Today we began our session by creating a poster for "April showers bring May flowers." Becca ripped up pieces of tissue paper and glued them onto a flower layout. She enjoyed creating the flower in this activity and we hung it on her wall! Becca and I completed a lot of our language arts work using the iPad. The iPad is great for Becca because it challenges her fine motor skills and she is fully engaged in the activities. We used the Starfall application on the ipad to work with the -at sound. In addition, we listened to a story called "The Cat and the Rat." After listening to it a few times Becca was able to repeat -at words she heard in the story. We continued our science lesson on animal life cycles and re-read the emergent reader "Butterfly, Butterfly." Then, Becca completed a worksheet where she cut, glued, and colored pictures in order to complete each life cycle such as, butterfly, frog, and chicken life cycles. After, we watched a short educational video from Sesame Street based on the life of a butterfly. Becca and I continued our "Counting Eggs" emergent reader and practiced counting to ten with plastic eggs. Then, Becca sorted picture cards of animals identifying which animal belongs in the zoo or farm category. Finally, we read "Where is the Cow?" and Becca used the farmer to show me the directions in which the farmer looked for the cow in the story. For example, under the barn, on top of the barn, next to the barn, behind the barn, and inside the barn. We had not read this in about a week and she remembered it very well. Becca was great at school today! She was warm, kind, energetic, and on task! We had a fantastic morning!