Santino arrived to program in good spirits but slightly tired from an active morning and the car ride to school - as per mom's comments. He complied with my request to follow me to the classroom, accompanied by the dancing musical reindeer which he enjoyed interacting with during the last session. Santino experimented by placing the reindeer in several positions and locations in the room, table, and floor, and viewing it from different angles and vantage points. When encouraged, to replicate the movements,via teacher demonstration, Santino did make an effort to follow the verbal and physical prompts afforded him. He pressed the reindeer's paw repeatedly to activate the song and dance and, at one point, held its legs and moved them in the correct corresponding manner in which it was programmed. Santino enjoyed this activity and came to me on three separate occasions, pulled himself close to me to increase contact, while maintaining eye contact. This is not a common behavior for Santino, but I was delighted to see him initiate it and recipricated an appropriate affective response in turn. It may be indicative of a heightened level of comfort and and contentedness in Santino, commensurate with a greater feeling of safety and/or trust, and increased familiarity/adjustment to program and expectations; however, as mentioned, the behavior was reciprocated with a smile and a hug to reinforce the positive connection. The next activity involved listening to a song about colors and fruits while pairing them up with corresponding plastic colored fruit item equivalents (yellow pineapple, for example). The objective here was to have Santino listen to, retrieve, and imitate speech and spoken language (Florida State Standard SP.PK12.SA.7.1). While outcomes on this activity were not as successful as having him repeat the movements in the earlier activity with the toy reindeer, both will continue to be addressed in future sessions. Santino did not show any indication that he wanted to eat any of the snacks I had left out for him today. However, he did make correct motions to bring a cup of water to his lips and drank a sip, but he then brought the cup to his upper lip to drink and in so doing spilled some and was not able to drink more. Efforts to model appropriate drinking techniques will be addressed in future sessions.