Focus Child Summary

Child: Olivia Age: Born on the 2nd of June 2014 (5 Family information
years and four months old) Chinese
Significant Family Information

Olivia is a Chinese born Australian girl with both parents from China. She often speaks English at home and in school and
attends the setting from Tuesday to Thursday. Her parent’s expectation for her is to improve on her spoken language as
well as meetings the standards for graduating students before going to primary school next year.

Significant Information from Analysis of Observations

Olivia was observed to be playing with the group of friends include child Lola, child M, child A and child K (girls are all
around 5 years old). This is when they are doing drawing and craftwork, group time activity, self initiated pretend play
and dramatic play. She shares the similar interest with her friend Lola and calls her the best friend. In her observations,
she is attracted to animal (bird) and plants (flowers) when doing outdoor activity and initiate pretend play in a secret
outdoor area with her group of girls. Olivia is also interested in storytelling and shows her outgoing personality with
everyone.
Learning (development) (e.g.
investigation, problem solving)
Literacy ( & language/communication)
 Able to comprehend meaning of
sentences but struggling to
pronounce some words
(observation 4).
 Recognizing salient with listening
skills (observation 5).
Mathematics
 Recognizes and label shapes
(observation 4).
Science and technology
 The use of ICT and how to follow
instructions in using IT in her
play (observation 5).
Creative Arts
Dispositions (e.g. curiosity,
perseverance):
 Confident in spoken language
 Cooperative with others in
pretend play
 Enthusiastic about new
discoveries with friends
 Curious about surrounding
environments (new plants in the Friends:
outdoor area.)
Relationships
Family:
Olivia has learnt to be very
independent and has a strong
personality (this is observed when she
fall and cut her hands and didn’t not
cry throughout the whole incident)
Olivia learnt that using spoken
language in interacting with her
friends is very important in building
their relationship.
  Imaginative and creative
(Observation 4).

Physical development, health and

wellbeing
Human society and the environment
Emerging understandings
Literacy (&
language/communication)
1. Has improve her pronunciation
due to participatory in most of the
activities in class and interact with
peers and educators. (week5 )
Comprehend science lessons taught
in class and retell and extend using
complete sentences. (week 5)
Suggestions for experiences to Suggestions for strategies
extend
 Through large group experiences (include all 40
children of the room) to allow her to have more
opportunities in communicating with others to
practice her spoken language.
Explicit teaching during her speech.

Mathematics
2. Able to do addition of number
from 0- 10 after explicit teaching
by using tally making to work out
her explanation.
Science and technology
Understand that there are four Allow her to develop curiosity
seasons in a year. and self-motivation and to
Comprehend state of matters have generate ideas about science
observable properties such as liquid, (this includes states of matter:
light, solid and air. solids, liquids, air/ light, forces,
pressure).
Creative Arts
3. Enjoys craft making and painting
and able to tell the mixing of
colours creates new colours
Physical development, health and
wellbeing
4.
Human society and the environment To extend Olivia’s interest about
Understand that natural world is the natural environment as well
important for animals (planned as pretend play by using puppet
experiences 3). making of animals and make a
Engage in peer interaction with ease. story with the made objects.