I assessed Lilly using the Quick Phonics Screener, a tool to determine her phonetic knowledge. Lilly identified all 26 letter names. Lilly was unable to voice the following letter sounds: /â/, /û/, /ê/, /w/, /y/, /h/, /qu/, /g/, /x/. When asked to decode consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, she attempted to sound out each letter, but was unable to blend the words successfully. We played a game of Phonics Dice to practice the sounds of the letters; Lilly was thrilled to win the game! To conclude, I read a Mo Willem's book, "I Was Invited to a Party."

Libby completed her interactive calendar. She changed the calendar from January to February and created a new pattern for the month of February. She read her vocabulary words. She worked on phonics activities. She watched a science video about Groundhog Day. We discussed her new Ants notebook.

This morning, we had a quick review of the terms associated with addition and created a couple of addition stories. Then, the concept of subtraction was introduced. We discussed the terms related to and Libby made a minus sign for her wall. Finally, we used manipulatives to model examples of the concept of taking away to find what is left.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, vocabulary, calendar talk, reviewed the impact of plants and animals on their environment, and began a study of the life cycle of ants.

Learn about the lanterns used for Chinese New Year and do a lantern craft.

Work on letter sounds and word building. Use short and long vowel sounds to say and write words. Read short vowel words story together.

Collage using pre cut shapes and watercolor painting of choice.

Libby continued to work on the unit assessment on understanding addition. Questions included how to show numbers in different ways, represent addition as adding to or putting together, write equations to show addition, and find the sum of two numbers. She has been easily distracted this week and moving slowly on this assessment but will hopefully finish tomorrow.

Libby was told the word for four animals.

She learned pig, flamingo, dog and rabbit. We spoke about the ending of each of these words and how we use an -a ending for female animals. We spoke about how you can use the ending -ito (-ita) to show affection similar to saying piggy or doggy.

We practiced saying the words. We also briefly introduced the word zorro.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, calendar talk, CVC word activity, and letter recognition bingo.