I picked Saskiia up from her classroom at 11:30. We ate a snack in the lunchroom. Her brother was having a cooking lesson, and it was fun to watch him! We went to my classroom, and I explained that we would be working on letters and letter sounds. I started with alphabetic awareness. Using magnetic letters, Saskiia sequenced the alphabet; I identified the vowels and consonants and explained that every word (or part of a word) has a vowel. I picked "b" as the "letter of the day." We read the "Berestein Bear B Book" and listened for the "b" sound at the beginning of each word. Saskiia traced the lower and uppercase letters in the sand using a sand tray to provide sensory input. We made a tactile letter b with glue and sand, and concluded with writing the lowercase b on paper. In all instances, I emphasized proper letter formation. To conclude, we attended a school-wide activity (a fellow student's speech about the Boston Tea Party).