Current Focus:

• Letter Recognition, Writing, and Sound: S
• Writing their own name
• Speaking in complete sentences.  (especially when asking and answering questions)
• Identifying rhyming words and creating rhyming pairs
• Difference between left and right 
• Understand different emotions and the corresponding body language/facial expressions
• Number recognition
• Following oral directions with more than one step
• Sorting objects into different categories
• Recognizing parts of a whole
• Shapes
• Fine motor skills:
  • Cutting (Can only be used when teachers or adults instruct and supervise, thumb in the small hole/fingers in the larger hole, small cuts at the front of the scissors not the back, and remember "thumbs up!" don't cut upside down)
  • Folding paper
  • zipping zippers
  • Coloring inside the lines (Color slowly, small movements around the edges, then can color the inner area a little quicker)

Review Skills:

• Always start letters at the top (Song link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um096Twf3lQ&feature=youtu.be) 
• Letter Recognition, Writing, and Sound: A (two sounds), B, C (two sounds), D, and E (two sounds), F, G (two sounds), H, I (two sounds), J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, & R
• Be a "Super Listener" 1. ears are listening 2. eyes are on the speaker 3. bodies are still 4. mouths are silent
• Emerging reading skills: (1) Recognize that we read from left to right. (2) Letters together can form words, words written together with puncutation can create a sentence. I write a "Sentence of the Day" to help students learn these concepts. 
• Auditory Descrimination: Recognizing sounds, Identifying locations, Repeating sounds, Following rhythms 
• 12 months in a year (Song link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw)
• 7 days of the week (Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY)
• Vocab: Dot, Line, Same, Different, Big, Medium, Little, Underline
• Positional concepts: under, over, across, over, in, on, around, top, bottom, middle, next to, between, in front of, in back of, behind 
• Opposites