Our First Report Card! How Froot Loop's First "6 Weeks" Went in Pre-K, Speech, & Occupational Therapy

Here in Texas, we don’t have school “quarters” like I did growing up in the midwest. We divide the school year into 6 sets of 6 weeks. Well, right before Christmas was the end of the third set of six weeks. Since our little guy joined school late- in early December- he only had about 10 days before his first report card.

Since he’s in the Special Education program, part of his IEP is speech therapy and occupational therapy. These also are included on his report card. 

So, even though they didn’t have much to work with, they did give us a report card! All of the general Pre-K skills were marked “introduced,” so he will continue to work on that. 

As far as his occupation therapy, he only had one visit since his ARD in early December. She’s really working on his motor skills since he’s a good 18-24 months behind. He did a good job of drawing a person with help and did a good job of accepting help from the OT. He also worked on cutting correctly with guidance. They worked on holding the paper correctly, getting the scissors on right, and staying on the line. Otherwise, they haven’t started working on his other objectives such as writing his name, drawing a person/scene, etc. 

His speech therapist had one visit with him as well. She noted that as far as social language, Froot Loop will join in playing with others but still needs adult assistance to play cooperatively. His ARD goal is for him to join in 70% of the time. Also, Froot Loop won’t ask others to play with him, and his ARD goal is to ASK others to play with him 70% of the time. Finally, he still needs help to play cooperatively, share, and take turns with his classmates. He had only done it 3 times out of 10. 

Also, the speech therapist is working on articulation with Froot Loop. He’s working on pronouncing words without consonant cluster reduction. This is a major issue with him. 

Finally, the teachers and therapists are working with him on adaptive behavior. His ARD goal is to make progress toward the acquisition of developmentally appropriate social skills. He’s working on imitating pretend play activities and he DOES like to play in the kitchen center and build with blocks. 

Next, they expect Froot Loop to adhere to classroom rules and routines 60% of the time. Since he’s so new to the classroom, they’re still introducing him to these rules and routines. 

They want him to participate and imitate hand movements to finger plays and simple songs 60% of the time. He’s not doing this yet. They’ll continue working with him. 

Next, his ARD states that Froot Loop is to comply with teacher request 60% of the time. As of report cards, he’s learning to do this, but is not happy about it. 

Finally, he is working on sharing and taking turns with his peers. They want him doing this 60% of the time. He’s still new, still meeting his peers, so they’re working on it. They told us that he’s working on these skills but doesn’t like it when others are playing with certain things that he is playing with or wants to play with. 

Overall, his first week and a half of school went very well. I am greatly looking forward to his next report card to see all the progress he’s making! When I pick him up, his teachers say that he’s improving and making good progress and that they love having him. Plus, he always loves to talk about his day and says that he loves his teachers and his preschool. HOORAY! 

Did you like school as a kid?