Today's session began by reading a book about identifying animals and the sounds they make. I had taken a few library books out of the library, and Laina and Gabriela asked to read the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Bill Martin Jr. Both girls enjoyed making the sounds of the different animals, and they also acted out a few. They were asked to pay attention to the likenesses and differences in sounds as a means by which to enhance their auditory discriminatory abilities, and then they described illustrations and talked about the actions, matching the animals to sentences which described the animals' physical characteristics (ie; "which animals have two legs/four;..."which may be found in trees/on the ground"..."which has blue feathers?", etc). We then moved on to identifying shapes. Laina and Gabriela named 4 basic shapes and identified them by pointing to objects in the room. They also counted by rote, alternating between the three of us to improve listening and focusing skills. Next, the girls enjoyed learning two songs and helped insert the proper lyrics when and where appropriate. We also replicated a finger-play activity that we learned a few sessions ago and that they enjoyed, and both girls remembered it accurately. The next part of the session involved a hands-on matching exercise. The girls used Lego blocks to build and compare objects with regard to color, form, and size ("put all the red rectangle blocks in the red container"; "how can we try to figure out how to connect the shapes to make a bridge?"). For the remaining 10 minutes of the session, Laina visited her sister, Analise, in the next room while Gabriella used pink paint to create a picture, and stickers, provided by Ms. Judie, with which to embellish the body outline picture of herself and Laina created one in an earlier session. Laina became engaged in this activity at the conclusion of the 120 minute session.