Today we had a meeting with Becca's mother, Ms. Judie, Becca's Behavioral Therapist Heidi, and myself. We reviewed the potty training planning, including that Becca receives tokens for having a bowel movement on the potty. After earning three tokens, she gets a big prize. Ms. Judie requested that tokens be provided to us so that if a BM occurs, Becca can receive an immediate reward. We also discussed current behavior strategies being implemented at home and at school. Copies will be made available for the school to use as a resource. Based on a quick review of the materials, it was determined that similar strategies are being followed at school.
Today we repeated the RAZ Kids "Play Ball" story to see if Becca could more readily recall details of the story on command. Yesterday it took her 4 viewings of the story to name 4 balls. Today it took only one viewing of the story. We made our I is for... Picture pocket pack. The iguana is more abstract in its drawing, and not as common as some other animals. We looked up some pictures of iguanas online and I wrote some facts about them on the back of the iguana that we discussed. We traced letter H and I sheets today with some hand-over-hand assistance. We did a sort of G/H/I is for... pictures from our Starfall pictures. This was a little harder for Becca as some of the nouns for these letters are not as common. We tried an activity which showed an uppercase letter and a lowercase of the same letter and then a third letter which did not match. Becca had a hard time understanding which letter “doesn’t belong”. We will practice this discrimination task more.
Yesterday we started a new activity with segmenting of each sound in CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words, then blending the sounds together to make words. I gave Becca a picture of a cat and the three letters c, a, t. I gave her the letters and assisted in her gluing them in the right order. We then spoke each sound and then blended the sounds together to make the word. Becca demonstrated interest in the activity, but needed a great deal of modeling and encouragement to repeat the sounds with me. Today, I decided we would make a duplicate book so that she could have one at home and repeat the task to condition the process. I did not show her the page from yesterday. I gave her one letter at a time and she glued them in the correct order (from right to left though, she put the t on first, but in the correct spot). She needed a lot of modeling again to say each sound and then blend, however that is my expectation at this time in starting this new complicated task. I was so excited to see her put the letters in the correct spots. We will send the book home when it is completed.
We reviewed the “Counting Butterflies” book and Becca identified “see” on the word wall. She did repeat 1, 3, and 5 on the pages today. She did a good job sitting in her seat in the lunchroom for snack and enjoyed some outside time. Fine motor tasks today: tracing letters and ripping paper.
Her rewards today included: starfall phonics short videos, favorite stories on RAZ Kids, “Let it Go (Libre Soy)” with the high school girls, and Mickey Mouse “Hot Dog” video.