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CHILD

Day of the
WEEK with
DATE
(chose 1 or 2
days per week
depending on
days in the
field)

Henrietta

TH- 9/8
Week 3

Content: Strengths
and/or
Weaknesses
Name the content area and
state only what you
observed (hear and see)

(i.e.) LA- Writing- focus

is on handwriting,
copying letters
displayed by the
teacher

Additional Thoughts:
(observed learning style,
S/E) You may now add
some personal
interpretation here.

This seems typical to the

writing development of
other children in the
class.

She appeared to have a

difficult time forming the
letter a, but she wrote the
letter b very quickly and
accurately.

Henrietta

TH- 9/8/16
Week 3

Math Focus is on
counting dots in a ten
frame.
Henrietta was not counting
aloud when using the ten
frame in math.

Henrietta

M- 9/12
Week 4

LA-Writing- Focus is on
reading and writing
names of classmates.
Henrietta demonstrated
some letter reversals today.
She showed attention and
responsiveness to some of
the verbal chants used to
help children form letters
(i.e. lowercase t goes way
up high where the birdies
fly tweet, tweet).

I need more focused

observation to determine
why Henrietta does not
count aloud with the
class and if this happens
regularly.

The fact that Henrietta

repeats verbal chants
without prompting may
indicate a verbal/auditory
learning modality.

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Henrietta

M- 9/12
Week 4

Math Focus is on
classifying attributes in
tennis shoes.
Henrietta was identifying
attributes in objects around
the room other than in the
shoes.

Henrietta

T- 9/13
Week 4

LA-Writing: Focus is on
reading and writing student
names.
Part of this activity focuses
on phonic awareness by
pairing a sound with each
letter in a given students
name. Henrietta made the
connection that she has
the /n/ sound in her name
just like Katherine.

Although Henrietta is
grasping some of the
content, she may be
missing part of the
directions when she is
moving around, hence
not focusing only on
shoes.

More evidence in support

of an auditory learning
style emerged today.
She was once again
repeating letter chants
and phrases from the
class shared-reading
Chica Chica Boom Boom.

Henrietta starts some

letters like m and n from
the bottom instead of the
top.

Henrietta

T- 9/13
Week 4

Math Focus is on
counting with five
frames and identifying
attributes.
When placing unifix cubes
on her five frame, she
touches each individually
after her initial count. She
completed all parts of the
activity.
When classifying shoes by
attributes today, Henrietta
noticed that a boot and a
slipper have the same
shape if you cut the tall
part of a boot off.

It appears Henrietta was

on track with activities in
this segment.

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Henrietta

M 9/19
Week 5

LA Focus: Spelling
color words.
Henrietta sang along with
the R-E-D song spelling
red correctly.

Henrietta

T 9/20
Week 5

Math Focus:
Estimation during
Number Corner.
When shown 30 cubes,
Henrietta estimated that
there were 12.

Henrietta eagerly
participates in all music
related activities. This
supports a
verbal/auditory learning
style.

Henrietta may not yet

have enough experience
to visualize a quantity of
objects greater than
those in the five-ten
range accuratley.

During a repetition of the

five frame activity from
9/13, Henrietta recognized
that when no blocks are
filled in on a five frame, the
correct
term
used
to
describe this is zero.

Henrietta

M 9/26
Week 6

LA Focus: Working in
groups to classify
objects during an
integrated STEM
activity.
Henrietta had some trouble
at first refusing to talk with
group members. By the
end of the activity, she
explained how the group
had sorted their objects.

Henrietta

M 9-26
Week 6

Math Focus: Modeling

a quantity with unifix
cubes on a ten frame
after a picture of a ten
frame showing that

Henrietta may need

some additional support
at the beginning of group
activities so that she
does not become upset
with other group
members.

I will need to observe

further to see if this is a
fact she has internalized
or a repeated statement
that she has heard.

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quantity is flashed.
Henrietta showed five red
cubes on a ten frame.
When the teacher asked
how many cubes they had
after adding two more,
Henrietta said that 5+2=7.

Henrietta

TH 9/29
Week 6

LA-Focus is on reading
and writing letters in
the names of
classmates.

Her letter formation skills

seem to be
strengthening with
practice.

Henrietta correctly formed

the letters J, c, b, a, o
today.

Henrietta

T 10/4
Week 7

LA-Writing-Focus:
Forming the letters
D,d,n,A,r,e
Henrietta formed most
letters correctly, She does
not always hold up her dry
erase board for assessment
purposes.

Henrietta

M- 10/10
Week 8

LA-Writing: Focus on
tracing and writing capital
and lowercase As.

Henrietta was writing

smaller versions of the
capital version of A in place
of the lowercase version.

Henrietta

T 10/11/16
Week 8

Math: Focus on building

shapes with geoboards.
Built and identified a

Keep reminding Henrietta

to show her board during
these lessons. She may
be moving on too quickly.
If necessary, arrange for
her to quickly show her
board to the teacher as
soon as she finishes
writing the letter.

Henrietta was a bit tired

and reluctant to
participate that day.
Keeping this in mind, she
may have been
completing her work
incorrectly to get through
it quickly or to get a
reaction from the
teacher/classmates.

Henrietta needed to be
asked to build something
to show to the teacher.

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square and a letter x with
some prompting. Prior to
prompting, she did not
want to participate in the
activity because she asked
to use another work place.

Henrietta

TH 10/13
Week 8

LA-Writing: Focus on
tracing and writing capital
and lowercase letter d.

Henrietta stays on task

well during this type of
hands-on learning
activity.

All attempts were well

formed.

Henrietta

TH-10/13
Week 8

Math: Focus on copying

dot patterns using ten
frames and unifix cubes.

Henrietta appears to be
able to build what she
sees accurately.

All patterns observed were

built correctly.

Henrietta

M- 10/17
Week 9

LA-Reading: Focus on the

sight words go, to and we.

Henrietta once again

shows motivation to work
with verbal chants and
movement.

Henrietta cheered g-o

lets go, lets go for the
class.

Henrietta

M- 10/17
Week 9

Math: Focus on Flash and

Build 10:
They build
quantities that they see on
ten frames.
Henrietta
correctly
modeled all quantities and
was eager to share out
answers.

Henrietta worked very

quickly manipulating the
unifix cubes on the Ten
Frame. Tactile
approaches appear to
work well for her.

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Henrietta

TH 10/20
Week 9

LA-Readiing: Focus on
reviewing past sight words.

Henrietta
did
not
participate much during
the
lesson.
She
commented on being tired
that morning.

Henrietta

TH- 10/20
Week 9

Math:
Focus
on
comparing quantities of
unifix cubes on a ten
frame.

Henrietta seems to be
struggling lately at the
very beginning of the
day. She says that she
goes to bed around
9:00pm. She seems very
tired.

Henrietta is developing
strategies for additive
thinking through her
work with manipulatives.

Henrietta was able to count

filled spaces on a ten frame
and identify how many
more blocks she would
need to fill to make ten.

Henrietta

M 10/24/16

Week 10

LA Reading: Focus on
retelling stories with a
beginning, a middle and an
ending.

As predicted, Henrietta
did well using the
manipulatives.

Henrietta
ordered
all
pictures correctly and I
helped her to circle her
own
score
on
the
assessment
to
share
feedback.

Henrietta

Th 10-27-16

LA Reading: Focus on
finding and highlighting the
sight words he, said, she,
an, and know in their take
home sight word readers.
She
seemed
to
be
highlighting all words but

This lack of spacing

when highlighting is a
common error in class.

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forgetting to leave spaces
between them.

Henrietta

Th 10-27-16
Week 10

Math: Focus on increasing

a quantity by a factor of
one.

Henritta has good

handwriting skills for her
age.

On the final assessment

Henrietta was able to
increase her quantity of
two to three by adding one
pumpkin seed. She also
wrote
the
numeral
3
correctly.

Henrietta

M 10-31-16
Week 11

LA- Writing:
Focus on
think, draw, write.
After
the
mini-lesson
Henrietta
was
a
bit
reluctant to start.
She
claimed that she did not
have any pets to write
about.
(The resource
teacher did her minilesson
based on her cat, but
children were not assigned
a topic).

Henrietta

M 10-31-16
Week 11

Math Add, subtract

and tally with sticks.
Henrietta
consistently
added the correct number
of popsicle sticks to her set
of tally marks one at a
time.

Henrietta

TH 11-3-16
Week 11

LA Writing:
Sharing
writing
and
offering
questions and noticings
about the work of others.

Based on Henriettas
behaviors and
mannerisms, I believe
that she was a little
overtired that morning.
She tends to have a
difficult time in the
morning when she does
not get enough rest.
This is a problem that
she complains about at
least once per week.

This activity goes along

with her tactile learning
strengths.

I will continue to monitor

this situation as Writing
Workshop continues to
determine whether or not
there is a reason that she

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Henrietta

M 11-7-16
Week 12

When asked to share her

work Henrietta refused.

does not seem eager to

share.

LA Literacy Stations:
Focus on work on writing.

This student is doing well

with her visual
recognition of letters,
words and numerals.

After reading and tracing

the sentence I can see the
sun during work on
writing,
Henrietta
was
able to cut and paste the
sentence in the right order.

Henrietta

M 11-7-16
Week 12

Math: Focus on explaining

workplace Beat You to Ten
When there was only one
cube on the ten frame,
Henrietta said that she
needed to add nine more
to get ten.

CHILD

Cassidy

Day of the
WEEK with
DATES

M 9-12
Week 4

Content: Strengths
and/or

Henriettas work with the

ten frame is adding her
understanding of the
additive process.

Additional Thoughts:

Weaknesses

LA-Writing- Focus is on
reading and writing the
letters in classmates
names.

Cassidy is quietly focused

on the lesson.

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Cassidy always has her
eyes on the teacher. Most
of her letters are well
formed. She chants
quietly when the teacher
introduces class chants.

Cassidy

M 9-12
Week 4

Math Focus: Number

Corner, Calendar,
Weather Graph
Cassidy identified that all
bars on the bar graph were
the same, but the teacher
asked her to name that the
categories that were the
same. She did so.

Cassidy offers complete,

easily understood
thoughts when she
speaks.

Before going to work

stations, Cassidy shared a
comment that you can
measure with unifix cubes.

Cassidy

T 9-13
Week 4

LA-Writing-Focus:
Reading and writing the
letters in the names of
classmates.

Cassidy is quietly focused

on the lesson.

Cassidy quietly
participated in all
activities.

Cassidy

T 9-13
Week 4

Math-Focus:
Classifying Attributes
Cassidy participated in
talking with classmates
during a Think Pair Share
and offered a comment in
class following the ThinkPair-Share.

Cassidy seemed very

comfortable sharing her
thoughts with classmates.
The think-pair-share may
have helped her to feel
comfortable with sharing
her thoughts with the
class. More observation
would be needed to be
sure.

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Cassidy

M 9/19
Week 5

LA-Reading-Focus:
Retelling of Brown
Bear, Brown Bear What
Do You See

Cassidy actually seems to

be developing her verbal
capacities into a strong
learning style.

When holding her picture

card in a retelling, Cassidy
stated her line from the
story (I see a goldfish
looking at me). She was
fairly loud and clear.

Cassidy

M 9-26
Week 6

LA-Writing-Focus:
Working in groups to
sort items by sight
during a STEM activity.

Cassidy may need

encouragement from the
teacher to share her
viewpoint with the group.

Cassidy told me that she

wanted to sort the shapes
by color, but she did not
tell her tablemates. They
sorted by other
characteristics.

Cassidy

TH 9-29
Week 6

LA-Writing-Focus:
Spelling color names.
When called to the board,
Cassidy spelled the word
blue correctly, writing the
lowercase e a little bit
bigger than the other
letters.

Cassidy

TH 9/29

Math Focus: Singing

We have been learning to

spell these words
primarily through song.
Cassidy must do fairly
well learning from and
auditory standpoint. I will
keep an eye out for more
examples of this in the
future.

Cassidy continues to

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Week 6

shape songs and

counting forward.

quietly practice speaking

during all class activities.

Cassidy quietly sang along

with the circle attribute
song and counted quietly
with the class.

Cassidy

M 10/3
Week 7

LA Focus: Identifying
capital and lowercase
letters by name on the
interactive whiteboard.

Cassidy seems to work

well chorally naming
letters and numbers in
class.

Cassidy said almost all

letter names correctly.

Cassidy

M 10/3
Week 7

Math Focus:
Restarting the calendar
for the new month and
the counting sequence.
Cassidy said the name of
the new month and sang
the days of the week with
the class.

Cassidy

T- 10/4
Week 7

LA-Writing-Focus:
Forming the letters
D,A,d,r,e,n.
Cassidy wrote all letters
correctly and participated
with all parts of the
activity that involved
speaking.

Cassidy

T- 10/4
Week 7

Math Focus: Counting

Pennies on a Ten
Frame.
Cassidy is naming the final
number in each count
without counting the other

It is hard to tell whether

or not she recognized the
month vocabulary card
from a visual standpoint
or if she had learned the
name of the month from
an auditory standpoint.

Cassidy is on target with

recognizing many of her
letters on a consistent
basis.

Cassidy may rely more on

visual learning style than
on the auditory act of
counting aloud. She is
beginning to demonstrate
the academic language

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Cassidy

M- 10/10
Week 8

objects aloud. She uses

the term equal to describe
groups.

used in class.

LA-Writing: Focus on
tracing and writing the
letter A in capital and
lowercase form.

Cassidy appears to work

diligently with a great
deal of focus.

All of Cassidys capital and

lowercase letters were well
formed.

Cassidy

T 10/11
Week 8

LA-Reading: Focus on
the sight word the.
Cassidy pronounces the as
/th/ //.

Cassidy

T- 10/11
Week 8

Math: Focus on finding

numerals hidden behind
cards on a number line.
Cassidy was able to
describe that children were
identifying the hidden
numbers by looking at
which numbers came after
those that were not
hidden.

Cassidy

TH 10/13
Week 8

Math: Focus on reading a

bar graph.
Cassidy identified that
sunny had the greatest
quantity of days on the
class weather graph. She
explained that it had six
days while cloudy only had

This may be a single

occurrence or there may
be some dialect
differences at home.
Watch for differences in
dialect, if any, when
Cassidy speaks.

Cassidy is developing
strategies for counting on
from a given number. She
is able to give very
precise explanations of
her answers.

Cassidy is developing a
sense of comparing
numbers using quantity
as a basis.

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four days.

Cassidy

M 10/17

Week 9

Cassidy

10/17/16

LA Reading: Focus on
the sight words go, to and
we.
Cassidy repeated each of
the sight words when
chorally reading with the
class. She appeared to be
forming the letter sounds
correctly at an appropriate
volume.

Math Focus on flash and

build using unifix cubes.

Week 9
After being shown a ten
frame display card and
building what she saw,
Cassidy replied to several
of the teachers questions
by using hand signals for
numbers.

Cassidy

Th 10/20/16

LA Reading: Review of
previously learned sight
words.

Cassidy seems to be
getting louder and more
confident in her choral
reading than she was at
the beginning of the year.

Cassidy seems to be
equally comfortable with
using verbal and
nonverbal methods to
communicate the names
of numbers.

This was very similar to

Mondays observation.

Week 9
Cassidy was reading all
sight words with the class
during choral readings.

Cassidy

M 10-20-16

Math: Focus on
comparing two quantities
of numbers.

Cassidy came in a little bit

late from going to her

During lesson week and

unit week, specific plans
may need to be
developed for catching
Cassidy up if she misses
part of a lesson for
speech.

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speech class. She was
saying the answers with
the class, but I am not sure
if she was getting it or just
repeating what her
classmates were saying.

Cassidy

M 10-24-16
Week 10

LA Reading: Focus on
pictorial retelling with a
beginning, middle and
ending.

Cassidy seems to follow

directions well at all
times.

Cassidy was able to order

all pictures correctly under
the headings beginning,
middle and ending.

Cassidy

Th 10-27-16
Week 10

LA Identifying letters and

sounds in the alphabet.
Cassidy easily identified
the letter c and said that it
was because it is in her
name.

Cassidy

M 10-31-16
Week 11

LA Writing: Focus on
the process of think, draw,
write.
Cassidys drawings were
very detailed during prewriting. For example, she
colored her sister in her
sisters favorite color.

Cassidy

M 10-31-16
Week 11

Math: Focus is on adding,

subtracting and tallying
with popsicle sticks.
Cassidy
completed
problems correctly.

all

This is typical of children

at Cassidys
developmental level.

The fact that Cassidy

referenced her sisters
favorite color instead of
her own shows that she is
gaining an understanding
of the needs and
preferences of others.

Cassidy appears to work

very well with all math
manipulatives that we
have used so far.

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Cassidy

T 11-1-16
Week 11

LA Focus on a preassessment of stretching

words
Phonetically.

Cassidy demonstrated a
good grasp on pairing
initial and final consonant
sounds with their
corresponding letters.

On the assessment she

wrote lk for log, pen for
pin, and nt for nut.

Cassidy

M 11-7-16
Week 12

LA Literacy Stations:
Focus on listening to
reading.
Cassidy worked diligently
on Listen to Reading.
She does not use her
glasses at this station.

Cassidy

T 11-8-16

Math

Focus
on
explaining the work place
Beat You to Ten.

Week 12
Cassidy mentioned there
were two trains of cubes to
the left and two trains of
cubes to the right of the
spinner.

More observation is
needed to see if she does
not like to use her glasses
when reading.

Cassidy is starting to see

symmetry and is building
a basic understanding of
doubles. This may point
toward the development
of a strong visual learning
modality.