We began our session today by reading a fun winter book, Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner, which has the snowmen sneaking off at night to participate in such fun events as sledding, racing down the hill, and even playing a baseball game! We identified the rhyming words and searched for hidden pictures on the pages. Next, Gracyn read a level one reader entitled, Merry Christmas Bugs! by David A. Carter. She did a great job with this tricky book. We talked about how the pictures help give us clues and also thinking about the topic as to what language we might find when trying to read challenging words. We also learned more about the characters by discussing their actions and how they looked in the illustrations. Finally, we ended our day with practice of the Dolch primer sight words with ZAP!