Today was a fun session before spring break. To begin, I read the rest of the book "Mercy Watson Fights Crime" by Kate DiCamillo. Libby brought a stuffed animal pig from home to participate! We went to the staff kitchen so that Libby could sequence magnetic letters on the refrigerator. She identified the vowels and built CVC words using all vowels. She independently built the following irregular words: and, the. Libby's confidence is growing with decoding and encoding. Returning to her office, we reviewed the rest of her irregular word deck and learned a new word: is.