On Monday, September 21st, I went to St. Stephen’s Day School from 9:30-10:30am to observe a four year old boy in Ms. Alicia’s class named Braedyn. This class was also known as the Green Turtles. When I arrived at the school, it was outside time. The children were allowed to do whatever they wanted on the playground, which included a kitchen area, slides, climbing bars, a sandbox and more. When outside time was over, they were brought inside to do different activities. During activity time, the children were put into stations such as doing a writing activity, cutting shapes, or mixing colors. Braedyn was a small tan boy that had dark curly hair. He was wearing a white-striped shirt with jeans and Nike blue shoes. Even though his body was already small, you can still tell that his head was bigger than the rest of his body such as his feet. This is due to the cephalocaudal development, which is the development from …show more content…
He climbed the bars like an obstacle course. His teachers had to get on to him several times because he was doing something that could hurt him or others. One time, he was caught pulling a classmate off of the bars because he wanted to show them what he could do. When he was caught, his teacher just told him that his action was unacceptable. However, the teacher did not tell him to go to time out. Instead, Braedyn went ahead and sat himself down on the alligator seesaw and reflected on his poor decision he made. After a minute of sitting alone, he went back to playing with Bryson. This showed that this active and outgoing boy also had a sensitive side. You could tell he loved the playground and showing off his tricks, but also wanted to please his teachers. Overall, I enjoyed watching Braedyn jump around the playground and watching him practice his letters during activity time. Braedyn was an energetic, self-disciplined student who wanted his peers to observe and share his
I asked her to come with a list of thing the boys cannot play with. Once she made, the next step was to put it out of their reach. This is not to punish the boys , but they need bounties. Ms. Cortes gets stress very quickly. She has to try to stay in front of the tantrums.
1. 10 points: Based on your results from Tables 1 & 2, briefly describe the activity patterns you observed? Were there any contributing factors? Were boys more active than girls? (You do not need to go over the entire sample, just provide highlights and go into detail on one or two areas that were most interesting).
To answer this question we must first understand the importance of play. If we understand, on the most basic level, that play is essential for a child to have a good health and wellbeing. Then it could be concluded that outdoor play needs to be considered as an important component of education and care. Outdoor play has recently been included in the early year’s framework across the UK. The Statutory Framework for early year’s foundation stage in England now includes an expectation that young children will be offered good quality outdoor environments in order to support their 6 areas of development such as; physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual language, and social.
Sofia reported that she has a good relationship with both parents. She indicated if something is bothering her, she will speak with the parent with whom she is with. Sofia reported that her mother’s home is smaller than her father’s. She indicated that both homes have the same rules.
It was a ferociously gloomy day in the heart of Center City. The time of the observation was from 11:43 am to 12:43pm. Sandwiched between 15th street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard is the Philadelphia 's Municipal Services Building and within the plaza of the building lies Board Game Park. Even in the rain, the park was festive. Upon arriving, it began to drizzle.
According to developmental psychology a person at any age is at a certain stage of cognitive, moral, psychosocial, and physical development. This development is measured by different types of thinking, mental capacity for tasks, physical strength, and reasoning for following rules. Development is easily seen in children. Naturalistic observation is the one of the easiest method to see these developments in children. This is the observation technique I used, while watching a five year old male at Kindercare Daycare at 3:30 on a Friday.
For the parent-child interaction observation, I decided to use my community park as the public setting. My observation consisted of watching the interaction of a mother and her two sons, who seemed to be twins around the age of six or seven years old. I observed the interaction from afar without them being aware that I was observing, which allowed me to note a true naturalistic observation without manipulation of the situation. The setting of the interaction was a community park, where a mother and her two sons of Indian ethnicity, were approaching a basketball court area. The mother began to strap a helmet on one son because he was about to ride his bike, while the other son was walking alongside them holding a basketball.
On the first day of the exercise the blue-eyed children were given pride of place in the classroom. They were given extra recess time, a second helping of food at lunch, and they were allowed to
An unannounced 10/20/2015 I was greeted by Marilyn Harrison the director at the door. I introduced myself and handed her a business card and discussed my purpose of the visit and what documentation I would needed. A walkthrough of the building and playground was conducted. There are three building in the operation. The main building had three classroom, all three classrooms are used at different parts of the day.
“Charles had to stand in the corner during story time because he kept pounding his feet on the floor” (Jackson 74). As every teacher would say reading and
Introduction – Background information This paper is about child observation. I observed a child, Daniel (coded name). He is four years and two months old. Daniel is 103 cm and 18 kg.
On 13th of March, I went to kindergarten to complete my child observation task. Ms. Janelle is the person in charge of the kindergarten and she introduces Nic to me. Nic is a 5 years old kid and this year is his 2nd year in the kindergarten. As I went there after their classes, I were told to help Nic with his homework and on the same time complete my task. Nic is a very active child and able to speak fluently in English and Mandarin.
The classroom that I will be observing is a Preschool classroom at KinderCare Learning Center in Bartlett, Illinois. The teacher I will be observing over the next period of time is Laura Sturgulewski. She has worked at KinderCare for 8 years, mostly in the 2 year-old room until fall of 2013, when she took the lead teaching position of the Preschool classroom. Her classroom mainly has 3 year-olds, but on occasion has a mix of 4 year-olds and transitioning 2 year-olds. The number of students in her class depends on the day, because they are a child care center some students have a part time schedule, unlike an elementary school where children attend every day.
OVERVIEW The elementary school that I observed at, Orchard View Elementary, was located in Delray Beach, FL. The location was very accessible and right off of the highway. The teacher I got assigned to was Ms. Diann Johnson. She teaches a class for students in 3rd-5th grade.
Classroom Observations Mrs. Canada is the first grade teacher that I observed, and the subject that she was teaching was reading. She had planned well-organized power points and crafting materials in advance, so she was prepared for the lesson. The two times I observed, the lesson that was being taught at both times was reading. Children in the classroom used a lot of previous knowledge for the lesson.