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Tshedza demonstrates excellent body awareness and shows a strong understanding of her body and its parts. She confidently identifies key body parts, including her head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and tummy. During movement activities, she follows directions with ease, showing a clear understanding of spatial concepts such as up, down, under, over and through.

She exhibits good balance, coordination and control, confidently performing tasks such as standing on one leg while reaching out, walking along a balance beam and navigating obstacle courses. Her ability to coordinate her movements reflects both her physical development and her growing confidence. Additionally, she can draw a recognisable body image, demonstrating developing visual-motor skills and an emerging awareness of body proportions.

Her strong body awareness supports active participation in physical play and structured movement activities.

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Tshedza demonstrates developing fine motor skills with growing confidence and control. She can tear paper independently and pick up small objects using a precise pincer grip. She shows excellent hand–eye coordination and patience when threading a shoelace through a hole or placing beads onto a string. She enjoys stacking blocks, building with interlocking blocks and assembling puzzles, all of which help strengthen her finger control and spatial awareness.

She can trace over simple lines, copy shapes and colour between the lines with increasing precision. She uses scissors correctly with some guidance and is making steady progress in her cutting skills. She also enjoys activities such as spreading glue, manipulating playdough, rolling and pinching clay and drawing detailed pictures, which further refine her hand strength and coordination. She holds her crayon with a correct tripod grip, consistently shows right-hand dominance and takes pride in completing tasks independently.

Her enthusiasm for fine motor activities continues to support her creativity, focus and growing confidence.

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Tshedza demonstrates strong gross motor development and thoroughly enjoys engaging in a wide range of physical activities. She runs, hops, skips and crawls with confidence and control. She participates enthusiastically in ball games, skilfully kicking, catching and throwing with precision. She enjoys running games, relay activities and movement-based challenges that keep her active, engaged and motivated.

Obstacle courses are a particular favourite, and she navigates them with determination and balance, confidently overcoming climbing, jumping and balancing challenges. She responds joyfully to action songs and movement rhymes, demonstrating rhythm, timing and spatial awareness. She also enjoys activities such as dancing, hopping on one leg, balancing on beams and using playground equipment, all of which further strengthen her coordination, stamina and body confidence.

Her enthusiasm and skill in physical play reflect her growing gross motor abilities and her love for active learning. Excellent work!

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Tshedza demonstrates strong visual development and confidently identifies and names a wide range of colours, including red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, black and white. She is also able to recognise and name various shapes, such as circle, triangle, square, rectangle, oval, star, heart and diamond. She can accurately identify everyday objects and pictures, demonstrating growing observational skills and visual awareness.

She shows excellent visual discrimination, comparing objects to notice similarities and differences in size, shape and colour. She enjoys sorting activities, grouping objects according to colour, shape, size and type, which further strengthens her visual-perceptual abilities. She also engages enthusiastically in matching games, puzzles, patterning tasks and memory games that challenge her attention to detail and spatial reasoning. In addition, she can copy simple patterns, complete shape-based art activities and recognise differences in sequences, showing her developing visual-memory skills.

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Tshedza demonstrates strong auditory development and shows a keen interest in listening activities. She listens attentively to stories, follows the plot with understanding and can confidently engage in discussions by asking and answering questions about what she has heard. She is able to identify a wide range of everyday sounds, such as birds chirping, a car hooting or footsteps, and she recognises differences between loud and soft noises, as well as high and low pitches. Excellent!

She enjoys singing songs, reciting nursery rhymes and participating in musical activities, showing good rhythm, pitch recognition and memory. Tshedza particularly enjoys action songs where she can enthusiastically take part in actions. She also responds well to clapping games, musical instruments and sound-based games that require careful listening, demonstrating her ability to focus, discriminate sounds and respond appropriately. Great job!

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Tshedza shows a strong enthusiasm for creative activities and enjoys expressing herself through a variety of visual art experiences. She confidently explores different materials, demonstrating curiosity and imagination in her work. She loves working with playdough, using her hands to roll, pinch and shape it into detailed and imaginative creations. She enjoys painting, colouring and drawing, often experimenting freely with colours, lines and shapes to express her ideas.

She takes delight in incorporating different textures and materials into her artwork, such as pasting paper, fabric or natural objects, which enhances her sensory exploration and creativity. She enjoys cutting, threading and assembling craft materials, showing developing fine motor control and precision. She also engages enthusiastically in group art projects, collaborating with peers while contributing her own ideas and designs. Her creativity, focus and joy in art activities reflect her growing confidence, artistic skills and love for self-expression.

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Tshedza demonstrates a strong interest in music and rhythm, exploring a variety of sounds with curiosity and enthusiasm. She enjoys experimenting with the different sounds her body can make, such as clapping, stomping and using her voice to create rhythms and patterns. She also enjoys exploring musical instruments, experimenting with the tones and sounds they produce.

She participates enthusiastically in both structured and free musical activities, including singing, movement-based exercises and concert practice. She loves to dance freely, moving her body to the rhythm of music and particularly enjoys putting on performances and “shows” for her friends and teachers. Her ability to coordinate movement with music, recognise rhythms and express herself creatively through sound and dance reflects her developing musical awareness and confidence.

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Tshedza is a confident and independent little girl who approaches each day at school with joy and enthusiasm. She interacts warmly with both her peers and teachers, showing genuine care, kindness and respect in all her interactions. She shares and takes turns willingly, demonstrating empathy and consideration for others, and is always ready to offer help to a friend in need, reflecting a strong sense of community and compassion.

She thrives in group activities, collaborating effectively while also taking pride in her individual achievements. She expresses her emotions clearly and appropriately, showing growing self-awareness. She is learning to navigate her feelings and communicate them confidently, which supports her developing resilience and positive social relationships.

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Tshedza demonstrates a strong interest in literacy and enjoys exploring books, stories and literacy-based activities. She listens attentively during story-time, recalling key events, characters and details with confidence. She enjoys copying phonic sounds, identifying pictures and naming objects she sees in books and around the classroom, showing growing awareness of the sounds and symbols in language. She participates enthusiastically in rhymes and songs, demonstrating an understanding of rhythm, rhyme and word patterns.

She enjoys a variety of literacy games, including picture matching, sound sorting, storytelling cards and “I Spy” with letters and sounds. She also engages in mark-making and early writing activities, experimenting with drawing and forming shapes and lines to represent her ideas. Her curiosity and enjoyment of books, stories and interactive literacy games reflect her emerging literacy skills and growing confidence. Fantastic work!

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Tshedza communicates confidently in full, understandable sentences, demonstrating clear and effective language skills. Her vocabulary is expanding rapidly, and she confidently uses new words in everyday conversations to express her thoughts, needs and feelings appropriately. She engages in discussions with curiosity and enthusiasm, asking and answering questions and showing a strong understanding of what is said.

She shows a keen interest in listening and speaking activities, enjoying stories, rhymes, songs and interactive language games that support both her comprehension and expressive abilities. She is also beginning to engage with additional languages, including Afrikaans and isiZulu, as well as basic sign language. She enjoys copying words in these languages and imitating signs, demonstrating curiosity, attentiveness and a growing ability to understand and use new vocabulary and gestures. Her positive attitude towards learning and her developing language abilities reflect her growing communication skills, expressive confidence and readiness to explore multiple languages further. Well done!

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Tshedza demonstrates strong numeracy skills and shows a clear enthusiasm for exploring numbers and mathematical concepts. She can confidently count from 0 to 20 independently and recognises and identifies numbers from 0 to 10. She enjoys counting objects aloud, accurately placing ten or more items in a row and building towers with blocks while counting each one. She also enjoys engaging in practical activities such as sorting toys, threading beads and organising objects, all of which reinforce her counting skills and numerical understanding.

She shows a good understanding of key mathematical concepts, including big and small, heavy and light, long and short, and little and a lot. She is able to sort, match and group objects based on attributes such as colour, shape or size, demonstrating her growing ability to categorise and compare. She enjoys games and activities that involve patterns, sequencing and simple problem-solving, such as completing puzzles, arranging objects in order and following number-based instructions in group activities. Excellent work!

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Tshedza, you are a confident, joyful and caring little girl. Your kindness and friendliness make you a wonderful friend to others, and your cheerful personality lights up the classroom every day. You show great curiosity and enthusiasm for life, always eager to explore, play and share your ideas with those around you. We will miss our little dancer. We are so proud of the happy, confident and thoughtful person you are becoming and know you will continue to bring joy and positivity wherever you go.