Today was one of those "No, I don't want to....I'm so tired" days. She did complete required tasks, just with more promoting and longer time needed to execute. She was delighted in earning task completion rewards of quick Mickey Mouse songs. Becca colored a jellyfish to make her J pictures pocket. We looked up pictures of jellyfish online and wrote some facts about jellyfish on our pocket. We looked at a few pages of an "Oceans" book that belonged to another student and also read a cute book about a little pig named Olivia that wants to be a ballerina. "Olivia the Ballerina" is a longer story than we usually read, so required more attending skills.

We worked on the next segmenting word for our -at family book. I asked Becca, "what sound do we hear first in b,b,bat?" She replied "b". She had a hard time with "a", but then knew "t". We glued them in order on the paper, sounded out each segment, and then blended the word. She showed increased knowledge of the task today. This is an early introduction to sounding out words. My goal at this time is to just introduce to the process. We completed a worksheet in which she had to tell me if the word started with "b" or not. She was inconsistent on this task and we will continue to work on hearing initial sounds.

We played the children's board game "Candyland" today (designed for ages 3+). Board games provide wonderful language, patience, following directions, and turn taking opportunities. Becca was only mildly interested in the game. We did complete it with a break in the middle.
We did a lot of fine motor work today with paper tearing, crumpling, and opening. We practiced with scissors. She did better with closing and did cut some paper. She also traced letter c and d on worksheets with assistance. We also completed a wooden animal puzzle. We looked at some Sesame Street number cards and Becca did help me count some of the items. We did 1-6.
She sat well in the lunchroom for snack. We then explored the actions of some musical instruments (shake, tap, and hit, etc.) Potty status: Nana took her a little before 9:00 and reported that Becca expressed pain and did not urinate. I took her at 10:30 and she did go. Around 11:40, Becca told me she needed to potty and she did produce. She picked play-doh out of the treasure box. We worked on sharing today with the play-doh. I expressed my feelings of sadness and that my feelings were hurt when she wouldn't share with me. I told her I'd have to put it away if she couldn't share and she quickly handed me the play-doh. We will continue to work on acknowledging of people's feelings instead of having to revert the more negative action of taking something away.