- These girls love each other so much. Nanea is such a good older sister always wanting and willing help Hali'a. She's always watching out for her and making sure Hali'a's okay. Hali'a likes to follow her sister around. But, she also likes to just do her own thing. She is trying to be a little more independent in everything.
Nanea (per Headstart Program she is in):
- Comforts self by seeking out special object or person; accepts redirection from adults; demonstrates confidence in meeting own needs; manages separation without distress and engages with trusted adults; demonstrates concern about the feelings of others; uses successful strategies for entering groups; seeks a preferred playmate; shows pleasure when seeing a friend; seeks adult help to resolve social problems; sustains balance during simple movement experiences; is beginning to; uses refined wrist and finger movements; grips drawing and writing tools with whole hand but may use whole-arm movements to make marks; is beginning to respond appropriately to specific vocabulary and simple statements, questions, and stories; follows directions of two or more steps that relate to familiar object and experiences; is understood by most people; may mispronounce new, long, or unusual words; observes and imitates how other people solve problems; asks for a solution and uses it; uses creativity and imagination during play and routine tasks; recalls familiar people, places, objects and actions from the past; recalls 1 or 2 items removed from view; remember sequence of personal routines and experiences with teacher support; draws or constructs, and then identifies what it is; sings songs and recites rhymes and refrains with repeating initial sounds; recognizes and names a few letters in own name; orients book correctly; turns pages from front of the book to the back; recognizes familiar books by their covers; shows understanding that text is meaningful and can be read; contributes particular language from the book at the appropriate time; pretends to read a familiar book, treating each page as a separate unit; names and describes what is on each page, using pictures as cues; retells some events from familiar story with close adult prompting; uses controlled linear scribbles; verbally counts to 10; counts up to five objects accurately, using one number name for each object; recognizes and names the number of items in a small set (up to 5) instantly; combines and separates up to five objects and describes the parts; identifies a few basic shapes (circle, square, triangle); compares and orders a small set of objects as appropriate according to size, length, weight, area, or volume; knows usual sequence of basic daily events and a few ordinal numbers; copies simple repeating patterns.
- is beginning to: to take turns, to move purposefully from place to place with control, manipulate balls or similar objects with flexible body movements, describe and tell the use of many familiar items, use complete 4-6 word sentences, tell simple stories about objects, events, and people not present; lacks many details and a conventional beginning, middle, and end; engage in conversations of at least 3 exchanges; use acceptable language and social rules while communicating with others; may need reminders; sustain work on age-appropriate, interesting tasks; can ignore most distractions and interruptions; plan and pursue a variety of appropriately challenging tasks; to show eagerness to learn abut a variety of topics and ideas; place objects in 2 or more groups based on differences in single characteristic e.g. color, size, or shape; to act out familiar or imaginary scenarios; may use props to stand for something else; fill in the missing rhyming work; generate rhyming words spontaneously; hear and show awareness of separate words in sentences; identify the sounds of few letters; identify numerals to 5 by name and connects each to counted objects; use and respond appropriately to positional words indicating location, direction, and distance.
Hali'a (Per Headstart Program she is in):
- Uses adult support to calm self; responds to changes in an adults tone of voice and expression; uses trusted adult as a secure base from which to explore the world; reacts to others' emotional expressions; plays near other children; uses similar materials or actions; responds to simple verbal requests accompanied by gestures or tone of voice; engages in simple back-and-forth exchanges with others; pays attention to sights and sounds; repeats actions to obtain similar results; reacts to a problems; seeks to achieve a specific goal; uses senses to explore the immediate environment; recognizes familiar people, places, and objects; looks for hidden object where it was last seen; show interest in books.
- Is beginning to:
- seek to do things for self; seek a preferred playmate; shows pleasure when seeing a friend; respond appropriately to others' expressions of wants; express feelings during a conflict; experiment with different ways of moving; experiment with different ways of balancing; manipulate balls or similar objects with stiff body movements to manipulate and explore objects; grasp drawing and writing tools, jabbing at paper; identify familiar people, animals, and objects when prompted; name familiar people, animals, and objects; use some words and word-like sounds and is understood by most familiar people; use 1 or 2 word sentences or phrases; respond to speech by looking at the speaker; watches for signs of being understood when communicating; imitate others in using objects in new and/or unanticipated ways; look for familiar persons when they are names; related objects to events; recognize people, objects, and animals in pictures or photographs; imitate actions of others during play; use real objects as props.
