Celebrating the Growth of Your Child Through Observing Everyday Activities!

CATCH EMS’

Celebrating the growth of your child through observing everyday activities!

CHILDOUTCOMES

Positive social emotional skills (including positive social relationships)

Might look like:sharing toys with friends, asking another child to play, greeting classmates with smiles…..

Acquisition and use of knowledge and skills (including early language/communication and literacy)

Might look like: Recognizes and points to objects, participates with household tasks such as stacking canned goods, separating clothing, helping with putting things away by size or color

Use of appropriate behaviors to meet needs

Might look like: Being able to find own clothing by color, able to brush teeth, open drawers

There are many ordinary activities that demonstrate learning…we just take them for granted. This notebook will hopefully help you and your family just CATCH EM’ doing the ordinary things! Enjoy the experience of recognizing and making note of how your child is growing!

In order to capture all these wonderful moments we recommend that you try to enter the CATCH EMs at least once a week! Share these with your child’s teacher often like at IEP reviews, parent/teacher conferences and just to celebrate your child!

CATCH EMS’

DATE / P KN* / CATCH EM’s (What I noticed, where and when……………………………………………)
example
01/2/08 / P / Jan ran up and hugged her best friend all on her own!

CATCH EMS’