Natalie:
- Continues to learn to read. She has about twenty sight words (a combination of ones learned in school and a from home) and sounds out simple words.
- Currently loves drawing pictures, especailly of her current love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Michelangelo. (Who, by the way, she gives kisses to all the time in her books!).
- Is using inventive spelling to write words! So exciting!
- Is starting to really understanding adding and subtracting within five.
- Is learning to count to 100 and to count by tens.
- Loves school!
- Is great at hopping and was excited to learn how to play hopscotch.
- Can follow simple Lego directions on her own.
- Knows some directions for trips we take all the time, or recognizes the houses of kids on her bus route.
- Learning and doing lots of things at school like: fire safety, Columbus, releasing butterflies hatched from cocoons, first field trip to apple orchard.
William:
- Learning to cut with scissors.
- Currently loves dress up focusing on mostly hats and shoes. His favorite is to wear snow boots, a tool belt, light saber sword, and cowboy hat to be Puss in Boots.
- Will take any action figures / animal figurines / stuffed animals and pretend they are show characters. For example, Puss in Boots and Soft Paws, Tod and Copper (Fox and the Hound), Simba and Mufasa, Scooby Doo and Shaggy.
- Loves to act out scenes from tv / movies and books. One of my favorites is acting out Should I Share My Ice Cream?
- Loves to help.
- Loves playing with Natalie, but doesn't play with other kids much and only for short periods.
- Can get undressed alone, and mostly get dressed. Finally starting to get his shoes on the correct feet more consistently.
- Continues to love animals. Held a guinea pig in his lap on a blanket, but was too scared to pick it up and when it ran around on him. Remembers the guinea pig from the library even though it "went to the farm" maybe a year ago now.
- Likes painting and gluing, but not coloring / drawing.
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