Today we colored and assembled an elephant for our E pocket pictures. Modeling and verbal instructions were provided to help with target area coloring. After labeling the pictures to ensure Becca knew them, we worked on our various picture pocket packs towards using short sentences instead of just saying the picture names. For ex. "I see the elephant. I like corn" and so on. This required a great deal of modeling and will be a continued activity to encourage expanded language use.

Becca did echo read "Go, Go, Go" on RAZ kids with me today. She prefers to just listen to the audio provided, but we will continue to encourage the echo reading.

On starfall.com we explored various sounds. We also tried the word family activity again today. Becca needed a little encouragement but performed wonderfully! She completed 4 word families in which the picture is provided, the final two letters, and 4 letters as options to fill in the first letter to make the words. We did the word families –en, -et, -ig, and ip. In all cases, Becca was able to answer 3 of 4
independently (with me emphasizing the initial sound alone and at the beginning of the word), and for the one she could not name, she was able to name the letter when two-choices were offered. Frankly, I was blown away! We will continue to explore word families and the segmenting that accompanies this task (for sounding out each sound of the word to then read the word).

We used some preposition cards (directional words) and mimicked the actions with a small bird figure and a block. We practiced “on, under, and in front of”.

I gave Becca a picture of a “sun” with each letter blocked off and the correct letter tiles to spell the word herself. She was able to match the tiles with the letters provided with minimal assistance. We also did this with “leaf”.

We enjoyed several fun stories today including “Bounce” and “Who Can Swim”.

I know Becca’s urinary / toileting status is being addressed. Just to keep you aware of what we did today: I took her to the bathroom every 30-40 minutes. She did indicate she didn’t want to sit and indicated discomfort in her body movements. I sang children’s songs to her while she said which worked as a nice distraction to encourage her to sit longer and see if she would be able to go. She never did urinate at school today.