My 4 year old can count to 20 and recognise the numbers backwards and forwards. She knows the alphabet and recognises the letters out of sequence. She knows her phonics and can read early readers books. She will explain what she thinks is happening. She can write the number 1 and 10. She has recently started drawing people, think a stick with a circle on it for a face. She can spell her name, her brothers and three letter words. We are working on phase 4 and 5 phonics.
She can pick out rhyming words from a list and do join the dot patterns. She also knows her colours, 2d shapes and can name many animals.
She can use a scooter, do forward roly polys and jump. She can run but can't skip. She has recently started to hop.
She can put on her own underwear and leggings. She can't put her top, socks or shoes on. She can take her coat off but not put it on.
She now talks a lot but it doesn't always make a lot of sense. She can understand instructions but rarely follows them and is away with the fairies a lot of the time. I think she is physically behind her peers. Pre covid I was taking her to softplay so she could make her muscles stringer and practice climbing and pulling herself up which she has always struggled with. She cannot ride a bike yet, can't seem to mange the pedals.
I thought she would need speech therapy and she had been referred before covid but we spent a lot of time talking one on one and building her confidence which seems to have helped. Her preschool no longer think she needs it.
I would speak to school about speech therapy, maybe a health visitor too. Can you check if you can self refer? Many kids come along at their own pace but if you are concerned, definitely seek help.