Developmental Summary

This document provides a summary of the developmental progress of a child in the areas of physical, social/emotional, language, and cognitive development. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses observed in each area and includes a learning experience plan implemented to enhance the child's development. The document also mentions the links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF).

Developmental Summary
Child name (use first name only): A Age: 3 years Gender:
Developmental
area
What you observe Link to a Learning
Outcome from the EYLF
Physical
development (fine
and gross motor)
I observed three strength in the child during
the activity:
1. The child was able to use his hand to
arrange pasta’s in the string
2. The child was able to use needles to
insert the pastas
3. The child had good fine motor skills
Key weakness observed in the child were as
follows:
1. The child was not able to draw
needles from the strings
2. The child needed help in inserting
pastas in the strings
3. The child struggles to understand the
place of inserting needles
Outcome 1 and Outcome 3
Social/emotional
development Strength:
1. During music making and rhyming
game, the child was cooperating with
other children
2. The child showed interest in rhyming
3. The child was active
Weakness:
1. The child was not good at rhyming
2. The child lacked communication skills
3. The child was apprehensive
Outcome 1, outcome 2
and outcome 3
Language
development
Strength:
1. The baby was singing the head,
shoulder and knee song
2. The baby identify different body parts
3. The baby was interactive
Weakness:
Outcome 1

Developmental
area
What you observe Link to a Learning
Outcome from the EYLF
1. The child lacked memory to
remember the songs
2. The child struggled with some words
3. The child lacked attention
Cognitive
development Strength:
1. Child developed understanding of
colours
2. The child was inquisitive
3. The child was following patterns
Weakness:
1. The child failed to follow the
sequence of alphabet
2. The child lacked judgment regarding
problem solving
3. The child lacked knowledge regarding
alphabets
Outcome 3
Learning experience plan
Your experience plan must be completed before you implement the experience.
You are encouraged to type up or hand write your plan into this template, and when ready ensure you
ask your room leader/supervisor to review and sign in the relevant section.
Title: Child development
Overview: Children between age of one to three years were engaged in different
activities to develop physical, social, cognitive and communication
development.

Developmental
domains:
Through the experience of arranging games, songs and teaching colours
and texture, the purpose was to enhance different developmental domains
like physical, social, cognitive and communication development.
Purpose and
rationale:
The rationale for this was to engage children in activities that develop their
gross and fine motor skills and engage children in activities and enhance
interest in social interaction and communicating with others. There is also
a need to develop problem solving and thinking skills of children. So
activities like identifying colours and alphabet was organized.
Materials and
resources:
Pastas, strings, needles, painst, colours, cardboards, scissors.
Time and location: Child care setting
Educator’s role and
strategies:
The strategy is to gradually develop children’s ability to use hands and
engage in fine movement. The strategy is to arranged such activities that
exposes children to activities that develop their fine motor skills, social
skills and thinking ability.

Links to the EYLF: OUTCOME 1, 2, 3 and 4
Supervisor approval
(supervisor to sign
and date):