Nanea Update

Nanea is beginning to:

• be able to look at a situation differently or delay gratification; take turns; sustain balance during complex movement experiences; hold drawing and writing tools by using a three-point finger grip but may hold the instrument to close to one end; understood by most people; may mispronounce new, long, or unusual words; 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; sustain work on age-appropriate, interesting tasks; can ignore most distractions and interruptions; solve problems without having to try every possibility; place objects in 2 or more groups based on differences in a single characteristic, e.g., color, size, or shape; draw or construct, and then identifies what it is; to ask and answer questions about the text; refers to pictures; verbally count to 20; count 10-20 objects accurately; know the last number states how many in all; tells what number (1-10) comes next in order by counting; use and respond appropriately to positional words indicating location, direction, and distance.

Nanea:

• demonstrates confidence in meeting own needs; demonstrates concern about the feelings of others; seeks adult help to resolve social problems; moves purposefully from place to place with control; manipulates balls or similar objects with flexible body movements; responds appropriately to specific vocabulary and simple statements, questions, and stories; follows directions of 2 or more steps that relate to familiar objects and experiences; is understood by most people; may mispronounce new, long or unusual words; engages in conversations of at least three exchanges; uses acceptable language and social rules while communicating with others; may need reminders; uses creativity and imagination during play and routine tasks; recalls familiar people, places, objects, and actions from the past (a few months before); recalls 1 or 2 items removed from view; 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; 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; uses controlled linear scribbles; recognizes and names the number of items in a small set (up of five) instantly; combines and separates up to five objects and describes the parts;identifies numerals to 5 by name and connects each to counted objects; 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.
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