Physical Descriptions
Her hair is wavy and a mousy bland, with a kinky wave effect. Her face is round-ish and she has brown eyes. She has a thin physique and walks in a proud and mature fashion. She dresses smartly and in fashionable clothes, even when she is just playing out in her street. I guess she gets this from her older sister, Bethany. She loves to do hair and make-up as any girl of her age does. Many times, I have done her older sister’s hair and she would eagerly want me to do hers as well. When Jess is confronted with older children who tell her to do something in a negative way, she is also keen to sick up for herself and get her point across that they cannot boss her about.
Home Environment
Her house is a detached house with a front and back garden, which she uses regularly. She has a trampoline in her back garden and several toys in which she can play with. Her house has three bedrooms, so Jessica has her own room, which she will benefit from when she grows up. She lives with her sister called Bethany and her mum, Kim and her two rabbits.
Local environment
The house is situated in a town where many shops are close by, which is convenient for her mother. There is also a doctors and a developing surgery when operations ca take place and a library and café will be available there too. There is a 30-second walk to a school, which is right behind her house. There is also a newly build school 3 minutes walk away as well, which has a nursery and playgroup. There is a 5-minute drive to a park where a community centre is available as well. Here she can go to a care group and can join in sports of all kinds. E.g. running, dance and martial arts. She lives on a street so is away from any busy roads where she could get hurt. There is a patch of grass outside her house where he mother can keep an eye on her and there is a large field across the road where she can play all sorts of sports.
Physical Development
Fine manipulative skills
Jessica can hold a pencil in a tripod grasp and moves mostly in an up-down motion. She is a clean little girl, as she always washes her hands after getting them dirty. She even moaned to wash them because she got sticky hands after making cupcakes on my first visit. She can brush her own hair and moves her head while doing so.
Gross motor skills
Jessica can run confidently as she often does when running to her friends houses only up the street. I have noticed that when she plays with her friends she enjoys hopping and skipping, and often holds out her arms away from her body to balance, to do so.
Intellectual Development
When I asked her to count, she could count very confidently. She could count past 30, and then started to say random numbers higher than the last one she recited. She is very confident on her colours when I asked her to name the colour of the decorations on top of the cakes we made. She also knows most basic shapes but got confused with the rectangle and mistook it for a square. She asks many questions about what people are doing and asks if she can assist. For example when we were making cupcakes, she asked what ingredients I needed to make them, and repeatedly informed me.
Communication and speech
She can speak confidently and often corrects people when they are wrong, even her own mum. She laughs at them and shakes her head. She will talk in a complex way to her young friends to show that she is at an advanced level. When talking to an adult she will act and talk her age, as if to say I’m only young and with strangers she will behave very shy.
Emotional development
Positive
She gradually grew closer to me as I helped her and gave her all my attention on the first visit. She sat on my lap while her sister was on the computer and when I had to go she refused to get off my lap and pleaded me to stay . Emotionally she is a very confident girl and only cry’s when she has hurt herself and not for.
Negative
She is quite cheeky as most children I have met at her age are. She told me one day that her mother was annoying her because she was hovering upstairs and was making aloud noise. She said, “Do you know what, my mummy’s really annoying me today”, then started shouting to her mom to quieten down.
Social Development
Jess is very confident and will play with anybody. She is not mean with any other kids, is fair, and shares with others around her. She loves to play mums and dads, and acts like that towards other children. She likes telling them what to do and is really organised when planning a game. When I did my first visit she worked well in a group and did her part making and cleaning up after the cupcakes. Jessica is a sociable person and likes to chat while working, and understands what acceptable behaviour. She can cooperate well and understands the need to work as a team and not individually when unnecessary .
