Student Observation Log

Student 1: Elvin – ELL learner

Student 2: Mikayla – IEP Student

Student: Week-Day-Date Content: Strengths Additional

& Weaknesses Thoughts
Elvin Week 1- 1/29/24 Math- Place Value
with 3-digit numbers

Strengths:
-can identify the ones
and tens place
-can correctly draw
base ten diagrams to
represent 3-digit
numbers
-is focused when
completing exit
tickets on iPad

Weaknesses:
-thinks the hundredth
place is the thousands
place and calls it the
thousands place
-struggles to work
independently on the
material
-loses focus easily and
looks around the
room instead of the
teacher
Mikayla * Week 1- 1/29/24 I think Mikayla
ELA-Phonics/Phon would benefit
emic Awareness from sight word
flash cards.
Strengths:
-can read some heart
 words like “him” and
“put.”
-identified that “put”,
“him”, and “make”
have 3 sounds.
- Was able to use
“make” in a sentence
when the teacher
asked her to

Weaknesses:
-When called on to
read “him, put, make”
a student read “him,
put, and mac”.

Elvin Week 2- 2/5/24 Math- Congruent I think Elvin could

& 2D Shapes use more visuals
to help him
Strengths: understand the
-understands material like a
congruent means the YouTube video.
same shape (verbally
told me, when I asked
what it meant)
-understands what
sides mean when
referring to shapes
-with my assistance,
was able to answer
that a rectangle has 4
sides and 4 vertices

Weaknesses:
-doesn’t understand
what edges are when
referring to shapes
-doesn’t understand
what vertices are
when referring to
shapes
Mikayla* Week 2- 2/5/24 ELA-Story & Story
Elements
Organizer

Strengths:
-understands who the
characters are and
the characters in the
story
-understands what a
setting is and the
setting in the book
-when helping with
spelling, she will
repeat after me as I
say each letter

Weakness:
-mixed up meaning of
problem and solution
-writes b’s as d’s
Elvin Week 3- 2/12/24 Math: Labeling 2D I think Elvin could
Shapes benefit from
sitting next to the
Strengths: teacher to stay on
-correctly labeled task more.
square
-correctly labeled He also needs
circle
more
-correctly labeled
rectangle hands-on/engagin
g learning. He
Weaknesses: doesn’t do very
-Talking and well with
distracting others lecturing-type
when on the carpet instruction
(stayed off task)
-when the teacher
called on him, he did
not know the
 question/answer due
to him not paying
attention
Mikayla* Week 3- 2/12/24 ELA- Nonfiction I’m assuming this
Read-aloud - Text was not Mikayla’s
Features first time
identifying text
Strengths: features, as well
-can find the glossary as the classes. She
-can find a heading in did a good job and
the book was able to find ¾
-can find the table of
all by herself. I
contents
think this mini
scavenger hunt
Weaknesses:
served as a little
-needs constant
redirection by the review for the
teacher class as they read
-needs to sit next to another
the teacher on carpet nonfiction text the
to stay focused other day.
-wasn’t able to find
captions in the book
Elvin Week 4- 2/21/24 Math: 3D Shapes Elvin seemed to
have a great day
Strengths: today. He did a
-recalled 2/4 previous great job
learned from the managing his
other day: cone and behavior and
sphere – forgot
focused during
rectangular prism and
pyramid the whole lesson.
Able to now tell the As mentioned in a
difference between previous
vertices and edges observation, I
-understands a think he benefits
sphere has 0 faces, so much more
edges, and vertices
when he has a
-stayed focused when
using 3D shape physical visual and
manipulates or manipulative!
 -counted faces, He was more
vertices, and edges on interested in the
3D shape
lesson because of
manipulatives
it.

Weaknesses:
n/a

Student: Week-Day-Date Content: Additional

Strengths & Thoughts
Weaknesses
Mikayla* Week 4- 2/21/24 ELA:
Phonics/Writing

Strengths:
-can easily identify
beginning sounds
-understands that
some of the words
have a pattern, “sing
and bring”

Weakness:
-has trouble
identifying middle
sounds
-does not start to
spell and wait for the
teacher to start
writing the word on
the smartboard, then
will copy
Elvin Week 5- 2/28/24 ELA- Syllable
boards
 Strengths:
-can break words
into syllables

Weaknesses:
-confuses short
and long /u/ with
each other

Mikayla* Week 5- 2/28/24 Math: Sorting 100

snacks, counting
by tens

Strengths:
-can count by tens
-Understands
subtracting ten
-Understands
adding ten

Weaknesses:
-Behavior was a
little hard to
manage, had to
keep redirecting

Elvin Week 6- 3/11/24 ELA- Syllable

boards

Strengths:
-can break words into
syllables

Weaknesses:
-confuses short and
 long /u/ with each
other

Mikayla* Week 6- 3/11/24 Math: test over

2D and 3D shapes

Strengths:
-can identify 2 d
shapes and names
-can count shapes'
sides accurately

Weakness:
-can identify 3D
shapes, but not all of
their names
-struggles in counting
shapes edges and
vertices

Elvin Week 7- 3/20/24 ELA: Reading

informational text
and answering
questions about key
details

Strengths:
-can verbally
summarize the text
-can identify a few
key details from the
text

Weakness:
-needs constant
redirection during
follow-up activity
 -works ahead and
gets in trouble for
not following
directions
Mikayla* Week 7- 3/20/24 ELA: Reading
informational text
and answering
questions about key
details

Strengths: n/a

Weaknesses:
-cannot summarize
the text
-cannot recall any key
details from the text

Student: Week-Day-Date Content: Additional

Strengths & Thoughts
Weaknesses
Elvin Week 8- 3/25/24 ELA: A-Z reading –
Text Features

Strengths:
Can identify and
point to heading
when prompted by
teacher
-Can identify and
point to table of
contents when
prompted by the
teacher
-Can identify
captions and point to
them when
prompted by the
 teacher

Weaknesses:
-Elvin was talking too
much to the people
around him and the
teacher had him
stand

Mikayla* Week 8- 3/25/24 Math: Part – Part

– Whole

Strengths:
-sits quietly and
pays attention
during anchor
chart
-Can identify a
missing part
-Draws pictures to
help find the total

Weaknesses:
-Cannot identify
the missing whole