Andy’s Current Level of

Development

Presented by Vanessa Cordova

Physical Development Strengths

Fine Motor Skills

Using Scissors

Writing

Gross Motor Skills

Peddling a bike and a tricycle

Balancing (two feet)

Running

Jumping (two feet)

Physical Development Future Growth

Fine Motor Skills

Continuing to work in holding pencils from different sizes

Cutting small, medium, and large pictures and lines

Gross Motor Skills

Jumping with two and one foot with hula hoops and a rope

Balancing: walking on a line and balancing on his left and right foot for seconds, and skip leading with one leg)

Kicking and hitting a ball with a bat

School Activities to Scaffold Physical

DevelopmentMaking playdough (invite him to make

different balls, animals, cakes, cookies, or cars)

Tracing, coloring, and drawing

Inviting him building streets, houses, or towers with small, medium, and large blocks and Legos

Dancing

Home Activities to Scaffold Physical Development

Continuing doing the grocery list

Drawing horizontal and vertical lines

During Cooking with his Mom:

Grabbing measurements cups and the items that his mom will be need to make the food.

Writing a recipe with his mom

Riding a tricycle, scooter, and continuing ride bikes with his family

Cognitive Development

StrengthsAndy uses:

Creativity and imagination

Solitary play (which is part of play and cognitive development)

Constructive play in where he uses items from the classroom to represent something

Dramatic, and associative play

Also, attention, concentration, and memory during different activities

Cognitive Development Strengths Future

Growth

Incorporating different areas of play in the house area

Working in groups

Implementing more music and movement

Playing math games and problem solving situations (individual and as a group)

School Activities to Scaffold Cognitive

Development

Using small blocks from different colors and work with him using patterns

Incorporating table games to enhance his thinking.

Having conversations with open-ended questions

Home Activities to Scaffold Cognitive Development

Counting the items that his mom would need to cook (cans, boxes, bags, pans, forks, spoons, or plates).

Playing games at home as a family such: bingo about letters or numbers.

Matching colors with cards

Language Development

StrengthsSemantic language (he uses English words in

his sentences)

Phonetic language (saying aloud the sound of letters)

Syntactic language (he uses complete sentences with nouns, verbs, and adjectives in appropriate way)

Pragmatic language (he uses appropriate and signficative conversation [please and thank you])

Language Development Strengths Future

GrowthReading picture books (read aloud) in

English and Spanish

Practicing sentences with appropriate adjectives, verbs and nouns in both languages English/Spanish

Practicing adjectives words in games and songs

Providing readings of his choice and interest in English and Spanish

School Activities to Scaffold Language

DevelopmentFocusing in vocabulary words before,

during, and after the story

helping Andy to spell words and recognize letters through games and readings

Incorporating activities connecting sound and substitution of letters in both languages

Rephrasing his complete sentences in both languages

Home Activities to Scaffold Language Development

Reading books with him about verbs, prepositions, and nouns in English and Spanish

Andy’s parents could practice the sound of letters in Spanish with him and after them, Andy’s sisters could help him in English (through readings)

Understand and learning prepositions with games (playing match cards)

Practicing in rhyming words in English/Spanish (“Carrot” ask Andy “Can you think a word that rhymes with it, such as “Parrot”. Also, this could practice in Spanish like “Piña” “Niña”)

Emotional Development

StrengthsAndy demonstrates:

Empathy

Sympathy

Curiosity

He helps others in many ways (feel better and solve conflicts) and shares with others

Emotional Development Strengths Future

Growth

Providing readings about different feelings with puppets

Singing songs about feelings

Asking questions in morning circle time “how are you feeling today? And why? (Like happy, sad, excited, shy, sleepy, and angry)

School Activities to Scaffold Emotional

DevelopmentCreating pictures of children of the

classroom making different feelings (happy, sad, excited, shy, sleepy, and angry)

Making a journal about feelings

Incorporating movement and active activities about feelings in the classroom

Home Activities to Scaffold Emotional Development

Continuing in the reading program (“Raising a Reader”) in where he is exposing in readings with puppets about feelings

Having conversations with him about his and others emotions

After readings, asking him how he thinks a character of the book may feel and why.

Social Development Strengths

Friendship

Cooperation

General interaction with his friends

Social Development Strengths Future

GrowthGames

Working as a groups in different activities

Conversations in circle time and with their family at home

Giving Andy the opportunity to interact with other people (parks and other places around the community)

School Activities to Scaffold Social Development

Introducing books about cooperation, friendship, respect, conflict management, and interaction with others

Creating a puppet implementing stories and readings that relates to social development

Table games to practice and continuing develop his social skills

Home Activities to Scaffold Social Development

Going to the park as a family (to enhance Andy’s social development)

Creating a puppet show with his family with topic of cooperation, friendship, respect, conflict management, and interaction with others

Playing sports with his friends, cousins, and sisters and to continuing ride bikes around the community