I began with a phonological awareness exercise, asking Libby to listen to a compound word and drop one syllable. This is difficult for Libby without manipulatives; I used felt squares to represent each syllable and she was able to complete the task. Next, I conducted visual, auditory, and blending drills. These exercises will help Libby voice and write the letters and blend CVC words. For spelling, we revisited Libby's sight word list compiled by Dr. Val. We created a sensory card for "and" using sand and glue for Libby to trace with her finger (sensory input often helps students learn words). To conclude, I read a Mo Willems book, "Waiting is Hard!"

Today, we continued with the concept of subtraction. Libby tossed connecting cubes into a bucket to show the whole amount and then removed some of the cubes to show taking away. Then, Libby listened to stories, looked at their correlating pictures, marked Xs on the amount taken away, and wrote the number to show how many were left.

Today, Libby and Teddy played some different tag games.
We started by doing a couple of laps around the field.
We then played a variety of tag games.
We then came back inside and played some different games.

Colored Sculpy beads

Libby was seen in her room for a 45-minute treatment session with the focus of therapy on fine motor skills specifically grasp patterns, ocular motor skills (saccades), self care skills, and handwriting. OT has also focused on sensory processing and having Libby be more comfortable with wearing a variety of clothes (weather appropriate) and different hairstyles (only wants to wear her hair one way which is down). Libby was happy upon therapists' arrival. She told OT that she moved into her new house and loved it. Began treatment session with writing and creating on a "Buddha Board". On this board Libby used a paint brush with water to write letters. She was excited to tell the OT that she could write some three letter words and wrote the following words in uppercase CAT, PAT and MAT. During todays session we reviewed the lowercase letters c, o and a. Libby was instructed on correct formation of the lowercase letters d and g today. She required hand over hand assistance at first to make the "d" with a "c" first. She required visual cues and visual boundaries to form the "g" correctly as well. She needs continued practice to form these letters correctly. Continued gamer with site word fishing game. She had difficulty with reading the site words so we practiced her recall for lowercase letters and she would read out the letters of the words if she was unable to read the word. Good session.

Practice the letter sounds that have 2 different sounds. Identify words that start with those sounds. Review sight words and practice using some in sentences. Complete vowel sounds worksheet. Read short vowel words book and point out the words. Practice writing the words from the book.

Libby was seen in her room for a 45-minute treatment session with the focus of therapy on fine motor skills specifically grasp patterns, ocular motor skills (saccades), self care skills, and handwriting. OT has also focused on sensory processing and having Libby be more comfortable with wearing a variety of clothes (weather appropriate) and different hairstyles (only wants to wear her hair one way which is down). Libby was happy today and participated well during her 45 minute session. Began treatment session with resistive putty to work on intrinsic hand strength. Libby is observed to use a immature grasp pattern on her writing utensils at times and by increasing her hand strength she was have more control and stability for fine motor tasks. Worked on visual motor development and executive functioning skills by going on previously learned print lower case letters. Libby does best when provided with some verbal and visual cues to recall form of some of the lower case letters she has previously learned. She review the first group of letters learned which included "r,n,m,p,f,b, and h" and worked on "c,o and a" today. Good session.

We played with the electric keyboard, and listened to some music. We watched some videos of singing ventriloquists.

Libby completed her interactive calendar and her calendar talk. She read and discussed her vocabulary words. She worked on her phonics activities. She began her Ant Life Cycle notebook.

This morning, Libby began with addition within 10 problems using a number line to help her find sums, and she completed the 'Review What You Know' from the next unit on writing equations to match given models and addition vocabulary. Then, we worked on the opening example from the understanding subtraction lesson and Libby drew pictures to model taking away.