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General Information:
Name: Luke
Grade: 4
Resides with: Joe (Father, Male) and Johna (Mother, Female), both 37
Siblings: Ian (brother, male, 12) and Owen (twin brother, male, 9)
Physical description: Average height, small frame, blonde hair, blue eyes, wears
glasses
their house.
Crawling: 8 months
Sitting: 6 months
Walking: 12 months
Language development: Started talking around one, quickly developed a vocabulary
From the information I received from Luke's mother it seems as though he developed at
all the right times. He started crawling at 8 months and normal can be anywhere from 8
to 12 months. At the age of 6 months Luke was able to sit up without the help of anyone
and a normal age for this is anywhere for 4 to 7 months. Luke also starting walking
around the age of 1 and normal is around 1 or a little after. Around this time he also
starts talking when he began to walk. After beginning to talk his vocabulary developed
very rapidly. Which is very impressive considering they only start to say a few words by
18 months. According to his mother his temperament was happy and he was very
inquisitive, always asking "why". Luke's general health was also in good condition, never
3. Pre-school History: Interviewed Mrs. Terry at 1:40 until 2:00 in her classroom at
Emotional: Wasn't upset about being away from home, his mother/father, or his twin
brother
Luke's reading skills according to his preschool teacher were on target and above
average for a preschool student. She also said that his cognitive development was also
above average on everything they did inside the classroom. This is awesome to know
Luke socially was a little shy but not too extreme this might have to do with the fact that
they separated he and his twin brother for the first time. He was probably comfortable
with being around his brother all the time and not having him around might have put him
back in his shell a little but of course he got better as the year went along.
Emotionally, she said Luke was very stable. He never cried because he missed his
4. School History: Interviewed his mother on March 10 around 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, at
their house.
Relationships with teachers and other adults in school setting: Very good - he makes
Luke is a very advanced student for his fourth grade class. He seems to be excelling in
everything he is doing within his schoolwork and also outside of there. He is the top
student in his class. Just by sitting in with his class for about fifteen minutes you could
easily tell that yourself. During class when the teacher is orally asking them questions
about the lesson he is always actively participating and has his hand up ready to
answer. He is very strong in reading in math. Luke's teacher told me that he wins an
award every month for the most Accelerated Reader points, so she had to start
choosing two winners instead of just one because it's always him and nobody else was
winning anything. During their free time or reading intervention block you can easily find
him because he will be the first one with his Accelerated Reader book out and ready to
roll.
Luke's strong suit is not only reading but also math. He and his twin brother are far
beyond the other students on their times table and he's always the first one done with
his busy work or tests. I also noticed that for review before math class begins the
teacher will write about five long division problems on the board and let students
volunteer to do them and the last one is always the hardest and Luke is the only one to
volunteer for it. The other kids were struggling to even do it on their paper, but Luke was
ready to show off for everyone. Every time I was there he would successfully complete it
at about the same rate the other students are completing theirs.
Luke is an all around great student, not only does he perform well academically but also
socially and physically. According to Luke's mother he has no problems making friends,
he is very social and always at the appropriate time. When the teacher has to turn a
movie on in the classroom for recess most of his buddies flock to him and place their
chairs near his. Luke has also gained a lot of his friends through his basketball league
I've learned through his mother and his current teacher that his relationship to adults is
also very strong because he is always a "people pleaser". He wants to make everyone
5. Observations of Child:
Mainly from what I can tell and from what you read in the previous section Luke is an all
around great student. From watching Luke inside of the classroom I have every reason
in the book to back up the fact that he is the ideal fourth grader. I also observed Luke
momentarily in a home setting when interviewing his mother he was off playing Legos
Through my observations I found nothing out of the ordinary. He has respect for his
teachers and his parents. He doesn't get into any trouble in class.
6. Summary:
Applying Luke to all of the development theories was hard for me because he really
to Erik Erikson's theory that personality develops in a series of stages does apply to
Luke. Luke developed a personality within his family and with his twin brother, but once
they went to preschool they were separated so I'm sure this changed his personality, say
for instance Luke was the more quiet one and his twin brother did all their talking, but
once they're without each other they almost had to develop another personality. Even
though Luke had his mother as a nurturing caregiver he never developed an intense
attachment problem to her either. Within Erikson's psychological stage he suggests that
children as students once they're about eight start to gain a sense of confidence in their
school work through encouragement from their parents and teachers. Luke definitely
had a great support system to get him academically where he is today. His teachers
know that he goes above and beyond what is asked for him, yet they are still able to set
up challenges for him inside the classroom. I think another reason why he excels the
way he does is from the friendly competition he has going with his twin brother, who is
I believe that Bandura's social learning theory also applies to Luke's development
because this is where children learn from observing others. I feel as if growing up with a
twin brother you would learn a lot from their mistakes and grow with each other as a
whole. Bandura's social cognitive theory also applied to Luke because he learns things
with sensorimotor, preoperational, and then onto concrete operational stage, and formal
operations stage, Luke was on target in each and every one of those.
Luke has always developed physically and cognitively in a way that theorists would say
is normal.
This whole experience has taught me a lot about what is normal for a developing child
and what an ideal fourth grader is truly like. It would be nothing for me to say that I will
be leaving this class with a great sum of knowledge on the physical, cognitive, and
emotional development of a child. I can only hope that one day I'll have a class full of
Lukes.