I encourage you to spend time with your child/children on some of these
educational activities:
Journeys Resources for Lesson 23:
http://settleonin.blogspot.com/2016/03/journeys-lesson-23-whistle-for-willie.html
Websites to visit with your child:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordbuilder/index.html?grade=1&unit=29
practice reading our spelling words with the short a sound:
http://prezi.com/enrm9zhlzhnu/lets-read-short-a-words/
Juliasrainbowcorner - Match the animal sound to the picture of the animal
http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/animalgame.html
Between the Lions Theo's Puzzles - Put the letter puzzle together and then
watch a video of other words that begin with the same letter sound.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/theospuzzles.html
Chicken Stacker - Click on the short vowel sounds you hear in the words
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html
Starfall - Click on the letters to hear the sounds and words they make
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f
Clifford Letter Match - Drag and drop the word to the correct beginning
letter
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/confusable/index.htm