Boing's Progress Report

Progress Report of Manuel C. Galvez IV
2nd Semester 2007-2008
The Learning Tree

Teacher Ruby (Jr. Kinder Teacher)- During the second semester, BOING has shown tru appreciation of literary activities presented to him. Read-Alone Time is an activity that he enjoys a lot. He would ask teacher if he can borrow the Scholastic Series that teacher has on her shelf. His books of choice would usually be the animal stories, riddle picture books and Dr. Seuss but he also enjoys poring over the big books and would ask teacher to place the cassette tape along to the story. One of his favorite big book is Jamberry by Bruce Degen. Continue to provide him with opportunities to exercise his phonetic awareness skills by providing games, for instance, forming words by changing the beginning, middle or final letter, encourage his love for reading through story telling before bedtime, asking open-ended question about the story read. You can check on his comprehension by asking him to draw what was read to him or to answer specific question about the story.

BOING has also shown excellent body coordination. He did not have any difficulties in following the Muslim dance steps for the Christmas Program. He can easily follow instruction on how to move his body. He truly enjoys playing "stop dance", and his is really quite good at in that teacher thinks that he doesn't even blink. The role of music and dance in preschool curriculum is quite important because music is a way of knowing. According to Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner (1983), music intelligence is equal in importance to logical - mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily - kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence. According to Thomas Armstrong (1994,5), "Intelligence is galvanized by participation in some kind of culturally valued activity and that the individual's growth in such an activity follows a developmental pattern; each activity has its own time arising in early childhood." It will be beneficial for BOING to be exposed to creative pursuits such as TREE-atro (theater workshop in the Grade school) and art classes aside from reading and writing activities.

Activity Period is where BOING's creativity would come to fore, any task given to him be it drawing about something we have read in class to writing a letter to a friend, he would always meticulously do his work. And you can expect that it will be as colorful as a rainbow. It is always refreshing to see him work in such way. He exudes so much fun in learning.

It was really a pleasure to have BOING in my class. May the Lord continue to bless you and your family.