Today was another great day! Analise came in ready to LEARN! We started working on the days of the week and learned a song to help remember them all. I did a lower case letter assessment and she knew the following letters; a,b,e,i,m,o,p,q,s,v,x and z. We did a fun cut and glue project for letters Aa-Ff. She cut out the Upper and lower case letters glued the matching pairs together, then she cut out pictures and glued them next to the appropriate letters. She did a great job staying on task and completing her work! We also learned about patterns today. We created several of our own by cutting out different shapes and gluing them to construction paper. She really enjoyed that. To wrap up our day we read about owls and made one of our own! She did an excellent job!!

Today was a great first day! Analise was very happy and comfortable with me, I think we'll be a great match! She was very excited and was ready to begin right away! We read and went through an "All About Me" book that we will be working on together and filling in all the fun pages over the course of the five weeks she will be with me! I did an upper case letter assessment and she knew all except F,T and Y. I read Froggy Learns to Swim to her and together we pointed out all of the letter F's in the story! She did a great job today!!

Analise and I completed a few pages in her book "All About Me" drawing the shape of her nose, coloring in her eye color and hair color, and tracing the size of her hands. Then, Analise completed two phonic worksheets, where she had to identify and pronounce the letters c and d. Analise and I read a story on Clifford the Big Red Dog and she answered comprehension questions throughout the story. Finally, we watched an educational video to go along with the story we read on Clifford from the pbskids.org website.

I assessed Analise testing which lower case letters she could read and identify in the alphabet. Then, we completed two phonics worksheets, where Analise identified the picture shown and underlined the letter a or b in each word. She did excellent with this task and was able to identify each letter in each word with no trouble. Analise and I took a few breaks in between the two hours in order for her to release built up energy that she had from doing school work in the classroom. This seemed to help her stay focused while completing work. Then, Analise explored an educational website called starfall. com. On this website Analise practiced phonics and number identification. Annalise and I read a math story that incorporated number identification. In addition, Analise counted to 50 without any help. Finally, we created a bumble bee out of black and yellow construction paper that represented the letter B, and brainstormed words that began with the letter B.

Analise and Morgan worked together learning about how the dentist is a community helper and the importance of the dentist. In the morning, a dentist came into the school and gave a group presentation for the students, which tied into our lesson on community helpers. We read a story "Franklin and the Tooth Fairy" and the girls answered questions throughout the story. In addition, the girls watched an educational video clip on pbskids.org to go along with the story we read on Franklin.

Analise and I introduced ourselves to each other, then talked about the things we'd be doing in class. I introduced the vowels in Spanish to her, and told her we would be working on "a". We sang a song about an "arana" (itsy bitsy spider) then started to read a book to look for the letter "a". after a few minutes we joined Morgan and read books together with her: the very hungry caterpillar and "brown bear brown bear".