Preschool Child Development Case Study TTE 303: The Young Child May 13, 2015 Kaitlyn Dennis
Dec 25, 2015
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