Core Skills Analysis
Reading / Language Arts
Mylove'Vay practiced early reading skills by using read.com, flash cards, and small books to sound out words and blend sounds. She worked on rhyming, opposites, vowels versus consonants, syllables, and special reading rules, which helped her connect sounds to print and build stronger decoding skills. Reading aloud with friends and listening to read-alouds also supported her fluency, comprehension, and ability to stay still, listen, and answer questions about what she heard. She also learned to recognize and write her full name, first name, and last name, which strengthened her personal literacy and name awareness.
Writing
Mylove'Vay practiced writing with a whiteboard, tracing books, worksheets, and activity books that combined reading, writing, and drawing. She refined her writing mechanics by tracing letters and completing paper-based work, which helped her improve hand control, letter formation, and pencil readiness. Writing and recognizing her full name showed that she was beginning to connect spoken identity with written language in a meaningful way. These activities also gave her repeated practice, which helped her build confidence and consistency in early handwriting.
Math
Mylove'Vay used counters, flash cards, worksheets, pictures, and word sentences to practice number sense and early operations. She learned to count to 120, count by tens, compare sets of objects, and work with numbers up to 10 and within 10 through addition and subtraction. She also explored making 5 and 10, which helped her understand number relationships and different ways to represent the same total. Real-life measuring during cooking and food preparation added practical math meaning, and it showed her how numbers are used in everyday tasks.
Science
Mylove'Vay explored science through IXL, nature walks, hikes, the aquarium, and hands-on observations of plants, animals, weather, and the world around her. She learned about living and nonliving things, animal and plant needs, body parts, habitats, and how living things change their environment to survive. She also studied light and sound, force and motion, magnets, and states of matter, which helped her begin classifying, comparing, and asking scientific questions. Her repeated observing and questioning showed growing scientific inquiry and curiosity.
Social Studies / Civics / Community
Mylove'Vay learned about community, helpers, rules, safety, and good citizenship through visits, volunteer work, and discussions about the world around her. She explored jobs community helpers do, tools they use, American symbols and monuments, and the purpose of rules and laws in different settings. She also visited places like the library, fire house, museum, aquarium, and skating rink, which helped her understand how communities are organized and how people behave in public spaces. Her volunteer work feeding people and caring for elders showed empathy, responsibility, and a growing awareness of how to serve others.
Social-Emotional Learning / Physical Education / Life Skills
Mylove'Vay practiced important life and social skills through group games, skating, T-ball, soccer, worship dance, bike rides, and team-building activities. She learned to share, take turns, follow directions, recognize emotions, and work with others during play and gatherings with other children. Hands-on tasks like cooking, cleaning, organizing, feeding chickens, gathering eggs, and brushing teeth helped her build independence, responsibility, and personal care habits. These experiences showed that she was learning self-control, cooperation, and confidence while also staying active and engaged.
Art / Music
Mylove'Vay explored creativity through online and in-person art classes, where she painted, drew, and used shapes to make original pieces. She also used play dough to learn about texture, colors, shapes, and building, which strengthened her fine-motor skills and visual creativity. In music-related activities, she listened for note changes, repeated songs for memorization, and learned to play songs from the beginning of the year, which supported her auditory memory and pattern recognition. These activities showed that she enjoyed expressing ideas in different creative ways and was building patience through practice.
Tips
To deepen Mylove'Vay’s learning, continue pairing hands-on practice with short academic lessons so she can see how skills connect in real life. Try a family reading routine where she reads a few words aloud, then draws a picture or acts out the story, and follow it with a simple writing prompt using her name or a sight word. For math, use snacks, toys, or cooking ingredients to practice counting, comparing, adding, subtracting, and measuring in playful ways. For science and social studies, keep exploring nature walks, community outings, and helper visits, then ask her to describe what she noticed, what tools people used, and how living things or communities depend on one another.
Book Recommendations
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault: A fun alphabet book that supports letter recognition, sound awareness, and early reading confidence.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle: A classic book that connects counting, sequencing, food, and simple science concepts.
- From Head to Toe by Eric Carle: An engaging book that supports body awareness, movement, and animal recognition.
Learning Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1 / RF.1.1 — practiced recognizing letters, sounds, and print concepts through read-alouds, flash cards, and decoding.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2 — learned to blend sounds, segment words, and hear rhymes.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1 / W.K.2 — developed early writing through tracing, worksheets, and name writing.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1, K.CC.B.4, K.CC.C.7 — counted to 120, compared quantities, and worked with number relationships.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1 / K.OA.A.2 — practiced addition and subtraction using objects, pictures, and word sentences.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1 — explored measurement concepts through cooking, food prep, and comparing objects.
- NGSS K-ESS2, K-LS1, K-PS2 — observed weather, living things, forces, motion, and the needs of plants and animals.
- CCSS.SL.K.1 — participated in group discussions, read-aloud responses, and social learning with peers.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1 — identified shapes and location words such as left/right, above/below, next to/between.
Try This Next
- Make a simple word-blending worksheet using short CVC words and have Mylove'Vay circle vowels and match rhyming words.
- Create a counting and comparison game with objects from home: count, compare more/less, and sort by size or weight.
- Draw a community helpers picture and label each helper’s job and tool.
- Write a short sentence about a nature walk, then illustrate one plant, animal, or weather observation.