Today we started with a p-pig pictures pocket. We reviewed the p pictures. We also looked up pigs on the Internet, discussed features, and wrote facts on our pigs for ongoing discussion. We also went back and looked at our c-cat pocket and explored some facts about cats. We did our paper work and pincer grasp hand activities. Becca did some active cutting with the closing action of the scissors. We looked at pictures of things that go with the beach. Becca had to choose which pictures did and which didn't belong. She said "yes" for all of them but once we discussed the ones that didn't, she would say "no". Becca did a picture sort of jungle animals and vegetables. She sorted all six pictures correctly without help. We watched the story "Summer" on RAZ Kids. After three viewings, Becca was able to name four details (items) she saw about the main idea of summer. We completed an emergent reader about "Cars". It reads "See the (color) car" and goes through different colors.
During snack we watched a few short videos about rhyming. One was "The Big Pig Song" featuring words in the -ig word family. We read a book called "My v Book", focusing on a little girl named "Little V" and all of the "v" items in her world. We made counting carrots today. We made five orange carrots and progressively added the green leaves to each one (1-5) and counted them. Becca participated more in the counting today, but did not count all. We repeated part of the wooden block letter lacing activity today and began an assessment of letter sounds. We'll hopefully finish this tomorrow.
Becca has really gotten in to using the timer for her work breaks (she requests it... She says 10 minutes, I say two!). She has done a great job in the early morning with extending time and attention to activities. However, around 10:45, she is becoming less tolerant. By 11:45 today, she started just throwing herself on the floor, even during activity transitions when she wasnt' being asked to do anything. She was offered a break at that time. After a two minute break, she collected herself and got back to work.
Potty status: Becca started holding off and on around 10:40, asked to go at 11:05, produced and picked a Frozen mirror and received some play-doh time.