Rhett and Wyatt joined me on time today. At first, there were a few glitches (Rhett didn't have an iPad stand, so the screen was bouncing around). A music teacher, Mrs. Smith, supervised the session and solved the problem.

I reviewed the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. The sounds included the alphabet (short vowel sounds) and consonant digraphs sh, ch, wh, ph, th. To improve phonemic awareness, we played a sorting game in which the boys had to determine how many letter sounds they hear in a word (2, 3, or 4) and sort the images into buckets. Next, they counted the syllables they heard in 2, 3, and 4 syllable words and sorted the images. The boys co-read an oral reading fluency passage about two dogs. To conclude, we played a round of Phonics Dice.