A Stuff

Vowels are tricky. What sound do they make? If I remember from my college linguistics class, mostly the schwa sound, and very rarely the short A sound. But we focused on the short a sound anyway. This made finding books to find the sound kind of tricky, and I don't have any that stand out as exceptional.

Activities

Ants on a log. The classic. Celery, peanut butter, raisins. Talmage decided he didn't like celery, and I subsequently ate all the logs of ants.

Fingerprint ants.

Pretty self-explanatory. Draw the letter A. Stamp your thumbprint up the sides of the A like it is an anthill (I only had a green stamp pad). We then talked about how ants have six legs and drew them on.

Aquarium picture.

The website I found this on had a cute idea about taking a box, filling it an inch high with sand and then pasting these sea creatures on popsicle sticks and sticking them in the sand. That way, you really get the vision of aquarium being a box where you find sealife instead of the ocean our resembles. Ah well, something for next time. Here's the link to the ocean illustrations.

Talmage wrote that A all by himself.

Visit to the Living Planet Aquarium. Mamakell and Stockton came with us. It was one of Asher's first outings.

Apple Prints: For next time.

A treasure hunt. Art kit, apples, Asher, animal board book. Short A stuff is hard. The treat was frosted animal crackers.