Child Skills Checklist

(From Observing Development of the Young Child by Janice J. Beaty)

Childs Name: Aaliyah Batrez
DOB: 10/21/2009

Observer: Miriam Heligio

Dates:

02-19-2013 to 03-01-2013

Program: Head Start

Directions:
Put a for items you see the child perform regularly. Put N for items where there is no
opportunity to observe. Leave all others blank.

Item

Evidence

Date

1. Self-Esteem
___ Separates from parents
without difficulty
__ Develops a secure
attachment with teacher
___ Completes a task
successfully
___ Makes activity choices
without teachers help
___ Seeks other children to
play with
___ Play roles confidently in
dramatic play
___ Stands up for own rights

___ Displays enthusiasm

about doing things for self

Just asked mom for a big hug and kisses

02/27/2013

Always wants to help the teacher to pass

something during meal times.
Sometimes when a puzzle is too difficult
she ask for help.
During free play time she chooses where
she wants to play.
She is always interacting with three girls
from her classroom.
She always wants to be the mom and
asked one of her friends to be the baby.
During lunch time another girls took her
chair because she was passing the
napkins and when she went back to her
spot she told the girl I was sitting here
and also told the teacher that that was
her chair.
When she finished a puzzle she told the
teacher look it teacher I did it.

02/19/2013

When she gets up set for something she

tells the teacher what happened or what
someone did to her.
When someone does something to her
that she does not like she tells him or her

02/22/2013

02/25/2013
02/20/2013
02/21/2013
02/22/2013
02/26/2013

02/28/2013

2. Emotional Development
___ Releases stressful
feelings in appropriate manner
___ Expresses anger in words
rather than negative actions

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Evidence

thats not nice.

___ Can be calmed in difficult
When she fell from the slide she was
or dangerous situations
about to cry and the teacher told her that
she was ok and she calmed down.
___ Overcomes sad feelings in During the day when she misses mom
appropriate manner
the teacher tells her that her mom is
coming soon and she feels better.
___ Handles surprising
When her mom comes to pick her up
situations with control
instead of running towards mom she
invited her mom to play with her and
her friends.
___ Shows fondness,
When one of her classmates is leaving
affection, love towards others
she walks to the door and gives him or
her a hug and says good bye.
___ Shows interest/attention in During circle time she participates in
classroom activities
singing and playing games. She always
pays attention to the teacher
___ Smiles seems happy
She is smiling most of the time
much of the time

Date
02/25/2013

02/26/2013

02/25/2013

02/28/2013

02/25/2013

03/01/2013

3. Social Play
__ Spends time watching
others play

___ Plays by self with own

toys/materials
__N_ Plays parallel to others
with similar toys/materials
___ Plays with others in a
group
___ Makes friends with other
children
___ Gains access to ongoing
play in a positive manner
___ Maintains role in ongoing
play in a positive manner

When I started observing her she was

new in the center so she used to spend
most of the time observing the other
children playing.
When I started observing her she was
new in the center so she spend most of
the time playing by herself.

02/19/2013

During free play time she plays with her

classmates in groups on the water table,
kitchen and block area.
Now that she is confident she talks to
her new classmates and wants to interact
with them.
When some other children are dancing
and she wants to dance she ask them
and she can join them.
During free play time she pretends to be

02/26/2013

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02/22/2013

02/28/2013

03/01/2013

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__ Resolves play conflicts in
positive manner

Evidence
the mom or the baby and she spends
more of the free time playing that role.
When someone hit her she does not hit
back she tells the teacher what
happened.

Date
02/25/2013

4. Prosocial Behavior
___ Shows concern for
someone in distress
___ Can tell how another feels
during conflict
___ Shares something with
another

___ Gives something to

another
___ Takes turns without a fuss

___ Helps another do a task

___ Helps (care for) another is
need

When the teacher send a child to time

out. She asks the teacher why that child
is on time out.
When she is playing with toys and
another child wants to play with her she
let him or her borrow the toys with what
she wants playing with.
When she draws something she says to
her friend this is for you.
They like to draw on the board and she
takes turns with her friends to use the
erase markets.
When is clean up time she helps her
friend or the teacher to clean up.
During meal time she passes the fruit
basket when another child cannot reach
it.

02/26/2013

02/28/2013

02/27/2013
02/26/2013

02/25/2013
02/26/2013

5. Large Motor
Development
_N__ Walks down steps
alternating feet
___ Runs with control over
speed and direction
___ Jumps with feet together

She runs when she goes to the bathroom 02/27/2012

even though the teacher does not allow
the kids to run.
During circle time when they sing look
02/20/2013
who came to school today. She stands up
when the teacher called her name and
jumps while the other kids are singing.

_N__ Hops on one foot

___ Throws, catches and kicks
balls
___ Climbs up and down
across climbing equipment

When playing bowling she is able to

throw the ball.
She climbs in the climbing area in the
playground.

03/01/2013
02/25/2013

_N__ Rides trikes, bikes, &

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scooters
___ Does creative movement

Evidence

Date

When she dances, she create movements

like dancing like a bailarine.

03/27/2013

A.B. is able to open the door from the

bathroom and classroom.
In the water table she is able to pours
water inside a container and pours it
into another one.

02/28/2013

Put play dough into molds and created

fruits out of play dough.
A.B. is able to hold a pencil and trace her
name.

02/19/2013

She knows most of the colors and shape

figures.

02/21/2013

During circle time the teacher asked her

to count but there were only16 children.

02/26/2012

She answers to every question.

She answers to every question.

02/20/2013
02/20/2013

She repeats all the songs.

All the time during meal or play time
she talks to her friends.

02/26/2013
03/01/2013

6. Small Motor
Development
___ Turns knobs, lids,
eggbeaters
___ Pours liquid without
spilling
__N_ Unfastens/fastens
zippers, buttons, Velcro tabs
___ Picks up and inserts
objects with dexterity
___ Molds play dough clay
with dexterity
___ Uses drawing/writing tools
with control

02/25/2013

02/28/2013

_N__ Uses hammer with control

7. Cognitive Development
_N_ Sorts objects by shape,
color
__N_ Classifies objects by size
N Places objects in sequence or
series
__N_ Recognizes, creates
patterns
___ Counts by rote to 20
_N__ Displays 1-to-1
correspondence with numbers
_N__ Problem-solves with
concrete objects
_N__ Problem-solves with
computer programs

8. Spoken Language
___ Listens but does not speak
___ Gives single word answers
_N__ Gives short-phrase
responses
___ Does chanting
___ Takes part in conversations

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Evidence

Date

___ Speaks in expanded

sentences
___ Asks questions

Today is my mom birthday.

02/28/2013

All the time.

02/27/2013

___ Can tell a story

Yes, she was talking about the book

mean soup.

02/25/2013

Yes, and she tell the teacher what she

wrote in the paper.
yes

02/27/2013

yes

02/27/2013

When she goes to the library area she

can hold the book and turn the pages in
the proper way.

02/21/2013

YES

02/20/2013

YES

02/27/2013

When she is dancing

02/20/2013

When she dances

02/20/2013

The drums at school.

Yes during circle time or when they are
dancing.

02/20/2013
02/19/2013

Yes when she tells one of her friends to

be the baby because she wants to be the
mom.

02/25/2013

9. Emergent Writing &

Reading Skills
___ Pretends to write with
pictures and scribbles
___ Makes horizontal lines of
writing scribbles
___ Includes letter-like forms in
writing
__N_ Makes some letters,
prints name or initial
___ Holds book right-side up;
turns pages right to left

02/27/2013

__N_ Pretends to read using

pictures to tell a story
__N_ Retells stories from books
with increasing accuracy
__N_ Show awareness that
print in books tells story

10. Art & Music Skills

___ Makes basic scribble
shapes
__N_ Combines circles/squares
with crossed lines
___ Draws person as sun-face
with arms & legs
N__ Combines objects together
in a picture
___ Moves legs & feet in
rhythm to a beat
___ Moves arms & hands in
rhythm to a beat
___ Plays instruments
___ Sings with group or by
him/herself

11. Dramatic Play Skills

__N_ Does pretend play by
him/herself
___ Assigns roles to takes
assigned roles

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_N__ Needs particular props to
do pretend play
___ Takes on characteristics &
actions related to a role
___ Can pretend with
imaginary objects
_N__ Uses Language for
creating and sustaining plot
_N_ Uses exciting, danger
packed themes
___ Uses elaborate themes,
ideas, details

Evidence

Date

Yes, like a mom she takes care of the

baby and she pretends to carry the baby
on the train.
Yes, imaginary food.

02/21//2013

When she and her friends line up the

chairs because they were pretending that
they were on a train.

02/21/2013

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