Assessment - Infant - Pride Academy Child Care

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Last

Date of Birth

Assessment Date

Teacher

English/ Language Arts

Yes / No

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Demonstrate continual growth in understanding increasingly complex and varied vocabulary

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Responds to words or gestures

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Recognize familiar objects, people, and voices

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Orient to sounds in the environment

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Use facial expressions to communicate

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Use simple vocalizations to communicate

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Express sounds and patterns of home language

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Jointly attend to an object, event, or person

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Look at books

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Responds to Songs

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Demonstrate interest in hearing a familiar story or book

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Attend to caregiver’s voice while being held and/ or read to

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Use objects such as a crayon to make marks

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Math

Yes / No

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Repeat a movement like a clap

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Explore objects one at a time

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Social Emotional Skills

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Indicate a desire for more

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Gives more when asked

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Shows interest in visual, auditory, and tactile patterns

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Explore how things fit and move

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Put object in, out, on, and off of other things

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Cooperate with a routine

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Explore objects with different shapes and sizes

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Begin to understand that different size containers hold more or less

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Social Emotional Skills

Yes / No

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Responds to own name

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Show interest in environmental choices

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Communicate to indicate physical and emotional needs

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Communicate to express pleasure or displeasure

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Uses cues to signal overstimulation

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Respond positively to adults who provide comfort

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Uses sounds and body to express feelings

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Develop an awareness of transitions, schedules, and routines with adult prompts

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Develop self- soothing when an adult provides comfort techniques

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Express desires and feelings by using

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gestures and actions

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Show awareness of possible conflict by demonstrating distress

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Engages in simple social interactions with adults

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Exhibit caution of unfamiliar adults

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Use key adults as a secure base when exploring the environment

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Notice other children in their environment

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Engage in onlooker play

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Begin to exhibit skills in solitary play

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Respond to a stimulating environment

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Approaches to Play and Learning

Yes / No

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Respond to a stimulating environment

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Show curiosity/ interest in surroundings

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Show eagerness and delight in self, others, and surroundings

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Show budding interest in how objects work

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Try a variety of approaches to get desired outcomes

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Physically explore new ways to use objects and observe results

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Manipulate objects

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Imitate actions

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Examine objects for brief periods of time

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Express discomfort when needs are not met

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Repeat actions to make something happen again

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Engage in onlooker play

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Begin to exhibit skills in solitary play

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Show interest in children who are playing nearby

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Science

Observe and experience the environment using all five senses

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React to changes in light

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Focus attention on sounds, movement, and objects

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Notice cause and effect within the physical environment

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Perform actions with objects and observe results

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Establish activity patterns based on day and night

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Explore and react to different indoor and outdoor surfaces

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Observe and experience the difference in climate/ weather

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Demonstrate interest in and interact with plants, animals, and people

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Demonstrate an interest in human made objects

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Explore and manipulate human made objects

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Observe and show interest in objects, organisms, and events in the environment

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Actively explore the environment

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Repeat actions that causes an interesting effect

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Social Studies

Respond to celebrations and other cultural events if observed

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Engage in onlooker play

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Begin to separate self from others

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Show affection and bonds with familiar adults

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Demonstrate comfort in familiar routines, objects, and materials

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Respond to adult guidance about behavior

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Begin to discover use of body and objects in the environment

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Explore the immediate environment

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Demonstrate preference for specific objects and people

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Interact with the environment to make needs known

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Creative Arts

Responds to music by moving own body

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Experiment with vocalizations and sounds

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Responds to music with body movements

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Explore simple art materials

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Respond to various textures and sensory materials

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Show preference for particular visual stimuli

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Engages in onlooker play

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Begin to exhibit skills in solitary play

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Begin to imitate the actions and expressions of caregivers

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Begin to recognize that certain actions will draw responses

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Physical Health and Growth

Passively participate in health and hygiene- related behaviors initiated by an adult

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Use key adults as a secure base when exploring the environment

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Seek reassurance from a trusted caregiver when encountering an unfamiliar person or object

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Express when hungry

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Show food preferences

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Begin following a regular eating routine

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Demonstrate awareness of different textures of food

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Help with self- feeding

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Manipulate objects to see what will happen

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Show awareness of own body and start to move intentionally

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Interact with adults in physical activities

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Demonstrate hand-eye coordination and participate in a variety of activities to enhance coordination

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Begin to develop coordination and balance often with support

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Develop control of head and back, progressing to arms and legs

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Demonstrate continual progression in oral muscle tone, strength, and range of motion, leading to more complex oral movement and control

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Participate passively in dressing and undressing

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The purpose of this assessment is to inform planning for overall program improvements. This assessment should be done individually during center time or free play by the director, lead teacher or assistant teacher in this particular classroom.

Listen to repetition of familiar words, songs, signs, rhymes, and stories

Demonstrate interest in hearing a familiar story or book

Attend to caregiver’s voice while being held and/ or read to

Assessment – Infant