The Children are on board in language arts and very enthusiastic to continue their discovery of new words and sounds. This week the children were introduced to the long 'a' sound and we continued reinforcing the short 'a ' sound.We started reading Jake and Kate and investigated all the long 'a' sounds in the story. At this stage some vowel sounds may become confusing!Remember the short vowel sound 'a' makes the sound of 'a' in cat but the long 'a' vowel is special! It says the name of the letter A! The children investigated words such as lake, make and take and found a pattern! These words ended in 'e'. The 'e' at the end of these words is magic and actually made the 'a' sound say the name of the letter. What a tricky letter and sound!