Today's lesson was on counting, reading, and writing 13, 14, and 15, focusing on 14. Libby used base ten cubes to model 14 with one tens stick and 4 ones and colored in pictures of base ten blocks, tens frames, and objects to model 14. Then, she counted groups of 13, 14, or 15 objects and wrote the amounts. Finally, Libby solved subtraction problems by taking away 1 within 10 and she counted to 100 using base ten blocks and her hundreds chart.

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

Libby’s enthusiasm for art was evident from the start. She initially drew a self-portrait of herself drawing, illustrating her passion. She proudly showcased a cardboard dollhouse she had built and eagerly spent the rest of the session crafting clay dolls and miniature clay French fries for it. Libby’s love for sculpting and crafting offers great potential for future projects. Encouraging more detailed miniature designs could further develop her sculptural skills.

Today we combined the obstacle course with Self Defense. Obstacle Course: Roll on the mats, Dodge through the cones, Jump across the tires, hit the bag, and practice the basics of the Martial Arts.

Today's lesson was on counting, reading, and writing 13, 14, and 15 with a focus on 13. Libby used base ten cubes to model 13 with one tens stick and 3 ones and colored in pictures of base ten blocks, tens frames, and objects to model 13. Then, she counted groups of 13, 14, or 15 objects and wrote the amounts. Finally, Libby solved subtraction problems on taking away 1 within 10.

I began with phonological awareness, asking Libby to drop one syllable of a two-syllable word. Next, I conducted visual, auditory and blending drills to strengthen Libby's reading and spelling skills. Regular spelling work focused on CVC words with short -i- (ship, rip, chip, dip, sip, rip). Libby's ability to blend sounds is improving with every session. For irregular spelling I reviewed the following: has, and, the. Libby read a decodable reader from FlyLeaf Publishing. We played a game of Phonics Dice to practice all short vowels. I read several chapters of "Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride."

Practice the short vowels. Use to help decode nonsense words with the short vowels and then practice with short vowel words. Read book and review sight words as we read. Write the sight words down as we find them.

Libby completed her interactive calendar. She read and discussed her vocabulary words. She finished her calendar talk. She worked on her phonics activities. She put together her daily sentence puzzle. She reviewed the life cycle of the ant, the spider, and the bat.

Libby and I practiced some seated meditation and yoga postures: butterfly, staff pose and frog squat.

I began with phonological awareness, Level D1 (Kilpatrick, p. 132), followed by visual, auditory, and blending exercises. Libby blended CVC words more confidently (ship, tip, chip, dip, sip, rip). She was tired, so I took her outside to spell; she wrote the exact words with sidewalk chalk and did a terrific job. She confidently read the irregular words; next session, I will ask her to spell the words. She read a decodable reader tied to the above skills. We played a game of phonics dice to reinforce reading CVC words with all short vowels. To conclude, I read several chapters from Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo.