I continue to engage Alexandra in activities that involve counting, recognizing numbers, and understanding their relationships. Examples include playing number games with dice, using a 120 chart for counting and number patterns, and utilizing manipulatives such as a large-scale abacus, counting cubes, and ten frames to visualize quantities and help her better understand place values. We began to continue work on our 2-D shapes activity using play dough and toothpicks to create the shapes, and glued the shapes we completed thus far onto a paper today and reviewed how many sides are in each shape. Practicing this skill will help reinforce and consolidate Alexandra's recall of the names of the shapes and how many sides each has, and b an introduction to angles and geometric reasoning. Real-life scenarios are being used to help to concretize and transfer Alexandra's understanding. Alexandra was also challenged to find other shapes of simple geometric figures that occur naturally in our environment (e.g. triangles - trees; circles - ponds, tree trunks; squares rocks) and to find other 2-dimensional geometric shapes in her classroom - and name them (rectangles - building blocks; squares - notebook). Math vocabulary continues to be used and reinforced, (via verbal praise and stickers) with increased evidence of correct usage and application. We ended our session constructing marble runs to enable and facilitate advanced cognitive skills while also improving motor skills and teaching problem solving and memory. Alexandra worked with another child for part of this activity and demonstrated excellent team work skills, sharing, kindness, and compatibility.