Today was W day! We started with a w-walrus pictures pocket. We reviewed the w pictures. We also looked up walrus on the Internet, discussed features, and wrote facts on our walrus for ongoing discussion. We watched the w video on Starfall.com. We then watched "Water" and "We Build" on RAZ Kids. We completed an initial sound discrimination activity in which she had to determine if the word started with W or not. She labeled all 6 correctly! She then required a lot of help tracing the w letters. We watched the RAZ Kids story on "Winter" again to reinforce learning of items that go with winter. We read the cute story of "Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm" and how all of the animals got dirty in the mud. We started to color an emergent reader called "Who Is In the Tub?" We looked at pictures of the circus online and then completed a cut and paste worksheet looking at items that belong in the circus. We read a rhyming book called "Llama Llama Red Pajama". Llama Llama was sad and missing his Mama after being tucked in at night. We then did an activity listening to words with -en and -ed endings and sorted them. These are challenging words. We also explored the -en endings on Starfall Learn to Read. Becca enjoyed some learning songs about shapes, numbers, planets, and colors while she ate her snack.
Potty: She finally reached a point around 10:45 where she was holding herself non-stop and wiggling around. She denied that she needed to go to the bathroom, but I felt like it was reaching a point that she just needed to be taken. She did go as soon as she sat down on the toilet.