Family Goals Social-Emotional Development:  Social: Initiate play with other children  Emotional: Control emotions and express them appropriately Cognitive Development:  Mathematics: Recognize numbers and count to 20  Communication and language: Gain confidence when speaking with others  Reading and Literacy: Recognize letters and write his name  Science and Inquiry: Engage in experiments/ explore independently Physical Development:  Fine Motor: Hold pencil correctly every time he writes  Gross Motor: None listed

Teacher Goals Social-Emotional Development:  Social: To initiate play with other children.  Emotional: To control emotions and express them appropriately. Cognitive Development:  Mathematics: To count to twenty and improve one-to-one correspondence.  Communication and language: To have confidence when talking with others.  Reading and Literacy: To recognize all/most letters and write his name.  Science and Inquiry: To initiate science exploration and explore independently. Physical Development:  Fine Motor: To use a tri-pod grasp consistently.  Gross Motor: To strengthen balance.

Early Mathematics 10/21/14 During free play, Kaden played at the quiet manipulative area. He and a classmate played the board game Chutes and Ladders. Both helped each other read what number their spinner landed on, move that many spaces, and they reminded one another whose turn it was. Both Kaden and his classmate worked on identifying numbers on the board and counting while playing the game. Throughout the semester, Kaden has become better at counting and identifying numbers. He sometimes gets numbers in the teens confused but, with teacher assistance, he is able to count to twenty. Mathematics: STANDARD 1 — Number Sense and Operations Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children count with understanding and use numbers to tell how many, describe order, and compare. Benchmark 1. Count by ones to 10 and higher. 2. Count the number of items in a group of up to 10 objects and know that the last number tells how many.

Early Reading & Literacy 9/22/14 During free play, Kaden played a Clifford computer game with one of his friends. Kaden used his recognition of environmental print to decide which areas he wanted to explore on the game. My goal is for Kaden to recognize all or most of the letters and write his name independently. Language and Literacy: STANDARD 1 — Reading Through their explorations, play, and social interactions, children use skills and strategies to get meaning from print. Benchmark 9. Identify at least 10 letters of the alphabet, especially those in their own name.