Today we started with "The Three Little Pigs" story. We then assembled an emergent reader of the story and did a picture card story recall task. We watched our video "The Big Pig Song" featuring big, pig, wig, jig, fig, and dig. Becca and I then recalled the words from the song and wrote them on the wipeboard. Since each word starts with a different letter, I asked Becca to find each word with the focus of the initial sound/letter. She found half of the words. We enjoyed a funny alternate version of the "Three Little Pigs" story called "10 Little Pigs" by Hooked on Phonics which produces "i" vowel words. We practiced with a prewriting tracing worksheet helping the pig get to his house. We did this in a sheet protector with dry erase marker to allow for repeated use. These are just straight simple lines and Becca continued to scribble wiggly lines. She does improve with hand over hand assistance. We also started an emergent reader using color words for a brick house. Each page reads “The brick house is (color word)” for reading and verbal skills practice. We also reviewed other emergent readers we have completed in the past. We watched the starfall video for “p” and then completed a discrimination worksheet on items that start with “p” and words that do not. We traced Pp for those that do. We completed a rhyming cut-and-paste worksheet in which Becca had to match the rhyming pictures. She was presented with 2 choices and got half of them correct. She is doing well with the rhyming activities, but still needs a lot of verbal emphasis by the speaker to focus on the sounds. She then identified the starting letter of the picture and got 5/6 correct. Becca has shown a growth in her interest of the Starfall Learn to Read program. She is building words by adding the first letter in a CVC format with picture. She needs additional support from me at times to emphasize and repeat the starting sounds. She’s gained interest in the word factory portion which keeps the vowel but will change the first and last sounds of the CVC words. The program sounds out the word and then blends it together and uses pictorial support. I am encouraging Becca to repeat the sounds and words as she hears them, but at this point her productions are very limited. We enjoyed “The Planet Song” video today and then read a book called “Planets Around the Sun”. We then colored and assembled an emergent reader called “Solar System”. We ended our day with a wooden block horse string lacing activity. Not only is this a great fine motor activity, it provides for opportunities in following directions, understanding positional words, and using two hands to complete tasks. **I apologize for the wet shorts and underwear in Becca's backpack. I followed her up the stairs on the playground to make sure she got settled on the "swirly slide" safely and then went down to meet her at the bottom. Unfortunately there was a huge muddy puddle at the bottom of the slide that Becca slid right into. I apologize for the mess! It worked out well that we had clean underwear and shorts to put on.