Progress Report: Tumisho Selaelo Mpobane by Cindy van Heerden

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Educator: Tracey Trollip

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Principal: Mercia Cruickshank

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Date Of Birth: 21/02/2022

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Height: 99 cm

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Weight: 14.4 kg

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Body Awareness:

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Tumisho demonstrates excellent body awareness and can confidently identify and name a wide range of body parts, including her head, shoulders, neck, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tummy, back, arms, legs, knees, feet and toes. She shows good balance and coordination, moving confidently through space and enjoying a variety of physical activities, such as dancing, stretching and making big, expressive movements. She also demonstrates growing fine motor control and spatial awareness, as shown by her ability to draw a recognisable body image. Her enthusiasm for movement and physical exploration highlights her developing strength, coordination and confidence in using her body. She enjoys showing her movements to friends and often participates actively in group movement games and exercises. Excellent work!

Fine Motor:

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Tumisho demonstrates excellent fine motor skills and shows growing control and precision in her movements. She holds her crayon using the correct tripod grip and demonstrates clear right-hand dominance, confidently tracing over simple lines and colouring within them. She can hold paper and scissors correctly and cut along lines independently with supervision. She enjoys a variety of fine motor activities, including tearing paper, threading beads onto a string, and completing a 12-piece puzzle on her own. She demonstrates good pincer grip control, easily picking up small objects and manipulating materials during activities. She also enjoys sensory play and loves exploring textures through playdough, spreading glue, and experimenting with different craft materials. Her hand-eye coordination is developing well through activities such as building with blocks, stacking, and manipulating small toys. Her enthusiasm and focus during these activities demonstrate determination and growing skill.

Gross Motor:

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Tumisho demonstrates excellent gross motor skills, showing strength, coordination and control in a variety of physical activities. She confidently participates in running, jumping, hopping, skipping, climbing and balancing games, always approaching them with energy and enthusiasm. She particularly enjoys outdoor play and eagerly takes part in obstacle courses, crawling through tunnels, climbing over and under objects, jumping from one spot to another, and walking along the balance beam with growing confidence. She also shows great skill and enjoyment in ball activities, confidently throwing, catching, rolling and kicking balls during play. Her active participation highlights not only her physical abilities but also her determination and enjoyment of movement. Her skill, confidence and joy during physical activities make her a natural explorer in the playground and an inspiring participant in group games.

Visual Development:

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Tumisho demonstrates strong visual perceptual skills and is becoming increasingly confident in observing and organising visual information. She can identify and name a wide range of colours, including yellow, red, green, blue, orange, purple, pink, brown, black and white. She recognises and names various shapes, such as circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, star, heart and diamond. She can follow simple patterns, for example, alternating colours or shapes in a sequence, and is able to match objects based on colour, shape or size. She enjoys sorting activities, such as grouping blocks by colour, sorting buttons by size or arranging objects in order, demonstrating her growing ability to categorise and organise information visually. She also enjoys more complex visual tasks, such as completing simple puzzles, copying basic patterns and identifying similarities and differences between objects. Her keen observation, attention to detail and focus during these activities highlight her excellent visual perceptual development.

Auditory Development:

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Tumisho shows excellent auditory development and enjoys engaging with sounds in a variety of ways. She loves story time and actively participates in discussions, confidently answering and asking questions. She takes part in conversations with ease, demonstrating strong listening and verbal skills. She can distinguish between loud and soft noises and is able to identify a wide range of sounds, including animal noises, environmental sounds such as doorbells or passing cars, and musical sounds. She also enjoys imitating sounds, singing along to songs, and experimenting with rhythms and beats during music and movement activities. Her strong listening skills, attention to detail, and curiosity about sounds reflect her growing auditory awareness and her enthusiasm for learning through listening.

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Art:

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Tumisho shows wonderful enthusiasm and creativity in her visual arts activities. She enjoys exploring a variety of materials, including paint, crayons, textured papers and other craft items, experimenting freely to create unique effects. She is developing excellent control over her tools, confidently using brushes, crayons and other implements to produce shapes, lines and patterns. She loves exploring colours, often mixing them to discover new shades, and enjoys sensory art experiences such as pasting, tearing and layering different textures in her work. She eagerly shares her creations with others, showing great confidence, pride and joy in her achievements. Her imagination, curiosity and creativity shine through in every piece she makes. Well done!

Music and Rhythm:

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Tumisho has a natural love for music and rhythm and thoroughly enjoys exploring sound and movement. She dances with great enthusiasm and confidence, often creating her own moves and expressing herself freely to the beat. She eagerly experiments with a variety of instruments, exploring the different sounds she can make, and quickly learns new songs, even attempting to sing along the very first time she hears them. She shows excellent listening skills, rhythm awareness and coordination, delighting in combining singing, movement and instrument play. She also enjoys performing for her friends, putting on little shows and sharing her creativity with joy and confidence. Her energy, imagination and love for music make her a joyful participant in all musical activities.

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Tumisho is an independent and confident girl with a warm and caring nature. She approaches each day with enthusiasm and is always eager to learn and participate in activities. She easily makes friends and enjoys outdoor play, showing great joy in social interactions. Tumisho enjoys working alongside her peers and is gradually developing her social skills, including sharing and waiting her turn. On occasion, she finds it challenging to wait or share because she is eager to help her friends and show them first what to do. With gentle encouragement, she is making steady progress and demonstrates growing consideration for others. Her positive attitude and excitement for school are infectious, brightening the classroom with her energy, curiosity and joyful spirit.

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Tumisho has made outstanding progress in her language development and continues to impress us every day. Although she initially did not speak English when she started this year, she has quickly learned and can now communicate in full, understandable sentences, using a growing vocabulary with clear pronunciation. She enjoys singing songs, reciting nursery rhymes and joining in finger plays, which further supports her language growth and confidence in speaking. She also demonstrates an interest in additional languages, confidently copying words in Zulu and Afrikaans and beginning to make simple signs in sign language. Her enthusiasm for language, communication and exploring new ways to express herself is truly a joy to see. What a little superstar!

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Tumisho is making excellent progress in her early literacy skills. She shows a keen interest in books and stories, listening attentively during story time and engaging with both pictures and text. She is beginning to recognise some letters of the alphabet and enjoys repeating letter sounds and simple words. She demonstrates curiosity about print in her environment, noticing labels, signs and familiar words. She also enjoys mark-making and early writing activities, using crayons, pencils and other tools to draw lines, shapes and simple pictures. Her enthusiasm for listening, speaking and mark-making is helping to build a strong foundation for continued literacy development.

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Tumisho is making excellent progress in her numeracy skills and demonstrates a strong understanding of early mathematical concepts. She confidently counts aloud from 0 to 20 and can recognise numbers up to 10. She understands basic number concepts such as more and less, big and small, and can compare quantities accurately. She enjoys hands-on numeracy activities, including counting objects, sorting items by size or colour, and matching numbers to corresponding quantities.

In addition, she shows a keen interest in shapes and patterns. She can confidently recognise and name a variety of shapes and complete simple sequencing tasks, such as arranging coloured blocks in repeating patterns. She also enjoys visual activities that involve sorting, matching and classifying objects, which support her developing understanding of spatial relationships and early problem-solving skills. Her curiosity, enthusiasm and confidence in exploring numbers, shapes and patterns make her a strong and eager student.

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Tumisho, it has been such a joy to watch you grow and shine this year! Your smile, energy and curiosity brighten every day, and your enthusiasm for learning, playing and creating is truly inspiring. You have worked so hard and learned so much. Keep being confident, kind and curious—you are capable of amazing things! We will miss your laughter and your dancing around the classroom, my little superstar.

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