fire drills, assemblies, and early dismissals

So, this is my first time blogging.  I am learning to use the Wilson Reading System (WRS).  Here I am sharing my reflections on lessons taught and the lessons I have learned from this.  Yesterday I started my second lesson with my practicum student.  We met for only a half hour in the morning because we had an assembly during our meeting time in the afternoon.  I used the letter cards more efficiently yesterday.  I pre-sorted them into vowels, consonants and digraphs so I had smaller stacks and could find the letters more easily.  I also used the technique of changing just one letter to change the word.  My student really liked seeing this.  Today we got a late start in the morning because of a bus fire drill.  We did a quick warm up of the short vowel sounds, the digraphs and a few of the consonants.  Then I had my student illustrate the digraph key words.  She did a wonderful thing - she had a theme - starting with sh - ship - /sh/.  The pictures told a story and were all done in red, white, and blue!  Such a creative mind.  I was excited about working with her this afternoon but she had to leave early.  Oh well!  Tomorrow is a new day.  I wrote an entire new lesson plan for tomorrow - hope we can get through the whole thing in the time allotted.