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Jasmine demonstrates excellent body awareness and shows great confidence in understanding and controlling her body. She can confidently name and identify all her outer body parts, including her head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, shoulders, arms, elbows, hands, fingers, chest, tummy, back, legs, knees, feet and toes. She moves with purpose and coordination, showing a strong understanding of spatial concepts such as up and down, in and out, over and under, as well as variations in speed, including fast and slow.

She follows movement instructions with ease, demonstrating growing confidence, control and physical awareness. Enjoying activities that require balance, stretching and coordinated movements, she always shows focus and enthusiasm. She has begun drawing recognisable faces, reflecting her emerging understanding of her own body and its features. Her awareness of herself and her movements is impressive for her age.

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Jasmine is making excellent progress in her fine motor development and demonstrates impressive control and coordination for her age. She has established right-hand dominance and uses her right hand confidently during a wide range of activities. She holds her crayons, pencils and paintbrushes with a correct tripod grip, showing both precision and strength in her hands. She enjoys drawing, colouring within the lines, tracing patterns and is beginning to create recognisable shapes and faces with increasing accuracy.

She takes great pleasure in hands-on activities, enjoying tearing and pasting paper, threading beads onto strings, building with small blocks and completing puzzles that require careful manipulation. She is skilled at picking up small objects with a pincer grip, opening containers and handling tools such as scissors with guidance. Jasmine also engages enthusiastically in sensory and creative activities, including rolling, pinching and shaping playdough, as well as exploring textures, gluing and stamping. Her fine motor skills are developing beautifully, and she consistently shows focus, patience and pride in completing tasks that require careful hand-eye coordination.

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Jasmine is making outstanding progress in her gross motor development and demonstrates excellent physical confidence and coordination. She enjoys active play and eagerly participates in a wide variety of physical activities, always showing enthusiasm and focus. She runs with great balance and control, easily changing direction while maintaining stability. She loves jumping games and can jump forward, backward and over small obstacles with both feet together, demonstrating strength and coordination.

Obstacle courses are among her favourite activities. She climbs under, over and through objects with agility and confidence, demonstrating excellent spatial awareness and problem-solving skills. She is also developing strong ball skills, able to throw, catch, kick and roll a ball with accuracy and control. Her ability to perform cross-body movements, such as touching opposite hands to knees, shows impressive coordination and integration of both sides of her body. Her confidence in movement, combined with determination and joy for active play, reflects her ongoing growth and development in gross motor skills. Great work!

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Jasmine is making excellent progress in her visual development and demonstrates strong observation and recognition skills. She can confidently identify and name a wide range of shapes, including circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, stars, hearts and ovals. She also recognises a variety of colours such as red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, black, white and brown with ease.

She is skilled at identifying familiar objects in pictures or real-life settings, including animals, food items, classroom tools and household items. She demonstrates strong visual discrimination, noticing similarities and differences between objects, pictures and patterns. Jasmine enjoys engaging in matching, sorting and sequencing activities based on colour, size, shape and pattern, completing these tasks with accuracy and confidence.

She also enjoys puzzles and can independently complete a 12-piece puzzle, using logic, problem-solving and visual cues to guide her. She can follow multi-step visual instructions and replicate both simple and more complex patterns using beads, blocks or coloured shapes, showing excellent attention to detail and concentration. Her visual perceptual skills are developing beautifully, and she approaches visual tasks with curiosity, focus and determination.

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Jasmine demonstrates excellent auditory skills and listens attentively during story time, showing a strong ability to recall and respond to questions about what she has heard. She enjoys engaging in songs, rhymes and musical games, often joining in confidently with the correct words, rhythm and actions. She is able to follow verbal instructions involving one or more steps and responds appropriately, demonstrating that she understands and processes information effectively.

She is also developing strong sound recognition skills, able to identify and imitate a wide range of sounds, including animal noises, environmental sounds and those produced by musical instruments. She can differentiate between variations in sound, such as loud and soft, high and low, and fast and slow, showing growing auditory discrimination and attention to detail. Her enthusiasm for listening activities, combined with her ability to respond thoughtfully, highlights her impressive auditory development.

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Jasmine shows wonderful enthusiasm for visual arts and demonstrates creativity and imagination in all her artistic activities. She enjoys exploring a wide variety of materials and techniques, including drawing, painting and crafting, consistently producing colourful and expressive pieces. She has a particular love for using glitter, carefully applying it to highlight specific areas of her artwork, showing both attention to detail and a strong sense of design.

Jasmine confidently uses tools such as paintbrushes, glue sticks, sponges and stamps, experimenting with different textures and effects to enhance her creations. She enjoys combining materials and colours in unique ways, reflecting her creativity and artistic vision. She takes pride in her work and often shares her art with her peers and teachers, demonstrating joy and confidence in her abilities. Her imagination, attention to detail and love for creative expression make her artwork truly special and delightful.

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Jasmine has a wonderful love for music and rhythm and shows great enthusiasm for singing, dancing and exploring sounds. She enjoys singing along to familiar songs, often joining in confidently with the words, melody and rhythm. She loves to express herself through dance, showing creativity and energy in her movements, and enjoys demonstrating her own routines to her peers and teachers.

Jasmine quickly learns new songs and dances, following beats accurately and experimenting with rhythm in fun and engaging ways. She is curious about the different sounds that musical instruments can make and enjoys exploring how to create a variety of tones and effects. Participating enthusiastically in group music activities and games, she shows focus, coordination and a natural sense of timing. Her joy for music and movement is contagious, and her confidence and creativity shine whenever she sings, dances or plays instruments.

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Jasmine is a gentle and warm-hearted little girl who brings a sense of calm and kindness to the classroom. She is loving and caring towards her friends, always willing to share and take turns, and shows a natural sense of empathy in her interactions. Demonstrating a strong sense of independence, she confidently tries new tasks while also knowing when to ask for help. She consistently uses polite language, saying “please” and “thank you,” reflecting her respect for others.

She enjoys being part of the school community and engages positively with both peers and teachers. Jasmine works well in group activities, offering help and encouragement to those around her, and takes pride in contributing to collaborative tasks. Over the year, she has shown remarkable growth in expressing her emotions, articulating her feelings with confidence and understanding. Her emotional awareness continues to develop beautifully, and she is becoming increasingly confident in navigating social situations.

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Jasmine is making great progress in her early literacy development. She enjoys repeating sounds and letters after her teacher, showing enthusiasm for learning and a growing awareness of letter sounds. She has begun to learn her letters by identifying pictures associated with each one, helping her to make connections between sounds and symbols. She demonstrates curiosity and interest in books, stories and print, often pointing to pictures and letters and attempting to name them.

She is developing her listening and speaking skills through songs, rhymes and storytelling, which strengthens her phonemic awareness and understanding of language. She enjoys tracing letters and shapes and, with guidance, is beginning to recognise some letters independently. Fantastic progress!

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Jasmine demonstrates excellent language skills and speaks confidently in full sentences, expressing her thoughts, needs and ideas clearly. She has a well-developed vocabulary and uses new words appropriately in context. She enjoys engaging in conversations with both her peers and teachers, listening attentively when others are speaking and responding thoughtfully.

She enjoys storytelling and can retell familiar stories in her own words, including important details and sequencing events accurately. She can answer questions about stories, share her opinions and discuss her favourite parts, showing understanding and imagination. She is also developing early literacy skills, identifying some letters and the sounds they make, and enjoys singing alphabet songs and reciting rhymes. She confidently recites the days of the week and months of the year, further supporting her language development.

In addition to her home language, she shows enthusiasm for learning additional languages. She is able to listen, repeat and copy words and signs in Afrikaans, isiZulu and sign language, demonstrating curiosity, attention and a willingness to explore new ways of communicating. Her language abilities, both in her home language and additional languages, are developing beautifully, and she continues to grow in confidence and communication every day.

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Jasmine is making excellent progress in her numeracy development and demonstrates a strong understanding of early mathematical concepts. She confidently recognises, sorts and classifies objects by colour, size and shape. She understands important mathematical concepts, including more and less, big and small, long and short, and heavy and light, and applies them in her daily activities.

She enjoys building patterns with blocks, beads and other materials, showing creativity and logical thinking. She can complete simple sequencing tasks and demonstrates curiosity when exploring numbers through songs, rhymes and hands-on learning. She is developing problem-solving skills and enjoys activities that challenge her thinking.

Jasmine can confidently count aloud from 0 to 20 and is beginning to count backward from 10. She recognises and names numbers from 0 to 10 and matches quantities to the correct numeral with accuracy. She enjoys number-based games and often counts objects such as blocks, beads or pictures independently, demonstrating focus and precision. Her enthusiasm for numeracy and natural curiosity make learning numbers, patterns and shapes an exciting and engaging experience. Great job, Jasmine!

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Jasmine has been an absolute joy to teach this year. Watching her grow, learn and express herself has been a true privilege. She brings warmth, kindness and enthusiasm to everything she does, and her thoughtful conversations and caring nature have brightened the classroom every day. Her love for learning, creativity and her friends is truly inspiring, and she approaches each new challenge with confidence and curiosity. I am so proud of all that she has achieved and will truly miss her bright smile, gentle heart and the special joy she brings to everyone around her. Wishing her all the best for next year!