I started today's lesson with an Alphabet Assessment Checklist. I asked Nicholas to identify all capital letters and to tell me the sound for all letters except e, i, o, and u. Although we have not studied all the sounds, I wanted to see what he may know from his regular school day. We then moved on to a review of the letters and sounds we have studied. We then looked at "Kk" and /k/, noting that it makes the same sound as (hard) "C." We watched a short video of "The Song Kookaburra." I printed this out and Nicholas highlighted all the "K"s and "k"s he saw. We looked at the letter "Mm" and the sound /m/... "mmmmm," as when something tastes delicious! Nicholas then drew a "treasure map" and sounded out the word "map." He printed this on his drawing. He watched a short video of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?" He then took the printed version and highlighted all the "M"s. He remarked that there were no small "m"s in the text. He was right!