As Becca has shown some inconsistency with the "e" sound, sometimes saying the "a" sound, we focused on e some today. We started with a non-fiction book called "Little Elephants". We labeled their body parts and then made our own elephant trying to put the body parts in the same places. We also compared elephants in the pictures successfully with big/little and we tried little, bigger, and biggest. She had difficulty with the later. We made an emergent reader called "Trucks" in which she helped say some of the words in the sentences. Many of these readers use "see" and "the" repeatedly. We read a cute picture book called "Who Can Jump?" which inspired both of us to jump, too. We worked on a matching worksheet in which she had to pick the two pictures on a line of five pictures that matched. I used language like "which two look the same" and "made a match" to reinforce the skill. She needed a lot of prompting to analyze the five pictures but then could find the second picture when the first was identified and questioned. We continued working on rhyming with an 8 picture sort of 4 -ock words and 4 -ose words. I provide significant emphasis on the word endings. On RAZ Kids today, Becca echo read "The Ocean" with me. Also on RAZ Kids, we watched a story called "On". We then completed a worksheet in which Becca had to glue the matching picture on the appropriate picture. I then read the start of the sentence and she would help finish it, using the position word "on" to describe where the object was. Finally, she completed a three category sort (fruits, clothes, and farm animals) in which she sorted all 9 pictures independently.
Potty status: I took Becca to the restroom at 9:00 and she went quite a bit, despite arguing about going to the restroom. Around 10:00, I realized she had paused in her activity and I heard her pass gas. I asked her if she needed to go to the bathroom and she replied "no". I asked her if she was pooping and again, "no" was the response. I rushed her to the bathroom anyway, and unfortunately she had pooped in her underwear, but did not urinate. I’m sorry that it got on her shoe and sock. I had to remove her AFOs and they were placed in a separate bag with her clean shoe and sock. She did not go to the bathroom again during our time.