Observations
Evaluation
Date: 5/18/11
Time: 10:00 am
Describe Childs actions:

Matching Game-
Dictates "I know these match"
Red, orange, black, grey, pink, yellow, blue, turquoise, brown.

Story Sequence Cards-
says: "the old woman wants a gingerbread man, she takes the bread and puts it in the toaster, the the gingerbread runs away.

Writing-
Writes her name and then the alphabet



Book-
Opens book
'Describe HOW the child is doing it

Matching game-
Takes one by one according to what matches, smiles after, sticks out tongue, wiggles around and says colors clearly.


Story Sequence Cards-
Says with vigor.



Writing-
Writing concentrated making sounds with mouth, proud of self. Leaning over writing, holding pencil with thumbs over index, letters getting increasingly larger.

Book- Flips pages rapidly. identifies objects in story, opens cover abruptly.
Intervention

Teaching her to improve her alphabet handwriting: 10:05 am - 10:12 am (no more than 7 minutes)
Describing her actions
How she does it:


"Do you remember the alphabet?"
*nods head*
Writing out all the uppercase letters (tracing over the worksheet)
-Traces with frown/determined facial expression and writes relatively quickly
- does not write with correct steps for some particular letters
Gets faster and faster but still stays within same range of neatness/messiness
Writing out lower case
gets distracted easily
moves paper around often
A bit restless
Does everything silently and rushes a bit
- Looks frequently at the other kids playing games across the room
- relatively neat for a 5 year old