Richard enjoyed listening to the first two chapters of 'Mouse Soup'. Focus was on characters, sequence, genre and print elements. He had fun writing in his journal about a trick he might play involving his 'baby brother'. We continue to practice onset fluency, isolating medial sounds and substituting, adding and deleting phonemes. He completed the color an l-blend activity. Richard practiced using the counting up strategy when solving one-digit subtraction problems. Days of the week, months of the year and skip counting by tens were all reviewed. Richard learned that halves must have two equal parts. He practiced identifying halves of pictures and sets.

Richard was tasked with writing the capital letter stated. He did well coloring pictures by beginning l-blend sound. Sight words were reviewed. Richard enjoyed spelling the name of the picture shown and matching words to pictures online. Given a picture, Richard identified given solid shapes within the scene. Manipulatives and pictures were utilized to illustrate equal parts. Richard did well identifying the pictures and sets with equal parts. He completed a spiral review of previously learned skills. With the last few minutes, Richard completed patterns online.

Richard read 'Sam and Nan', a book that uses one syllable, short vowel words and sight words. He benefits from encouragement to read the words rather than guess based on the pictures. We continue to practice rhyme production, onset fluency, isolating medial sounds, and adding and substituting initial phonemes. After listening to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', Richard put pictures of the story in the correct sequence. He did well with reviews on telling time to the hour, identifying solid shapes and calendar skills.

Richard did well matching consonant, vowel, consonant words with the pictures they named. He enjoyed a Valentine's Day craft that involved cutting and gluing. Richard was tasked with drawing a picture and writing about something he loved. Given a bag of candy hearts with varying amounts of colors, Richard sorted candy hearts by color and then graphed the numbers of the various colors. Additionally, he wrote tally marks for the different colors.

Richard worked hard to circle the r-blend word that named the picture. He did well drawing conclusions from given scenarios. The letters v and w were practiced with attention given to sizing of the letters. Richard completed a solid shape assessment. We worked on using the 'count up' strategy when subtracting one digit numbers. Using a chart, Richard was able to recite the months of the year without any help.

Richard practiced s-blends, rhyme production, onset fluency, isolating medial sounds and adding and substituting initial phonemes. He enjoyed listening to 'The Nutty Nut Chase'. Print and plot elements were identified and discussed. Richard did well on sentence and number dictation. He drew a picture and wrote a sentence about a food he likes. Richard matched solid figure flat surfaces to the correct 2D shapes. He counted to 100! We continue to practice reciting the months of the year.

R-blends were introduced. Richard was tasked with identifying the pictures with the same r blend. Given pictures of pizza being made, Richard was tasked with putting the pictures in the correct sequence and using time-order words to described the pizza making process. He did well reading a book that included short vowels, one-syllable words and sight words. Richard worked with manipulatives and pictures to identify the flat surface shapes of solid shapes. We practiced adding and subtracting using flashcards. Richard did very well telling time to the hour.

Richard enjoyed listening to the book, 'The Snowy Day'. Print and plot elements were discussed. Richard drew a picture of himself playing in the snow and wrote a sentence describing his picture. He did well circling the l-blend word that named the picture. Richard practiced rhyme production, onset fluency, isolating medial sounds and adding and substituting phonemes. Sight words and identifying numbers 0-100 were practiced. Richard completed a mixed addition and subtraction activity where he was encouraged to pay attention to the signs. He used the solid figure manipulatives to complete a chart illustrating whether shapes rolled, stacked and or slid.

Richard enjoyed and was intrigued manipulating solid shapes to see which ones slid, rolled and stacked. He tried many combinations with different amounts of force. We played a game of addition Connect Four, an activity that fosters the 'counting on' strategy. We continue to practice calendar skills and l-blends and blending sounds.

Richard did well identifing the initial l-blend in given pictures. He read a story that included sight words and one syllable, short vowel words. After reading each sight word, Richard was asked to use the word in a sentence. He enjoyed following 2-step, oral directions. Richard did well stating the days of the week, counting by tens and completing shape patterns. He confidently identified which solid figure did not belong in a group of figures. Additionally, Richard was tasked with writing the stated numbers.