Today we reviewed our "Three Little Pigs" emergent reader. We then used some new color cards to associate items in the story to the characters. Becca then did a matching activity of pictures of items from the story. We watched "The Planet Song" to get us in the mood for our solar system project. It was so sweet to hear Becca singing some of the words with the song. We reviewed our "The Solar System" reader. We then cut out colorful pictures of the planets and made a poster with the sun and planets in order. We hung our "The Solar System" poster in Becca's room. For our word families studies today, Becca sorted pictures of words that end in -ad and -ap based on auditory discrimination of the ending sounds. She also created -ig words on Starfall Learn to Read. We practiced some initial sound identification with our magnet letter search activity. We watched "The Garden" on RAZ Kids and after her third viewing, Becca was able to name all four foods that grow in the garden requested. That is an improvement to the number of times she usually needs to view a story for recall of details. I think she may have even done better, but she wasn't overly focused the first time she watched the story. Becca drew some with marker today as a free choice activity. She drew all types of wiggly lines. We later traced the same pre-writing lines (help the piggy get to his house) as yesterday and she did one of them independently! We ended the day with some play-doh time. We made snakes, cut circles using the container, and counted the balls we rolled. I would estimate over the past 5+ school days, Becca has shown growth and maturity in her role as a student. She has been demonstrating more compliant behaviors and rarely is saying “no” to tasks. She has been greeting me more neutrally and not yelling “no”. She has been able to perform activities longer, needing less encouragement, task completion rewards, and breaks. Additionally, in general she is responding more quickly the first time she is told something (as opposed to needing multiple directives). We continue to work on using her big girl voice and using her words to meet her needs. *Extra copies of both readers are in her backpack.