Preschool Child Development Case

Study TTE 303: The Young Child

May 13, 2015 Kaitlyn Dennis

Learning Story: EC Builds a House

Learning Story: EC Learning to Care for a Horse

Physical Development• Strengths: – Ability to manipulate various types of

materials to write his name – Ability to position his body and recreate all

the yoga positions – Ability to connect and disconnect

manipulative (Legos, Lincoln Logs and counting cubes)

• Areas for Growth: – Building strength in his upper body – Strengthening his leg muscles

Physical Development

• School and Home Based Activities: – Continuing to build strength through swimming

(practice kicking holding onto wall of pool and throwing beach balls into the pool)

– Helping around the house by lifting items weighted appropriate for his age

– Practice throwing various types of balls at a target

– Participating in an obstacle course that would included: jumping, running, climbing, and crawling

– Helping to stack the classroom chairs at the end of the day

Language Development

• Strengths: – Understanding of word to letter knowledge and

recognition of letter sounds – Using appropriate pragmatics with peers and

adults – Utilizes telegraphic speech and complex sentences – Self- talks during independent play

• Area for Growth: – Strengthening his consonant clusters <th>– Increasing knowledge of grammar around

pronouns her and she

Language Development

• School and Home Based Activities: –Modeling good language practices – Emphasizing <th> sounds in words – Labeling item in the classroom, as well

as, at home

Cognitive Development

• Strengths:– Strong evidence of reasoning and problem

solving– Use of private speech during independent

play – Ability to interact wit creative and

imaginative activities– Ability to make connections between home

and school

• Area for Growth: – Limiting interruptions during large group

circle time– Willingness to try new activities

Cognitive Development

• School and Home Based Activities: – Creating a more interactive large group

circle time that encourages child participation

– Activity helper, that helps to ‘lead’ new activities in the classroom

– Encouraging him to read the story and interpret the pictures

– Have a new responsibility around the home each week

Emotional Development

• Strengths: – Ability to show empathy to his peers – Ability to regulate his own emotions – Understanding of other’s emotions

• Areas for Growth: – Requires adult reminder on class

procedures (especially around clean-up) – Taking ownership or pride for own

creations

Emotional Development

• School and Home Based Activities: – Assign specific responsibilities for him to

complete in the home (get the mail, set the dinner tables, exc)

– Option of documenting his own creations and giving him a place to display his work

– Giving clean up warnings starting at 10 minutes till clean up and going down from there. Also possibly giving him a portable timer so he can monitor his own time

Social Development• Strengths: – Strong awareness of cooperative play – Understanding of what it means to be

kind

• Areas for Growth: – Looking for friendships in peers – Social interactions with adults

Social Development• School and Home Based Activities: – Building relationships with peers

through arranged collaborative play – Interacting with other adults at the

preschool (taking attendance to the office or being classroom greeter)

–Modeling social interactions – Participating in play with children from

his home neighborhood