This morning we read a fun book called, When I Grow Up by Mike Berenstain. Brother and Sister Bear go on a Bear Country job tour. From firefighter to artist and farmer to astronaut - there are so many careers to explore! We reviewed our materials on responsibility. As we worked through the assessment, we continued to work on expanding his language skills from just "be nice" and "be helpful" to provide more specific details. We talked about ways to work out problems including voting, sharing, and taking turns. We matched pictures of community helpers to match their job descriptions. We completed a fill in the blank sentence, "A (firefighter) is responsible for (putting out fires)." Today I put more of the demand for sounding out and writing the words on Danny. This is taking a step up the difficulty ladder to aid him in gaining more ownership of progressing his knowledge and use of sounds. Danny drew a picture of a firefighter. He scored a 11/12 on this assessment. In continuing our discussion on qualities that make good citizens, we read the book, Courage, by Bernard Waber. We read about people facing various situations that require courage. Courage is needed for the simple things like trying a new vegetable without making a yucky face or introducing yourself to someone new, to the more challenging things like sleeping without a nightlight or jumping off the high diving board. We colored and added the flip character for courage to Danny's interactive notebook. The sentence we added about courage was about, "Being brave and trying new things."