Kim Yniguez

Family Summary
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March 26, 2016

Parent Teacher Conference

4 year old
Childs Initials PH
Teacher Kim Yniguez
Overall Progress: In the past six months, PH has shown many improvements related
to cognitive development. Her most successful progression is in identifying uppercase
letters. Her results are as follows: August 20, 2015-recgonizes one letter, October 9,
2015- recognizes 12 letters, January 21, 2016- recognizes 22 of 26 uppercase letters.
In addition, PH has improved in identifying shapes, patterns, and numbers since her first
assessment. Social/Emotionally, PH has shown growth in her ability to self-monitor her
emotions. I observed a child testing PHs patience. As PH became more and more
upset at the other child, she did not display physical aggression. Instead, she gathered
her materials and moved to a quiet area of the classroom while she finished her work
independently. I am also impressed by PHs artistic abilities. I have observed her on
multiple occasions sit at the art center for long periods of time (30-50 minutes) and even
bring her art with her if the class is moving on to a different activity, in order to fulfill her
creative thoughts.

Intellectual: PH meets or exceeds all aspects of intellectual development. She is able

to identify all basic shapes and colors, and is very close to being able to identify all
letters of the alphabet. She is able to independently read eight of the twelve sight words
that she has been introduced to. Along with that, PH attempted to sound out words such

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as cat and fox during the writing portion of her assessment. PH does struggle with
improving numeral concepts. Her rote counting results are as follows: August 20, 2015counts to 12, October 9, 2015- counts to 14, January 21, 2016- counts to 14. While
counting one-to-one correspondence, her voice did not match her finger; she would
move one manipulative at a time, but count at a faster pace than she was moving the
manipulative. I will continue to encourage PH to count slowly and move the
manipulative further away in hopes of matching the counting pace more effectively.

Social Emotional: At the beginning of the school year, PH struggled to manage her
emotions. She experienced separation anxiety during morning drop-off. I was forced to
physically hold PH back as her mother left the room. Six months later, I have seen a
tremendous improvement in this area. She now comes in the classroom with a huge
smile on her face, exchanges hugs with her mother, and continues on to wash her
hands and greet her classmates. There are social aspects that PH has difficulty with
and those include: sharing/turn taking, listening to others when they speak, and helping
clean-up. Overall, PHs social and emotional development is typical and there are no
major concerns at this time.

Work Habits: PH demonstrates thorough and precise work habits. She understands
what is asked of her and does her best to produce the desired outcome. PH is prideful
and will often give her artwork to friends or teachers as a gift. Often times when the

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class is ready to move on to the next activity, PH is still involved in perfecting her work.
This impacts her at times because it causes her to be uninvolved in group discussions
or activities.

Language: PH speaks clearly and uses age appropriate words to expand sentences. I
heard PH describe a picture that she drew: This is the playground. A part of it broke.
The kids had to climb up the ladder. These are the stars- they protect the kids. When
there was a conflict with PH and another child, I approached them to find a solution.
While the other child was unable to enunciate what the issue was, PH was quick to tell
me: EH has all of the puzzle pieces and I am trying to pass them out so everyone has
the same. In this situation, PH effectively used words to tell me exactly what the
problem was. During our morning learning time, PH has so much to say that she often
interrupts. To manage this, I encourage her to tell her pocket pal, an imaginary figure
that she can pull out of her pocket at any time and whisper her thoughts to him/her.

Gross Motor: PH is emerging in six of the twelve observed areas of large motor
development. She emerges in half of the focuses due to uncoordinated body
movements. I saw PH stumble, trip, walk in a slanted direction, and overall make
loose/uncontrolled movements. On the other hand, she self-manages her lively
personality through running, jumping, dancing, and twirling. Although they may not be

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the most graceful moves, she is willing to exercise and keep her body moving. I saw
excitement in PHs face every time the music and movement teacher arrived.

Fine Motor: PH met fine motor standards in August and continues to master these
skills as time goes on. She shows proper hold and control of scissors, paint brushes,
pipettes, writing utensils, and a computer mouse. PH is also able to button and zip
independently, however she is having difficulty with showing beginning stages of tying
shoes. At this time PH meets or exceeds all fine motor expectations. At this point, she
and I will practice tying bows with ribbon, yarn, and other materials similar to shoe
laces.