We started the morning with an assessment of Becca's recognition of lowercase letters. I question the reliability quite a bit as she needed a great deal of encouragement to participate. At that point in time, she recognized all letters except: q, d, m, n, v, t, g, u, and i.
Today we made a lion picture pocket for l words. Becca did a nice job coloring more completely today. We looked up pictures of lions on the Internet and wrote some facts on the back of our lion for continued conversation. I handed Becca her hat picture and the letters h, a, and t. She said "I need glue" as I hadn't gotten her the glue stick yet. I prompted her with "what do we hear first?" and I made an /h/ sound. She replied "h". She then proceeded to glue the h first and put the a in the last spot. She then removed the a and put it in the middle (self corrected), and then finished the word with the t. We sounded out hat, with encouragement and then went through all of the other three words we have done.
Because the negation concept has been difficult, we will take a step back and work on more sorting activities. We will examine how things can be put together. We started today with a sort of foods vs. vehicles (things we can ride in). There were three pictures for each category. She did well with this activity.
We also practiced some CVC word building of the -an family on Starfall today. We will begin really focusing on expanding Becca's help requests. Instead of just "help please", we will work on including the exact request. For ex., Becca needed help opening her cheese bag. Instead of just "open please", she needed to say "open (the) cheese (bag) please" to have her needs met. This will be done within her patience parameters. I would never deny requests for help, however if her tolerance level allows, this is a good opportunity to expand language for more detailed verbalizations. Today it helped to say "open what?" and she then provided the object name. We reviewed our Horses book and performed some fine motor paper tasks. We played a new game called Zingo. Each player receives a card that has 9 simple pictures and words.
A card dispenser sends out two cards at a time. The players take the appropriate cards they need to fill their card (we played that Becca got to pick what she needed of the two and I got the leftovers vs. the competitive version). This activity required Becca to determine what she did and did not need for her card, as well as sharing. Behavioral report: Becca was more defiant in her actions today. We do the picture cards routinely and she has become primarily independent in this activity. She knows she is supposed to choose one crayon and color. She also knows that we write with the pencil and not color with it. Today she grabbed three pencils and started coloring with them. While I keep her work space cleared off, I do try to leave her crayon box open and available, to give her the opportunity to make good choices and have options, etc. She also was grabbing quite a bit throughout the day. For ex., when I laid papers out for her, she was grabbing them and pulling them to her chest. She rarely gave things back on initial command. Most of the time today, I had to count to three for her to hand them back. She also used whining and crying about task completion rewards today (demanding the reward whenever she wanted it). I'll typically offer her a short Mickey song video, a Starfall letter phonics video, or RAZ kids story. On many occasions, she is choosing the Starfall phonics video, which is exciting. Today she needed a lot of reminders that she needed to first complete the task before receiving the reward. On average, I would estimate our tasks are approximately 10 minutes, maybe even less. If it is longer or more tedious, I will offer her a break on the bean bag. Hopefully it was just an off day.

Potty status: Becca had been grabbing herself off and on for about 10 minutes. I decided to see what she'd do. She finally asked to go to the potty (10:00) and did produce. Yay, treasure box! She asked to go again at 10:45, produced, and earned a Hello Kitty hair brush from the treasure box.