Second day on the same lesson — p.22, a column of real words on one pattern. Do not re-teach it. Re-run the column and go at whatever the children were not accurate on yesterday.
Open wide like short a, but now pull your tongue BACK and let your lips go round — /o/, as in 'hot'.
They check it: Mirror: wide open, but the lips are round, not smiling. That is what separates it from short a.
Not in Somali. For those children this is a new physical skill, not a reminder. Do not let the column start until the mouth can make it.