Parents As Teachers

Tonight we had a visit from our Parents As Teachers teacher, Jennifer. While she was here she played learning games with the girls. Kate looked at a first words book, played with a couple of different shape sorters, and was very busy getting involved in Claire's games. For Claire she brought a huge piece of white paper and traced around Claire, then she asked Claire to put a face on her, give her hair, clothes, and shoes. She kind of did that, but then she just wanted to draw all over the paper. Then the girls thought it was fun to walk on the paper to listen to it crinkle.

She did an evaluation of Claire. Her physical development (things like being able to jump over a piece of paper, hop on one foot, etc.) she is at about a four year old level. Her vocabulary, things like identifying animals and how they move (ex which animal gallops? and she pointed to the horse) and also things like can you put the block on the table? under the table? etc., is much higher...she stopped testing Claire when she reached the 5 year old level. They test until they fail one of the tests. We always knew Claire was a talker!