Today we filled our day with animals. We started with the book she brought called "Clifford Visits the Zoo". We then read a nonfiction book called "Xtreme Pets: Cats". We discussed features of the cats in the pictures. We then colored and assembled a paper bag cat puppet. We watched "Pets" on RAZ Kids and letter p on Starfall. Becca then did an awesome job on a picture discrimination worksheet of what starts with p and does not start with p. We read a Kittens foam puzzle book in which she found the puzzle piece that matched the words in the story. We enjoyed the rhyming story "Llama Llama and the Bully Goat". On RAZ Kids, we listened to the story called "The Ocean" which names things we see in The Ocean. Becca had seen this story quite a few times already. It took her four viewings to name three objects she saw from the story. I helped her name a fourth item in our fifth viewing. We will try this again to work on recall from text.
During snack (we eat in the room so she can take her out of the room time to explore with peers on the playground) we watched some rhyming videos including "The Big Pig Song". We then completed some -ig word families in a little booklet (words: twig, pig, big, wig, fig, and dig). Becca identified the picture by name for 5/6 of them, and did not know twig. On another sheet, she named the -ig picture and the starting sound for the word 4 of 4. She also made -ig words by finding the starting letters on Starfall learn to read. Because she did so well with -ig, we completed a word sort using -it vs. -in picture with words cards (CVC words like pin, sit, bin, etc.). I gave a lot of emphasis on the word endings and Becca sorted 6 of 8 correctly. We read her emergent reader "Counting Butterflies", still with inconsistent counting. We added another emergent reader called "The Baker" to our collection. Finally, we worked on a category sort, this time adding a "does not belong" component. We used cards that she has seen before. I presented sorting mats for jungle animals, clothing, and vehicles. In addition to those designated items, I included a picture of a banana and a pizza to see if she would indicate in some way they did not belong. She tried to just put them on the cards, even though there are designated places to put cards, she tried to squeeze them in. She actually gave the banana picture to the monkey picture. (How cute is that?!) We talked about how those two pictures "do not belong" with the others and reinforced that language. We continue to work on negation and differences throughout various activities. Becca has been doing a nice job with saying hi and bye to peers and staff with less cueing and less physical contact. Unfortunately her greeting for me over the past week has been “no” each day.
Potty Status: She asked to go around 11:50 and did produce.