Ashley J.

Tetreault
EDEL 315
Spring 2014

A Getting to Know You GridKindergarten

Student Hobby
Alyssa

Walki
ng
her
dog

Strengths

Jennifer

Eli

Lauren

Weaknesse
s

Effort
Positive
attitude
Reading for
meaning
Helpful with
everybody

Sounding
out longer
words
Trouble
with vowel
sounds

Softb
allspeci
ficall
y
right
cente
r left
Hikin
g
and
sleep
ing
in
tents

Good writer
Confident
but quiet

Shy-doesnt
always ask
for help
when
needed

Imaginationprovides
motivation

Sleep
ing
over
gran
dmas
Watc

Distracted
easily by
other
students
Easily
influenced
by other
students
behavior
Chatty-this
gets her in
trouble and
causes her
to loose
focus at

Continuous
progress in
both
reading and
writing

Rachel

Bilal
*Special
Needs
Student
(developme
ntal delay)

Savannah

hing
Froze
n
with
Gran
dma
colori
ng
on
white
boar
ds
Likes
to
vacu
um
or
any
hous
ehold
chor
es
Watc
hing
TV

times

Continuous
progress in
both
reading and
writing

Articulation
of wordssometimes
uses baby
talk

Confidence
Loves being
part of a
group

Struggles
in all
academic
areas
Trouble
with letters
and letter
sounds
Trouble
with
numbers
Site word
recognition
Number
sense and
number
recognition

Cole

He
likes
his
frien
d
Luca
s

Came to
Kindergarte
n with
hardly any
skills but
has come a
long way.
Sounding
out and
decoding
words
Effort/perse
verance
Building and
constructing
things
Understands
math
concepts
very well
but needs
help with

Motivation
Site words
Letters and
sounds

Mackenzie

Shaheym

Demitri

Daniella

Color
ing/b
eing
an
artist
Paint
ing
danci
ng

Colle
cting
mone
y for
his
piggy
bank

colori
ng

Taylor

likes
to
look
for
easte
r
eggs
roller
skati
ng

Sensitivehard on
herself

Behavior
Fine motorvery messy
work
organizatio
n
communica
tion-talks
very little
attention
span

motivated
very happy
works hard
average
academicall
y

great
reading
strategies
getting
better at
reading for
meaning

very good
writer
very
creative
inquisitive
detail
oriented
reading and
writing
reading
comprehens
ion
leader

Viktoria

numbers
sometimes
Writing and
reading
Academicall
y sound
child
Resilient
Excellent in
math
Musicsinging and
dancing

sharing
only childwants to be
in charge
all the time
trouble
giving up
ownership/l
eadership
sharing
being a
group
member

sharing
being a
group
member
vowel
sounds are

Nathan

Hayden

wiispeci
ficall
y
playi
ng
the
Mari
o
game
likes
to
play
on
the
swin
gs

confusing
for her

site words
decoding
words

Way above
grade level
in reading
Comprehens
ion
Likes the
challenge

Very strong
in math

Samantha

Ethan

Goin
g to
Boun
ce-U
Colle
cting
game
s

Writing
Sight words

Inquisitive
Writing
Math
Social
studies
Science
He LOVES to
learn

Kind
Very helpful
talkative

Lucas

Goin
g to
the
toy
store

Socially
immature
tantrums

Not so good
reading
strategies
Sloppy
work
Rushing
through
work
Reading for
meaning
Timid/shy
Some vowel
confusion
Sometimes
a follower
to those
children
who
misbehave
Gravitates
towards
negative
behaviors
in class
Struggles
with
reading
strategies
Rushes

through
work so it
is often
messy
Because of
rushing,
struggles to
read for
meaning
*Hobbies taken from student journal entries on hobbies
*Strengths and Weaknesses taken from teacher interview