A nursery that provides parents their child's weekly progress (8mths 1 wk)

I've no choice but to send my precious gal to a nursery as young as 3 months old. After 2 months being with her 24/7! Argh ..it was truly a torture for me especially the first few weeks of transformation. Often times, I tried to wake up early in the morning just to spend more time playing with her before sending her to the centre because baby J sleeps at 8:30pm every night! Though the separation is only from 8:30am-6:00pm, Monday - Friday, I often felt that time passes so slowly at work! It took me weeks to get used to my new schedule and guess I was facing separation anxiety back than :D



Anyway, 8 months and 1 week has passed. Baby J is indeed very happy at the centre because my little social butterfly loves learning & playing with her little friends at the centre. A happy baby makes ME a happy MOMMY :)With all the fun & learning she had at the centre, no wonder she's so tired whenver she returns from nursery.

The nursery also provide parents a 'Progress card' via emails. The mail arrives in my inbox every Saturday morning. A good way to start my weekend :)  I just got to know from a friend that in New Zealand, all caretakers are required to go through courses to qualify to be an infant care giver. Not only that, they're also required to provide a "progress report" to parents once a week. WOW...a requirement? Guess the infant centre baby J is going to now practises the same method.

Here's the teacher's weekly progress report for Baby J. From now on, I'll be keeping her progress report her for keepsake :)

              A photo taken by her teacher when Baby J was at 5 mths+. Photo is abit blur but I love the smiles of the 2 girls having a fun during play time :)

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Observation (Behaviour/Sleeping/Milk Intake/Others)

Receptive/Expressive Language Skills

Janice’s learning to smile and vocalizes to mirror image.  She is also learning to babble speech sounds and understands basic words (“bye-bye”). Extremely alert little girl, she turns her head fast towards sound. Noticed Janice enjoys two-way verbal exchanges and can imitate facial expressions like sticking out her tongue and trying to roll it too. She is beginning to combine syllables like “da-da” or “ma-ma”.  Suggest you also teach her some words like da-da (daddy), ma-ma (mummy), por-por (grandma) or kung kung (granddad).

Thinking/Cognitive Skills

Ha, Janice can hold arms out to be picked up when in her cot or stroller.  When she is in the toddler’s room, she loves to explore big and small items (especially those that rolls and makes sound).

Self-Help Skills

Janice is now sitting in a high chair for her lunch, a bit difficult but still trying. She is distracted easily with the environment, turning her head left and right, trying to get up too. To distract her from moving, have to give her a small bowl and spoon with some porridge in it.  She seems to enjoy it but very messy though.

Gross and Fine Motor Skills

Janice can transfer objects from hand to hand and rocks back and forth on hands and knees.  Now she is learning to stand up. Bears almost all weight while standing supported. Even learning to sit down after standing but can see the fear in her eyes. Well, she seems to get it right but will ask for help if she is stuck.

Socio-Emotional Skills

Janice is always a bubbly and cheerful girl.  Smile to everyone she sees including parents. Smart girl, she can sense moods of others, like when I am angry with her.  She will either put her head down or on the cheeky side will try to smile and show funny face to make me laugh.