Describe the child’s current interests, abilities and school readiness.(p219-243)
Maya is an exceptionally bright young girl who loves playing with her brothers and sister; and especially when she gets to pick the activity. She enjoys arts and crafts and will use every color available to make a rainbow like creation. She is a very energetic girl, her parents have all the children enrolled in various sports activates, such as, soccer, swimming and gymnastics. Maya excels at them all with a high level of hand eye coordination and ability to understand and follow the rules of each sport. She speaks clearly, in complete sentence while being able to formulate her thoughts well. Maya is the voice of the group, she attempts to speak for her siblings, even when it is not always appreciated. Its important to Teri to educate her children and encourage their success, her and Brian work with the children regularly to ensure their development is on course. (Rowe, 2014) Maya has attended preschool, for nine hours a week since she was two years old. (Feldman, p.235)As a result, she is quite comfortable going to school and is on track with her social and cognitive development. She is beginning to read simple words and sentence and even subtract and add simple math problems. (Feldman,