The girls listened to Horsefly and Honeybee and we had a class discussion about what it looks like when a group of people cooperate.

After that, we gave the girls a cup, paperclips, a gummy worm named Sam, and a gummy lifesaver.  The girls had to cooperate and "save" Sam (flip the cup over, put the lifesaver on Sam, and put him in the cup) without touching anything except the paperclips.

Check out their cooperation below!

Make sure you ask your daughter if her group "saved" Sam!