Please write an end of semester report for a reggio kindergarten student aged 5 in a Shenzhen bilingual school. The class have been studying a project all about flowers and have previously studied the country of Italy for international month and a project entitled 'From me to you' about making and sending letters, cards and postcards to friends and family with heartfelt meaning and expression.

The student has the following characteristics:
Shown significant growth in emotional regulation, independence and perserverance.
Very confident and independent and has a significant sense of justice and boundary. Can clearly express when she does or doesn't like something, and while she is willing to try something by herself first she is able to communicate and seek help from teachers when necessary.
Determined to do things her own way overall not a problem but sometimes can be very emotional and resistant to moving on to new stages, instructions and transitions.
Can be very sensitive and emotional though has significantly improved emotional regulation.
Very sociable and communicates clearly with classmates, engages in group games and activities well and works well with friends in pairs. During field trips is responsible to stay with her partner and safety conscious of herself and her partner when moving as a class from one location to another.
Can sometimes get carried away socialising and talking with friends when it is time to listen to the teacher.
Is very empathetic, able to pause and meaningfully apologise if she accidentally affects another friend. 
Connects her emotional understanding and empathy to her activities in school. Was very consistent with designing, cutting and writing letters and cards to friends in the classroom complete with heartfelt messages for those loved ones during our From Me To You project . She displayed this again when it came to bouquet making in the early stages of the Flower project, where she wanted to write an accompanying label specifically dedicating the bouquet to her mum.
When finding a dead bee outside during outdoor play she carefully buried it and created a gravesite around complete with flowers for the bees friends to visit. This lead to a class discussion about the various social and cultural meanings and uses of flowers, such as expressing "I love you" "Congratulations" "Thank you" or "I'm sorry"

Cathy is very explorative, enjoys artistic ventures of all varieties. She enjoys drawing, painting, clay moulding and textiles crafts. She also enjoys construction style work such as hot glue sticking and building cardboard houses and boats for our International month study and very consistently visits the little garden area to help build new gardens.
She also enjoyed some more scientific based processes in the class such as making candles, soap and real perfume and understands these are step-by-step processes in which she enthusiastically offers to help prepare ingredients when necessary.
She is very imaginative and thinks up scenarios or landscapes with great detail and flare.
She often incorporates elements of her real life experiences into her work, for example:
After a field trip to the flower market for during flower project she built a flower shop from miniature bricks in the little garden making area
Another occasion, when building  a little garden  in collaboration with other classmates she build a large skyrise apartment building and fountain she said she had seen in Shenzhen, mimicking her real life expectations of garden and park areas.

Regarding her English skills, her listening comprehension has dramatically improved. She understands all daily instructions as well as concept checking questions during English circle time discussions and her English vocabulary base has significantly grown over the semester.
Her speaking skills are not as strong however in recent weeks she has begun to try to insert more English vocabulary she does know wherever possible to try to be understood. When she doesn't know the word or phrase she will physically mime or demonstrate, after being informed of the English she will  proactively sound it back and use it when trying to re-explain. As such her pronunciation has also seen dramatic improvement.
Cathy has decent phonics skills in that she can recall most of the letter sounds and can hear and identify the onset sounds in the beginning of target vocabulary. She can also decode individual letter sounds in CVC  words with the support of a teacher but continues to work on her blending skills. Cathy is motivated to write, and enjoys writing her own messages and vocabulary cards in her own-made English dictionary however continues to work on her letter formation and pencil grip