Progress time!

We were given progress reports on both girls last week. As we would all guess, they are both doing great!

For Alexis:
Her strengths:
-Alexis is absolutely comfortable writing different letters and designs. This has strengthened her fine motor skills.
-Alexis is very confident with sorting items by color, size and shape. She is often observed using our counting bears to sort.
-Alexis is very kind to all of her friends in our class. She is always willing to share a toy with a friend.
-Story time is one of Alexis' favorite parts of the day. She loves sitting and listening to a story being read to her.

Next development milestones:
-We are going to work with Alexis on her balancing skills. We will have her practice standing on one foot at a time.
-We will work on one-to-one correspondence with Alexis by playing counting and dice games. We will also continue identifying shapes with her.
-When something goes wrong, Alexis often gets upset and has difficulty expressing her emotions. We want to encourage her to try and talk her feelings out and come to her teachers for help.
-We are going to continue working with Alexis on building her confidence in recognizing her letters. We will use different letter puzzles to help her match lower and uppercase letters.

For Avery:
Her strengths:
-Avery can complete eight to ten piece knob puzzles. She can also walk on tiptoes, backwards and hop on two feet. Avery is now manipulating connectors with purpose.
-Avery can count to thirteen. She even tries to count objects without assistance.
-Avery's self help skills are age appropriate. She cleans up with no reminders and reminds her friends to clean up too!
-Avery's vocabulary and language skills grow more and more each day. She can verbalize her wants and needs easily.

Next development milestones:
-We will encourage Avery to start stringing large beads. We will improve Avery's balance by kicking a ball.
-We will use shape puzzles and our shape board to encourage Avery to identify shapes. We will also encourage Avery to recognize colors during play.
-After diaper changes, we will encourage Avery to pull-up her own pants. We will also teach Avery how to put her jacket on independently.
-We will encourage Avery to start having meaningful conversations with peers and adults. We will facilitate conversation between Avery and peers during play.

We are very proud of Alexis and how she is doing in her new Pre-K class. She loves going to school, playing with her friends and learning. She has adjusted very well in her new class and is learning new things every day!

Avery has very much surprised us...in a good way! She is very smart! After talking to her teachers about her progress report they said, in one-weeks time they have seen new progress with her. She is doing AMAZING with her color recognition, learning her shapes and her vocabulary is growing every day. I had to laugh when I read about helping Avery dress, undress and pull her own pants up. It was just a month or so ago, when we were dealing with her undressing herself (completely). She has definitely mastered that. She has been doing great with going on the big-girl potty at home, but unfortunately not telling the teachers at school when she has to go to the bathroom. Now that is a goal!

Thanks for checking in!