Today Becca greeted me with a "no" and threw herself on the floor. However, she very quickly turned around and gave me lots of "Okay, Miss Debbi" responses. Overall, she was in a very good mood today and we got a lot done! We started with our z-zebra picture pocket. We reviewed the z cards and looked up zebras on the internet and discussed features we saw in the pictures. Becca loves the "Zig Zag" song on the letter z Starfall video. After watching the z video, we then practiced tracing and drawing zig zags on the whiteboard and paper. She really enjoyed this activity and was actively helping with tracing the lines "up, down, up, down". We read the original "Mrs. Wishy-Washy" book by Joy Crowley. We then used a Mrs. Wishy-Washy figure and pictures from the story to do story retell and sequencing. We then read "Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm". Becca helped provide a few more words today. We practiced with prepositions (positional) words today with the little baby doll and a small cardboard box. We used picture cards modeling the positions and practiced putting baby: in, on, under, next to, in front of, and behind the box. Then I'd ask Becca, "Where is Baby?" Becca provided only a few of the positional words in response. Our goal here now is to also expand her verbal use of the positional word and whole phrase. We complete a cut and paste worksheet of pictures and words in the –ap family. Becca had to choose (m,s,n, or c) to make the word match the picture. Becca was very actively engaged in a CVC (with a as the vowel) word building activity on Starfall Learn to Read. In this activity the initial and final consonants change and the word is presented in each sound segment and then blended all together as the word. Becca was really focused on the letters and I heard her quietly say a few of the sounds with the computerized voice. We then used the awesome Slide, See, and Say Flashcards that Mom sent. I gave Becca a word quickly with sound segments only to see if she could name the word (with no picture support). For example in sounds: s-u-n. She named 1 of 4 of them. She was getting tired at this point (around 11:30), so we lessened the intensity of our tasks with read-aloud stories. We enjoyed "Stretch" and "Wiggle" again by Doreen Cronin. We wiggled our different body parts like the dog in the book. We counted items on the pages and discussed qualitative features such as which one is the biggest or the smallest, etc.