Libby asked to recreate a purple cow character her dad had asked her to make out of clay. She used a picture to recreate the model using a polymer clay medium. Libby was encouraged to try to recreate the horns but grew frustrated and requested assistance because it wasn't "perfect." She was encouraged to try her best and apply her best effort, but was afforded guiance and tips to facilitate her efforts.

Libby worked on a few activities involving shape identification. She was tasked with using scissors to cut out different shapes (e.g.; cube, cylinder) and place them on a flower stem. It was a hands-on cut and paste 3D shape sorting craft and Libby matched 30 shapes correctly to the stem of the flower. She also drew objects beneath each solid figure that had the same shape. Libby followed directions well.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk, put together her daily sentence puzzle, worked on her phonics activities using short a, and made her bunny box.

I subbed in Libby's Spanish class today.

This morning, Libby worked on a fun shape drawing activity with 2-D and 3-D shapes. First, Libby worked on 2-D silly people art, making each body part a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, or hexagon. Then, we made a chart of the 3-D shapes: sphere, cube, cone, and cylinder. Libby practiced drawing the shape in 3-D before drawing that shape in a real-world object.

Today, Libby and I focused on the hexagon. She completed the lesson on how to describe and identify hexagons, recognizing hexagons in real-world objects and amongst other shapes. Then, we reviewed the names of the 3-D shapes: sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder. Libby finished with a fluency practice on adding and subtracting within 5.

Prepare a batch on miniature apple pies

I was late today for an unexpected pet emergency; Libby had 20 extra minutes with the occupational therapist, Christina. In the remaining 25 minutes, we accomplished the following: I conducted visual, auditory, and blending exercises. Using manipulative letters, Libby builds CVC words and substitutes the vowels as directed to make new words (usually she substitutes the initial sound; this was a significant change for her). I dictated five CVC words for Libby to spell and write. I taught her to "tap and sound out" as she wrote. We went outside and sequenced the alphabet while bouncing a ball. Libby is close to mastery in this skill. To conclude, Libby read a decodable reader from FlyLeaf Publishing, "To the Top."

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk activity, put together and read her daily sentence puzzle, worked on her phonics activity pertaining to CVC words with the short sound of a, made her weather predictions for the week, and learned more about how a meteorologist uses weather tools to
forecast the weather.

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