Breast-fed? No problems with latching on. Breast mild was then expressed for a short while then Sana was put on SMA gold milk.
Sana had a stomach reflux from birth, which caused her to keep bringing up milk she had just drunk. She eventually grew out of this when weaning began.
Physical Skills-Most acquired except skipping, Can run, walk, etc she attends a nursery where she has a short “fun active session” where they concentrate on developing physical skills.
Social Skills- Attended a nursery for two years until it closed down. She made lots of friends and when mum came to collect her she always used to be very loud. She now has a childminder and she plays with a boy named Thomas who is slightly younger than her. She also attends a new nursery for a few hours a day where she socialises. She can talk fairly well and can be understood by strangers and family. Sometimes when unfamiliar people talk to her she will not respond but just stare at them. Usually she becomes more sociable with unfamiliar people after a short while and begins talking. At home she communicates very well with family. She is able to ask for what she wants. She is able to tell what she has done in the day and she can be inquisitive. She is able to share moderately well but will want to play with the same toy another child is playing with. She rarely snatches. When playing games she has problems accepting she can’t always win.
Intellectual skills-Sana is able to say the alphabet in a song form and read 13 alphabet letter sounds. She can do upto 14 piece jigsaws independently. She is able to count to 10 and read the numbers upto 10. She is able to understand the concept of the words “big and small” “True and false” “Fat and thin” “Right and wrong” as well as being able to understand positional language e.g.-on top of/behind/next to. She is able to count out objects e.g. if you ask her to count 4 buttons and give them to you she can count out four buttons and give them to you. However occasionally she makes mistakes and loses count. If she loses count then she often begins from one again even though there may already be 3 buttons in her hand. After reading a story to her she is able to answer questions relating to the book.
Emotional skills-Can communicate emotions well. If she is asked how she is feeling she can say happy or explain why she is crying.
Vaccinations
Any current health problems? Sana also suffers from mild eczema and has recently grown out of asthma.
Television
Child development folder
Toys Family
Videos
Magazines and books
Nurses and doctors
Textbooks such as childcare and development, O.C.R development and Birth to 5 years
Activities that encourage social development
Are those, which bring a child into the company
Of other people both inside and outside the
House. For example
Family outings
Parent and toddler groups
Nursery
Friends
School child-minders
Park
Swimming
Soft play centres
What affects a child’s feelings?
Possible inheritance
Familiar sounds
Eye to eye contact ill
Familiar smells
State of health
Skin to skin contact
Love
At 3 years of age self-confidence should be increasing. More sociable but plays alone. Parallel play. Developed feelings of security. Develops a caring attitude for to others and very sensitive to the moods of the household and the individuals within it. Children of this age are usually friendly with other children and will want to play with other children apart from family. They become more relaxed in situations outside the home. They are co-operative and eager to please with understanding and kind management. Children of this particular age respond to kind and consistent discipline. They understand the concept of taking turns. This is how they learn social skills. Children of this age tend to talk to their teddies and dolls. Occasionally children aged 3-4 applies emotions to the teddy or doll for example-Teddy can’t go to sleep-not admitting own fear. They begin to act like adults in their play and use real life situations like “playing doctors”. Children can cope with change well now and they become more patient and co-operative. Personal relationships are now discovered through role-play. They also show signs of sibling rivalry appearing and needs parental intervention.
At 3 years of age Sana has plenty of self-confidence. I think due to a lot of time spent at nursery socialising with other children has developed her social and emotional side very well. She is very interested in imaginative play and enjoys playing doctors and nurses, the tweenies, cooking for a picnic, going to the park etc. She talks to her teddies and dolls and enjoys mothering them. Sana can be self-Centred and sometimes cries when she is asked to wait but recently her patience has grown. She responds better when asked to wait rather than being shouted at. Playing imaginative games appears to help her with real life situations. Recently she went to have her booster vaccinations for Diphtheria, polio, tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella. She had to go to the doctors to have these done. At home Sana’s mum told Sana she would have to go to the doctors to have “injections” so playing imaginative games involving injections, doctors etc helped her prepare to go and have her vaccinations.
Other development areas in Physical development-
Motor skills-This requires co-ordination between the brain and muscles.
Gross Motor skills- Use the large muscles in the body and include walking, running, climbing, kicking and throwing.
Fine manipulative skills-Involve precise use of the hands and fingers for pointing, drawing, doing up buttons, writing and using a knife and fork.
At the age of 3 a child should have developed fine muscle co-ordination. Possible attempting to cut paper and feed herself well. A child will attempt to dress herself and may be able to perform simple tasks as well as being able to do the basic running walking etc. (physically disabled children may not be able to do all of the basic running, walking, jumping, etc)
Sana is able to do the basic running, jumping, walking, she is able to do her buttons and able to do up zips. She isn’t as good at balancing on one leg and she isn’t able to hop very well at all. She is able to kick and throw but not very good at aiming at things. She is able to feed herself but cannot use a knife very well as this hasn’t been encouraged much at home. She has managed most of the basic skills.
Speech-Speech is an important means of communication. Talking enables people to exchange information tell others about feelings and discuss problems.
Age 3-A child’s speech is usually easy to understand at this age by strangers however grammar is often incorrect and may have a lisp e.g.- Red is said “Wed”
Sana is easily understood by strangers however hasn’t quite grasped all rules of grammar. She refers to people by either he or she regardless of what they are e.g. she might use the word “he” regarding a girl. Sometimes she mispronounces words such as cardigan and says it as “Cardinan”. She also has a lisp where she pronounces “th” as “f” in a lot of cases. Overall her speech is clear to family and unfamiliar people. She also uses thank you and please in the correct places.
Sight-The ability to see clearly and distinguish different colours.
Age 3-A child begins to show a sense of colour from the age of 2 and half years old. From then on there is gradual improvement in the ability to recognise different colours. From 5 years old children can usually manage to recognise 4/5 colours
Sana can see clearly with no problems at all. She knows many colours-
Here is a short test I carried out-
And fine manipulative skills.