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CHILD BACKGROUND
Three year old boy turning four on
May 23rd
Five year old sister and eleven year
old brother
Extremely close bond with five year
old sister
Living in a household with both
siblings and mother and father
Spending time as a family is the
number one priority
FAMILY ENGAGEMENTS
Grandparents also live in Tucson
and play a major role in Quinns life
Attend church together every
Wednesday and Sunday
Enjoy hiking, camping and
spending time outdoors
Parents and children read every
night before bed
Make family trips to the library
Attend school events such as
cafecitos, love of reading month,
Saturday in the park, etc.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Strengths Improvements

Expressive Language Speech

Can verbally express thoughts, S sounds
emotions and needs Annunciation
Receptive Language
Ability to understand sentences
and directions
Beginning stages of reading
Emergent Writing
Can write letters in first and last
name and several other letters
Home Activities School Activities

Accessible collection of Speech therapy

books Cue cards
Reading daily Pacman
Quality back-and-forth game
conversations Repeating words
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Strengths Improvements

Can communicate Knowing when it is okay to be

effectively social and when its time to
Formed strong listen
relationships inside and Socializing with more
outside the classroom students or unfamiliar faces,
Dramatic play not just the ones he is most
Actively participates in comfortable with
large and small group
activities
Home-Activities School-Activities

Dramatic play with Kitchen

Star Wars figurines dramatic play
Using manners at Class
dinner table discussions
Shows respect Sharing circles
and politeness
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Strengths Improvements

Easy temperament Learning how to

positive mood, adapts to regulate emotions when
change, predictable upset
patterns How to calm himself
In touch with own feelings and change his
Understands and explains mood
his feelings
Generally upbeat and happy
Can handle separation

Home-Activities School-Activities

Talking about how he felt Mood sharing time

during the school day
Thinking time
 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Strengths Improvements

Can sit for long periods of How to work individually

time- sit through whole group when not surrounded by
lessons, an entire story and others
snack time Forming more elaborate
Ability to pay attention ideas
Contributions to discussions
are concrete and coincide
with the current learning
Short and long term memory
Learns by watching his peers
then doing School-Activities
Home-Activities

Doing homework while older sister Sitting and answering

is doing hers
Reading books then discussing
Practicing writing, saying and
recognizing letters and numbers
questions about a story
Waiting to say Bon
Appetit before eating
snack
Memory matching games
 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Strengths Improvements

Gross motor Fine motor

Climbing, running, jumping, Zippers, cutting,
catching, kicking, throwing, tying, writing
riding tricycles confidently
Fine motor
Writing with variety of
utensils, dressing himself,
opening packaging.

Home-Activities School-Activities

Gross motor Gross motor

Limit technology time and Outdoor play-
encourage outdoor play jumping, climbing,
Fine motor biking
Art projects with paint Fine motor
brushes, markers, pencils, Writing names daily
crayons, scissors, Art projects
Dressing himself in the
LEARNING JOURNAL
Quinn Learns to Write!

Beginning of the year:

Needed dots to trace to write his name

Middle of the year:

Needed an adult to coach him
through he letter of his name

End of the year:

Confident to write letters of his
name on his own
LEARNING JOURNAL
Quinn Learns to Read!

Beginning of the year:

Flipping through the pages of I
Love My New Toy!

Middle of the year:

Having an adult read I Love My
New Toy! repeatedly

End of the year:

Reading I Love My New Toy! on
his own
Oh, the Places Youll Go!