Learning Portfolio

Background Information:
Name: Fiona
DOB: January 21st, 2014
Age: 2 years, 4 months
Home: Two parent household, older sister names Brenna

Anecdotes:
Domain: Social Domain
Root Skill: 1.3 Parallel Play
Specific Indicator: playing in proximity of peers with similar playthings without an
exchange of ideas or things
Anecdote: During afternoon free play time, Fiona (ch) and Ellie (ch) were sitting
beside each other at the table. Each had a felt board in front of them and were
putting the felt pieces that was in the basket between them onto their felt boards
(05/08/2014).

Domain: Emotional Domain

Root Skill: 2.2 Self-regulation - Emotion Regulation
Specific Indicator: elevating positive emotions
Anecdote: During Free Play time, Miss Leslie (st) had a puppet on her hand. Fiona
(ch) put a felt piece in the puppets mouth. Miss Leslie (st) pretended to make the
puppet eat it. Fiona (ch) started laughing hysterically and kept coming back to put
things in the puppets mouth (05/15/2014).

Domain: Communication, Language, and Literacy

Root Skill: 3.1 Receptive Language
Specific Indicator: listening to stories
Anecdote: During circle time, Miss Pat (RECE) asked whats this? as she held up a
pig felt piece, Fiona (ch) said pig! Ms. Pat (RECE) said yes it is a pig and
continued with telling the felt story (05/09/2014).

Domain: Cognitive Domain

Root Skill: 3.1 Receptive Language
Specific Indicator: matching items by function
Anecdote: During free play time, Fiona (ch) was playing with the matching popsicle
sticks. She first sorted them by colour: blue, red, and yellow, then she started to
match them based on the shapes (05/22/2014).

Domain: Physical Domain

Root Skill: 5.3 Senses - Sensory Exploration
Specific Indicator: using all senses in the exploration of properties and functions of
objects and materials
Anecdote: During small group, Fiona (ch) was using a paint brush to smear the cool
whip around her page. Fiona then put down the paintbrush and started to use her
hands to smear around the cool whip (05/21/2014).

Summary:
Fiona is a very happy and sociable girl. She enjoys playing with other children
and adults. Fiona always wants to be right in the action and is always willing to
explore new things. Fiona meets all of the developmental screen of a 2 year old and
nearly meets all of the developmental screen of a 2 and a half year old. She has
excellent communication skills. She is constantly expanding her vocabulary and
uses several words in a sentence, she also uses her words to ask for help. She
would benefit from things in her environment being named as well as offering
extensions to what she says to further her communication even more. Fiona enjoys
large group time and enjoys joining in with singing songs, and doing the actions. I
suggest singing songs with her throughout the day. Fiona enjoys being physical, she
is able to run, and walk backwards or sideways while pulling a toy. I suggest
bringing her to a park so she can practice climbing, running, and jumping. Fiona has
started to sort things, I suggest supporting this by asking her to sort and match

items by shape, touch, colour, and size. Fiona often wants to do things by herself,
she is able to eat with utensils without spilling and can take off her own shoes,
socks and hat. I suggest allowing her to have independence by encouraging her to
get dressed, undressed, do household tasks, turn lights on and off, and open and
close doors by herself. Fiona is starting to learn about her feelings and the feelings
of others, use words to describe her own feelings and the feelings of others. Fiona
enjoys looking at books, provide her with plenty of reading materials and read
together with her. Fiona is increasing her fine motor skills, I suggest doing puzzles of
different sizes, textures, number of pieces, and colours as well as manipulating play
dough by poking, cutting, rolling or pressing it, using popsicle sticks, safety scissors
and cookie cutters. She enjoys doing art activities, she likes to colour. I suggest
allowing her to explore using markers, crayons, paint, or chalk to make a picture
and ask her to tell you about her picture when shes finished. Fiona enjoys playing in
the dramatic play center, she often plays with familiar objects such as cups and
books. Fiona is a normal developing girl.