Focus Child Summary (1)

Child: Adam Age: 4yrs and 2months Family information

Interests:  Attends Wednesday-Friday
 Enjoys constructions and play with legos,  Mum, dad, with an older brother Liam (2
making tranformers, vehicles (6/9/18) years older)
 Loves outdoors, transformers and
 Australian background. Speak English
beyblade toys and story books and
literacy games such as reading eggs  Best friends at school: Khang, Noah, he
(family info, obs 5, 14/9/18) sometimes play with Keyden, other boys
 Enjoys physical activity and challenge his and girls (Joanna, Rashi and Emigon.
physical abilities (obs 14/9/18)  Friends outside school: Jules and Liam
 Loves music, singing and dancing (obs  Family’s activity on the weekend: spend
12/9/18)
time at home, sometimes catch the buses
 Shows interest in police and police cars
and trains to visit family.
and playing pretend police with his
invented weapon (obs 5/9/18)  Parents’ expectations: Adam still requires
 Shows interest in role play, cooking (obs further develop,emt with his speech
31/8/18) (clarity and pronunciation).

Significant Information from Analysis of Observations

Learning (development) Dispositions Relationships
Literacy ( & language/communication) - confidence - Has good relationship with all educators
- Speaks English - enthusiasm in the room.
- still developing control of sounds - curiosity - Best friends at school: Khang, Noah, he
(pronunciation) (C, S, F, ch, Sh, k and R) - creativity and imagination sometimes play with Keyden, other boys
(family info, obs 31/8/18, 5/9/18) - cooperation, commitment and girls (Joanna, Rashi and Emigon.
- problem solving
Mathematics - persistence
- Mathematic concepts; sizes, shapes,
colours, matching capacity and spatial
awareness (obs 6/9/18)

Science and technology

 - Shows interest in the concept of
transforming, electricity, space and
environment (obs 5/9/18)
Creative Arts
- show little interest in art and craft, but he
is creative in construction
Physical development, health and wellbeing
- has competent gross-motor and fine-
motor development
- confident involving in social and
cooperative play and interaction, but his
speech development sometimes makes
him loose confidence (obs 5/9/18)
Human society and the environment
- shows interest in environment and
animals

Suggestions for learning focus
Literacy ( & language/communication)
1. Further develop his speech development
Mathematics
2. Shapes, volume, matching and counting
Science and technology
3. Explore technology (phone and camera)
Suggestions for experiences to extend
 Cooperative plays that promote social
interaction
 Role play (cooking in the sand pit and
home corner)
 Construction play with vehicles, different
sizes of lego
 Sorting colours
 Shapes construction
 Use pretend phones to call emergency
numbers (part of project)
 Use camera and iPad to take photos
Suggestions for strategies
- use play-based approach
- hand-on experiences
- create interest corner where children can
revisit their learning
- initiate conversation and scaffold
children’s learning and interest during
play
- Provide tools and variety of construction
toys in the construction corner
- Engage in children’s play and interaction
- Role model
- Use open-ended questions
- Create interest corner
4. Develop curiosity and learning through
enquiry
Creative Arts
5. For Adam to involve in arts experience
Physical development, health and wellbeing
6. Continue develop fine-motor/gross-motor
development, social and emotional wellbeing
Human society and the environment
7. explore community helpers, map
(geography) and environment
 Sand play
 Have individual journal
 Chalk drawing outdoor
 Obstacle course
 Provide manipulative experiences to
enhance eye-hand coordination
 Physical games
 look at community map (use iPad)
 emergency helpers project
 create community model
- Provide technology for children to learn
through enquire and hand-on
experiences
- Provide a journal which children can
bring out to add their artworks and share
with family and friends
- Doing creative art experience outdoor
- Use game and play learning experiences
to enhance the child’s physical and
emotional development
- Use peer-partner
- Be play-partner
- role model the use of technology
- use project approach
- use group work