Date prepared Jan 2013 Area of learning | Strengths and interests | Any concerns? | Activities to develop strengths | Activities to develop areas of concern | Physical development | Enjoys using a tricycle and propelling it with feetEnjoys jumping from a low step. | Struggles with using pedals on the tricycle.Struggles with balancing her body on her own while stepping on the big car wheels/tyres. | Encourage jumping from a higher step/object under an adult supervision. | Learn to use the pedals on the tricycle. Practice balancing more often by using the wheels to balance her self
for instance. | Languagedevelopment | Uses pronouns ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘you’ correctly.Can say a few nursery rhymes | Needs to improve her vocabularyReinforce the use of ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ | Strike conversations with the child during circle time and role play to improve her language skills further. | Story time – read books to the child to improve her vocabulary. | Social & Emotional & Moral development | Can express how she feels, and what she needs.Enjoys playing with other children. | Difficulty sharing with other children and turn taking. | Encourage her to share and take turns while playing with other children. | Read books about sharing. Practice turn taking during an activity. | Cognitivedevelopment | Knows 2 shapes: circle and triangle.Knows some animal sounds. | Does not recognize the colors yet.Needs help completing 4 or 6 piece jigsaw puzzle. | Learning shapes by practicing doing shape knob puzzles, show her pictures or flash cards with different shapes on them.Practice the old McDonald song more often, read ‘the very busy spider book’, to learn more animal sounds. | Learn colors by doing a knob puzzle w/ different colors, read the ‘brown bear book’.Practice making 4 and 6 piece puzzles more often. |
Please note children develop in a holistic manner and interconnected one activity may support more than one area of learning. This plan should inform your working practices.