Arrrrgh Matey, Pirate Day was a blast!

Learning about r-controlled vowels was so much fun.  We figured out that the letter r is very bossy when it has to follow a vowel and won't even let the vowel say it's name.  Some of the kids turned into 'gold'en vowels and had to hide from the powerful r - pirates but they hunted them, found them and then helped them make a word.  In fact, working together the r-controlled pirates found a ton of words with r-controlled vowels.  They wrote the words and had the pirates they made say the words.  It was super fun and the kids will always remember about "arrrrrr"-controlled vowels.