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.

I began with phonological awareness, Level D1 (Kilpatrick, p. 132) followed by visual, auditory, and blending exercises. Libby blended CVC words with greater confidence (pet, let, mat, pat) and spelled the same words with assistance. Today she successfully read the irregular words and, the, has. She read a decodable reader tied to the above skills. To conclude, I read several chapters from Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo.

Libby and I read a book in Spanish from the Elephant and Pig series.

Recall Pete the Cat before rereading together. As we read, model and practice sounding out short words. Practice writing the words on the white board. Go back and point out the sight words. Use decoding workbook to practice decoding words on their own with the short i.

Libby reviewed the numbers 11 and 12, writing them as numerals and in word form. We used base ten blocks to model the numbers as one group of 10 and some more ones. Then, we worked on the number 13 with Libby coloring base ten blocks, tens frames, and objects to model the number. Next, Libby completed timed math drills on subtracting 1 and completed cumulative review questions on the numbers 0 through 5.

Practice saying letter sounds on word card practice booklet. Read Pete the Cat and point out common sight words to practice. After reading, practice writing the words. Practice decoding words.

Libby learned how to draw teddy bears and kittens.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk, worked on her phonics activities, put together her daily sentence puzzle, and learned what a marine biologist does.

Painting by numbers a Teddy bear called "Honey"

Goal: you are not limited by the lines.