This morning, Libby and I worked on number bonds and finding the missing addends with sums to 5, 8, and 10. Libby found the missing parts of equations using her fingers and a number line to count forward from the first addend to the sums of 5, 8, or 10, determining the missing part. Then, Libby answered questions from the grade 1 readiness assessment.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk and calendar writing, read and discussed her Scholastic News Magazine about being a lifeguard, put together her daily sentence puzzle, worked on her phonics activities, and learned about the sun, the stars, and the moon.,

Today, we continued with Kate DiCamillo's novel, "Stella Endicott and the Anything is Possible Poem." First, I asked Libby to point to the title, author, and illustrator on the cover. I explained that the author's last name and the title are also on the "spine" of the book. I read chapters three and four while Libby colored the illustrations. We paused to summarize and make predictions, both of which are excellent reading comprehension strategies. The main character is writing a poem for school; I explained what a poem is, and tomorrow I will bring in a book of children's poetry.

Libby was seen in her room for a 45 minute treatment session. Focus of therapy was on re-evaluation, fine motor and graphomotor development. Libby was given the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor-Integration skills. Please see her progress update for test results. Introduced Libby to using a "space girl" to put spaces between words when writing. " Space girl" is a popsicle stick that we made into space girl. Libby understands how to use her. Lastly, Libby participated in a writing task when she made her mother a Mother's day card with her OT. Great session.

We talked about how songs are using music to tell stories. We listened to some songs and talked about the stories they told. We discussed how songs can tell sad, happy, or even funny stories. Then, we played some music on the guitar and made up some lyrics to tell our own stories.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk and calendar writing, worked on her phonics activities, put together her daily sentence puzzle, and learned about the sun.

I conducted visual, auditory, and blending drills with all the letters and digraphs that had been learned. Libby is close to mastery, stumbling only on the digraphs. For regular spelling, I dictated words with short a and a sentence for her to write and edit. Christina's suggestion of using "Space Girl" (a decorated popsicle stick to help her space her words properly) is beneficial. Libby read all of the words in her irregular word deck with confidence. I introduced the digraph "wh" and the irregular word "what." We made a tactile "what" card to add to her deck. To conclude, Libby read a decodable reader from FlyLeaf Publishing.

I worked with Libby to create stairs for her 3d house.

This morning, Libby and I reviewed the doubles facts and friends of 10 addition strategies. Then, she worked on ordering numbers in groups of 10 up to 30 from least to greatest and comparing numbers up to 20. Finally, Libby began answering questions from the grade 1 readiness assessment.

Libby and I read books about the following social-emotional skills: overdoing it, complaining, being messy and being forgetful. We discussed how to avoid these negative behaviors and how to replace them with positive ones.