Becca and I began our session by discussing the letter J and the sound J makes. I introduced Becca to our letter art craft of the day, which was Jj stands for Jellyfish. Becca allowed me to place pink paint onto her hands in order to make her handprints on construction paper. The palm of her hand represents the head of the jellyfish and her fingers represent the tentacles of the jellyfish. Then, we cut out the letter J and glued the jellyfish hand prints to the top of the letter J. After the paint dried we hung our letter craft on her wall. She did a wonderful job with this activity listening very carefully to the directions given. Becca completed a worksheet on the letter J coloring the pictures that began with J. In addition, Becca completed a worksheet drawing lines to show how jet planes fly tracing straight and curvy lines. Then, Becca and I completed a cut and paste activity creating a Busy J Book. Becca cut out pictures that began with the J sound and glued them in to complete our J Book. To help with Becca's fine motor skill development she traced vertical dotted lines in a picture of humpty dumpty. Then, she colored the picture. Using the iPad, Becca and I watched a quick video of the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." After, Becca completed another tracing activity with wavy dotted lines and colored the ocean picture. After coloring the fish, Becca watched an educational video on brainpopjr.com about fish. We continued to practiced letter formation using letter C and D manipulatives to trace the formation of each letter with her pointer finger. Using a pencil, Becca traced the letter C and D with hand over hand assistance. Becca was in a great mood and had a very productive day!

Today, Becca and I began our session by tracing dotted lines on worksheets, long, short, and curvy lines. I am trying to give Becca the opportunity to control the pencil and strengthen her pincer grip. Tracing is good practice for fine motor skills, hand/eye coordination, and helps with learning to write upper and lower case letters as well as numbers. First, Becca traced the pattern with her dominant pointer finger a few times and I reminded Becca to look down at the paper as she did it. Then, using the pencil with hand over hand assistance Becca traced the dotted lines. After, Becca used letters A and B manipulatives to help her learn the formation of the these letters. She used her pointer finger to trace the letter in the correct direction. Then, using a pencil we traced upper case letters A and B. She did a great job with this! During art, Becca painted a picture of a fish in the ocean. She did a wonderful job not mixing the colors and following directions. After the painting dried we hung it up on her wall. Becca and I reviewed counting 1-10 and traced each number first with her pointer finger then using a pencil. Finally, read the story "Where is Bear?" by Dr. Suess and discussed the main ideas of the book.

I love Becca's new haircut! We began our session using a letter C manipulative in order for Becca to feel the formation of the letter with her pointer finger. She practiced doing this a few times and tracing the letter C in the air with her pointer finger. Then, we used the pencil to trace (hand over hand assistance) upper and lowercase C. Also, we reviewed the sound C makes and Becca told me that C stands for cat. I introduced Becca to our craft activity, which was a cat puppet. We looked up pictures of kitty cats and Becca decided to make her puppet orange. Becca colored the ears, paws, tail, nose, and eyes of the cat puppet. Then, with assistance Becca glued on the parts of the cat to a brown paper bag. It turned out so cute! Becca completed a worksheet practicing beginning sounds. She joined each letter on the worksheet to the picture with the same beginning sound by drawing lines with a pencil. Becca and I read the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." Then, she colored a picture of Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall. Becca was able to recall words from the nursery rhyme after listening to it a few times. During science, Becca watched an educational video from brainpopjr.com on the life cycle of frogs. Then, she completed a cut and paste activity putting pictures of the life cycle of a frog in the correct order. We discussed that frogs lay eggs, which hatch into tadpoles. The tadpoles grow legs and develop lungs turning into an adult frog. During counting, Becca reviewed counting to ten and completed a worksheet on tracing numbers 1-10. Becca asked to use the potty today to go poop and chose from the treasure chest. Yay Becca! She did a great job today! I am very proud of how well she is doing!

Becca and I began our session by creating -an words. Becca cut out the letters to create the words and matched the -an words to each picture. She identified each picture then found the correct beginning letter for each. Then, she completed another worksheet where she joined each letter to the picture with the same beginning sound connecting the letter to the picture by drawing lines to each. After, Becca completed a cut and paste activity involving beginning sounds. She cut out the letters and glued the correct beginning sound to match the picture. Becca and I continued to practice letter formation for letters A and B both upper and lowercase letters. Becca used letter manipulatives to practice tracing the letter with her finger as well as repeating the direction out loud. After, a lot of practice with tracing with her pointer finger we then moved onto tracing the letters with a pencil. Becca needs a lot of help with tracing the letters so we practice tracing with hand over hand assistance. Becca and I watched an educational counting song on the iPad and reviewed counting to ten. In addition, she completed a cut and paste worksheet on the number 5. During music, Becca and I used instruments such as the tambourin, bells, morocco, and triangle. She enjoys playing these instruments and listening to the sound that each instrument makes. Becca seemed a little tired today and was not using her words to communicate as much as she usually does.

Becca and I began our session by reviewing beginning, middle, and end sounds. First, we reviewed beginning sounds and Becca matched each letter to the picture with the same beginning sound. For example, F matches the picture of a fish. Next, Becca completed a worksheet on middle sounds cutting out the letters that belong to each picture to create the middle sound. Then, Becca and I completed an activity on short I with the end sounds it/in. Becca cut and glued the correct picture to the correct ending sound. She did a great job with these activities. In addition, she is becoming very familiar with the use of scissors and does not need as much assistance when cutting. During our session, I introduced Becca to alphabet letters to assist her with handwriting. She runs her pointer finger along the letter following the correct direction in order for Becca to learn how to write the letters of the alphabet. Then, we practiced tracing the letters A and B. During math, Becca completed a cut and paste worksheet on the number four. In addition, she reviewed counting by completing an activity where Becca counted pictures of animals and matched the correct number to each animal. Finally, Becca completed a worksheet on counting cupcakes and matching the correct number to each box of cupcakes. We ended our session by tracing letters with her finger using a "Princess Letter Tracing Book." We will continue with this tomorrow during our session.

Becca and I began our session by creating a book of words that end in -at. Becca cut out letters to create words for the pictures in the book, such as mat, rat, cat, bat, and hat. Becca identified the pictures and letters to create each word. Then, she glued the letters and pictures into the book. In addition, she colored each picture. Becca and I completed a lot of work on the letter H today. She identified the letter H upper and lowercase, the sound the letter H makes, and words that begin with H. Also, she used the starfall application to interact and complete the letter H. She completed a worksheet where she said the name of each picture beginning with the letter H, listen for the H sound, and colored the pictures. Then, she practiced tracing the letter H both upper and lowercase letters. Becca and I assembled an emergent reader for the "Letter H Book." This book identifies words that begin with the letter H and emphasizes the sound the letter makes. During science, Becca and I discussed animal habitats and where animals live. After, Becca completed a worksheet drawing lines (with hand over hand assistance) from the animal to the correct place that they live. Using flashcards, Becca and I practiced prepositional words, such as under, next to, behind, between, in front of, and more. She did a wonderful job with this! We finished our day with a counting activity and Becca completed a worksheet on the number three. We had a very productive day full of learning!

Becca was in a great mood this morning! She was excited about sleeping over Nana's last night! We began our session by completing two pages in Becca's "All About Me" book. Then, we completed a worksheet where Becca identified the -at pictures such as cat, rat, mat, and hat. After, Becca cut out the letters to build each -at word. She cut and glued the letters onto the worksheet. Last week, Becca and I began the story of "Hansel and Gretel." We continued this story today and Becca's re call of the story was very accurate. Together, we read the emergent reader to go along with the story and watched a short video of "Hansel and Gretel" on the iPad. With my assistance Becca cut out pictures to match the correct number during a counting activity and glued the pictures to the correct number word. In addition, Becca traced each number from 1-10 and the number words. Becca and I read a beginning reader story from Dr. Seuss titled "Where is Bear?" We read the story through twice and Becca was able to re call events in the story. We began our letter G unit and Becca completed the letter G on the starfall application. We discussed what sound the letter G makes and words that begin with the letter G. Also, Becca painted a picture of a giraffe, which we will hang up on her wall once it dries.. She did a wonderful job with this and followed directions very well. The directions were to only paint the giraffe's spots brown instead of the entire picture. She really enjoyed this activity! Becca chose from the treasure chest today because she asked to use the potty! So proud of her!

During our session Becca and I completed a unit on the letter F. First, we colored a picture of fish. Becca completed a capital and lowercase sorter on the letter F. Then, she completed an emergent reader called "Let's Learn the Letter Ff" where she cut, colored, and glued objects that began with the letter F into the reader. In addition, she traced words that began with F with hand over hand assistance. Becca is improving with the use of scissors and seems to be getting a better feel for opening and closing the scissors. In addition, she is also improving her coloring skills by coloring the object instead of the entire paper. Becca completed a beginning F sound sorter where she cut out pictures and glued the pictures onto the sorter that began with the letter F. Becca and I read a story on Hickory, Dickory, Dock and she assembled a picture of a mouse. We cut out shapes to create the mouse and Becca identified each shape as we assembled the mouse. We hung this up on Becca's wall. Finally, Becca completed a sorter on the -at sound. She glued pictures that belonged in the -at word family and into the correct box on the sorter. Becca had a great day! She was on task and focused, therefore we were able to complete a lot of work.

Becca and I began our session by coloring a picture of fish. We completed the letter F today, what sound F makes, and words that being with F. Then, we listened to a story called "The Ocean" on Razkids.com. After listening to it a few times through Becca was able to recall words from the story. Today I tried introducing the days of the week to Becca. I sang the "Days of the Week" song to her and we discussed that today is Wednesday. I plan on adding this to our morning routine to get Becca familiar with the days of the week. She did an excellent job counting to ten today! She was able to tell me which number comes next when counting to ten. Becca and I completed a worksheet on the number 2 as well. I introduced the story of Hansel and Gretel to Becca today. We read a short sight word reader on the story with an emphasis on the sight words a, the, see, I, look. Then, Becca watched a video of the story of Hansel and Gretel on the iPad. We will continue to work on the recall of the story. Becca completed two more pages in her "All About Me" mini book. Finally, Becca used the starfall application on the iPad to complete phonic activities. Becca seemed tired today. It was hard for her to stay focused on tasks and was not her energetic self. She completely lost focus around 11am and seemed to be done for the day. During this time I used the starfall application on the iPad to keep her engaged and working.

Today Becca and I began our session by completing a letter D activity. Becca identified the letter D and the sound D makes. In addition, we discussed words that begin with the letter D. We made a baby dinosaur coming out of a egg using construction paper. After assembling the baby dinosaur, Becca used foam stars, gems, pom poms, and stickers to decorate the outside of the egg shell. Then, I introduced a fun song to go along with the dinosaur craft. We hung the song and the baby dinosaur on Becca's wall. Becca and I completed a math worksheet on the number one. First, Becca traced her name with hand over hand assistance. Then, she colored, cut, and glued the number one in number form, word form, and a picture of a dice with one dot on it. I used manipulatives to show Becca the number one. Becca and I read the story "Pout-Pout Fish" and discussed the different sea creatures in the story. We discussed where fish live and what they need to survive. During snack, Becca watched a video from the Magic School Bus "Take a Dive", which is about the coral reef. She really enjoyed this! We are creating a book called "All About Me" that includes ten pages about Becca; her favorite color, her family, school, where she lives etc. Today we completed two of the pages in the book. Becca traced her name with assistance and colored a picture of what she looks like. Also, she traced the word "six" and colored a picture of a birthday cake. Becca wanted Noah to have one as well, so I put an "All About Me" book in her folder to take home to give to Noah. I thought that was very thoughtful of Becca to think of her brother! We had a very productive day today!