Today Loulie chose for me to sing our alphabet song as she performed the actions. Afterwards we walked the alphabet line, pointing to each letter as we named it. We played a matching puzzle for opposites and we threw the jumbo number dice, calling out number names as they landed. Loulie also worked on her scissor skills by cutting out a picture puzzle and gluing the pieces together.

We began our session singing and dancing to our alphabet song, she's quite a creative interpretive dancer! Loulie used her pink pointer to find letters that I named. We read 'My Dog' together, with Loulie pointing to the words as we went along. Of course, I read each page first and she read along for the second time. She is able to identify and recall repeated patterns in text, readily. She also built number towers for the numbers 1-20 and arranged them in order from least to greatest.

Loulie and I began our session with the story 'Seven Blind Mice'. We used the illustrations to help us infer and predict what the unidentified 'something' was in the story. Loulie figured things out very quickly! We played a math game that required recognizing, naming and demonstrating numbers to 18. We practiced one to one correspondence in touching alphabet letters while singing 'Alligators All Around'. While she ate a bit of her snack, we read 'If You Give a Dog a Donut', stopping to make predictions along the way.

Loulie and I began the session with going over the routine, including singing the alphabet song. Months of the Years, days of the week, today's date & weather.

Loulie practiced differentiation of capital/lower case letters of the alphabet including going over the phonetic sounds of each letter. We emphasized the session on the phonetic sound of A, by reading an instructional book (Mis Amigos) that invited us to practice basic Spanish verbs such as jump, hide, walk, eat, and read. Loulie created a craft of a paper fan, (Abanico) with cutting, gluing ad folding.

Today we read a book: Un Tipo Muy Grande Se Llevo Mi Pelota. We did a drawing about the pictures and sang a song: La Araña Pequeñita. In addition, we did a short exercise on the recognition of vowels and their sounds.

Loulie was such a delight to work with today. She is so happy, listens well, and is very polite. We began with a fun counting song using the numbers 1 - 20 where we were able to dance and count. Then, using a palm tree picture with the numbers 1 - 20 in coconuts, I called out the numbers and Loulie used an ink dotter to cover the number. Once again, using the ink dotter, Loulie made 10 hungry caterpillars. Each caterpillar's body grew by 1 dot all the way up to 10. Finally, Loulie practiced writing the numbers 1 - 9 by tracing them.

Loulie was absent today. We would have continued working on science skills.

Loulie began with a review of her five senses and why they are important in science. She did an activity where she was given a picture of a kitten and had to paste each sense (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and paws) in the correct place and describe how the kitten used each sense. We also began discussing science skills such as observing, sorting, measuring, and comparing. She did a sorting activity with different sizes, colors, and spots on ladybugs and had to sort the ladybugs each different way. After she sorted, she pasted her sorts on mats. We discussed how we could find similarities in many different ways.

Loulie and I created a colorful tissue paper outline of her name as she ate her snack. We sang Alligators All Around as we pointed to each letter of the alphabet on her wall. We used magnet alphabet letters to play hide and seek with the letters and she used her pink pointing finger to point to the letters that name provided sounds. We used Skittles to create patterns aa bb cc, abc,ab The c,abc, and a,bb, ccc. She used the number chart to count to 30, still working on one to one correspondence. Our story today was 'Who Wants Henry?' Loulie provided words that occurred in a repeating pattern (which she identified and questioned) as we read. We talked about what the author wanted us to learn from the story and she readily piped up with the idea of being yourself!

Today Loulie baked an amazing batch of Hershey’s Secret Kisses Cookies. She measured and added all the ingredients to the mixer. Once the ingredients were well blended she was ready for the next step. Loulie opened and counted each Hershey Kiss. Next, she shaped the dough around the chocolate. Loulie counted all 12 cookies and we discussed how 12 equals one dozen. We baked the cookies for 11 minutes. We finished class with Loulie handing the cookies out to her friends.