Date: 11-27-2008
Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M.
Children: Sisters and brother. Girl age 11, Boy age 8 and Girl 4.
4 year old starts this activities by passing out balloons according to the balloons size and the size of the child. The biggest balloon gets handed to the 11 year old, she then looks at the two left and says "I'm the smallest so this one is mine", and then gives the boy the middle size balloon. The children are going to play a game to see who can keep their balloon in the air the longest. Obstacles that the children have to look out for are, one year old mom is watching, coffee table and various toys laying on the floor. All the kids are hitting or kicking their balloon to keep it off the floor. The first balloon to hit the floor is the 8 year old boys. He goes and sits on the couch ans its the two girls playing. The next balloon to hit the floor is the 11 year old. The 4 year old yells "YES I WON" while dancing around the living room.
All the kids decided to go outside after the 4 year old makes the suggestion. They each get their coats, hat and mittens on by themselves. The two girls go to play soccer in the front yard and the boy goes off to do his own thing. The front yard has a hill so the 4 year old is at the top and the 11 year old is in the middle of the hill. The 4 year old kicks the soccer ball down to the 11 year old, she kicks it back up without stoping the ball and the 4 year old copies her and kicks it back. This time the 11 year old stops the ball and then returns the kick. The 4 year old copies her again and this time also stops the ball before returning the kick. The two girls continue to do this for about 15 minutes before the 4 year old grabs a little racket ball and says "Lets play soccer with this ball" after a few minutes and figuring it doesn't work as good the 4 year old picks up a bug net.
The 11 year old asks the 4 year old "What are we doing now"? The 4 year old says "You throw this ball(racket ball) and i will catch it in the net like Sponge Bob jelly fishing". The 11 year old throws the ball and the 4 year old twirls in a complete circle trying to catch the ball. She misses the ball goes and picks it up throwing it back to the 11 year old. She throws the ball a few more times and each time the four year old does the same thing tries to catch the ball by spinning in a complete circle. The 11 year old tells her "That's not how Sponge Bob catches jellyfish". The 11 year old yells to the boy to come throw the ball. The boy comes and throws the ball while the 11 year old hangs onto the net with the 4 year old and shows her how to catch the ball. After about four tries they finally catch the ball together. The 4 year old satisfied she finally was able to catch the ball says she is all done.
All activities are cooperative or organized supplementary play with the 4 year old being in charge. The 4 year old seemed to be in the transition period from preoperational to concrete operational.
Behavior in first activities that shows the 4 year old is using or learning a concept are: When she gives each balloon according to the size of the child and balloon this was showing seriation. When she knew she won.
Second activities, copies kicking the ball. Kicking the soccer ball vs. racket ball
Third activities: The 11 year old was scaffolding when she helped swing the net with the 4 year old. Catching the ball in the net instead of bugs is showing spatial concept.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Gross Motor Observation
Date: November 6th 2008
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 P.M.
Childs Name: Girl
Birthday: 12-29-2003
Age: Almost 5
The girl I choose to observe is turning 5 next month so I decided to observe both the 4 and 5 year old gross motor skills. The observation takes place at a childcare center first half hour is outside second hour and a half is inside. Its cold outside and it's snowing a little all the children are excited to be out playing in the snow.
I wanted to see the children perform the list of gross motor activity's naturally so I gave a copy to the teacher and talked to her about incorporating the ones i didn't see into the children's normal activity's, while i observed my one child.
While outside I observed the girl play on the jungle gym, she climbs the rope ladder very easily she could also run, start, stop and move around everything very easily. She has very good agility skills. After getting down from the jungle gym she begins to play tag with a group of children as she is running away from her friends I see her jump over a sandbox pail land on both feet and then keep running. The teacher asks if their is any children that would like to play catch with her. The girl I'm observing is one of the children to play catch she can easily throw overhand and out of the five throws from the teacher shes able to catch three of them. The ball is about the size of a softball and its soft plastic. The teacher goes to attend a hurt child and the group of children go their own ways playing. On the way back to the classroom the teacher asks all the children to skip. The teacher along with all the children skip for a little bit. The girl skips easily and says to a child by here "no this is how you do it" and shows the child how to skip. Next the teacher asks the children to count to ten while hopping the girl can also do this easily. I was also able to observe the girl touch her toes without bending her knees, she was able to walk upstairs easily with alternating feet. Walking backwards heel to toe was difficult but after a few trys she was able to do it. The girl could also easily hop on one foot. The four year old gross motor skills were much easier than the five year old ones.
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 P.M.
Childs Name: Girl
Birthday: 12-29-2003
Age: Almost 5
The girl I choose to observe is turning 5 next month so I decided to observe both the 4 and 5 year old gross motor skills. The observation takes place at a childcare center first half hour is outside second hour and a half is inside. Its cold outside and it's snowing a little all the children are excited to be out playing in the snow.
I wanted to see the children perform the list of gross motor activity's naturally so I gave a copy to the teacher and talked to her about incorporating the ones i didn't see into the children's normal activity's, while i observed my one child.
While outside I observed the girl play on the jungle gym, she climbs the rope ladder very easily she could also run, start, stop and move around everything very easily. She has very good agility skills. After getting down from the jungle gym she begins to play tag with a group of children as she is running away from her friends I see her jump over a sandbox pail land on both feet and then keep running. The teacher asks if their is any children that would like to play catch with her. The girl I'm observing is one of the children to play catch she can easily throw overhand and out of the five throws from the teacher shes able to catch three of them. The ball is about the size of a softball and its soft plastic. The teacher goes to attend a hurt child and the group of children go their own ways playing. On the way back to the classroom the teacher asks all the children to skip. The teacher along with all the children skip for a little bit. The girl skips easily and says to a child by here "no this is how you do it" and shows the child how to skip. Next the teacher asks the children to count to ten while hopping the girl can also do this easily. I was also able to observe the girl touch her toes without bending her knees, she was able to walk upstairs easily with alternating feet. Walking backwards heel to toe was difficult but after a few trys she was able to do it. The girl could also easily hop on one foot. The four year old gross motor skills were much easier than the five year old ones.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Child Observation 3 - Post 2
For this observation I choose to do my observation in the sociodramatic play area. In this observation there is 3 children, 2 girls and 1 boy all are age 4. It takes place in a daycare setting.
It is free play or as this teacher likes to call it classroom exploration. All the children are free to choose what they would like to do as long as they follow classroom rules.
Two girls decide to play in the dress up, kitchen area. Both girls are mothers but do there separate thing while playing in the same area this is called parallel play. Girl A is rocking a baby and feeding it a pretend bottle. She is following the theory of Bandura by imitating the adult role. Girl B has blocks that are her baby even though their are more babies in the cradle. Girl B has a blanket laying over the wooden stove and is arranging the blocks on her blanket. She is following both Bandura and Piagets theory, imitating a adult role and pretending the blocks are a baby is Piagets theory. While the girls are playing their is a boy that is watching them play he is in an activity called onlooker because he is focused on what they are doing he makes comments but says them quietly and I cant hear him. Both girls look at him while he is talking but say nothing back. He doesn't enter the area he stays on the backside of the wooden stove and wooden washer. Girl A takes the baby out of the cradle and lays them on the floor. She then wraps her baby in a blanket and set it in the cradle. Girl A goes over to girl B who is still arranging her blocks/baby on a blanket. Girl A asks girl B "What are you doing"? Girl B says "I'm trying to wrap up my baby". The boy reaches over the stove and hits all the blocks while saying "Those are blocks not a dumb baby!" All the blocks fall to the floor. Girl B says to the boy " Get away from here you just ruined everything"! The boy wanders over to the piano and starts pounding on the keys. The teacher comes over and asks him "Please play the piano nicely". The boy looking down at the keys says "No". The teacher asks the boy "What are you upset about"? The boy says "Girl B was using the blocks as a dumb baby and I wanted the blocks". The teacher looking back at the area where the girls just were sees that they have moved onto playing with the peg boards. The blocks are still laying on the floor where they fell. The teacher says to the boy "Look the girls are playing with the peg boards would you like to go play with the blocks now". The boy looks up and smiles and then walks over to the blocks and starts playing with them by himself.
It is free play or as this teacher likes to call it classroom exploration. All the children are free to choose what they would like to do as long as they follow classroom rules.
Two girls decide to play in the dress up, kitchen area. Both girls are mothers but do there separate thing while playing in the same area this is called parallel play. Girl A is rocking a baby and feeding it a pretend bottle. She is following the theory of Bandura by imitating the adult role. Girl B has blocks that are her baby even though their are more babies in the cradle. Girl B has a blanket laying over the wooden stove and is arranging the blocks on her blanket. She is following both Bandura and Piagets theory, imitating a adult role and pretending the blocks are a baby is Piagets theory. While the girls are playing their is a boy that is watching them play he is in an activity called onlooker because he is focused on what they are doing he makes comments but says them quietly and I cant hear him. Both girls look at him while he is talking but say nothing back. He doesn't enter the area he stays on the backside of the wooden stove and wooden washer. Girl A takes the baby out of the cradle and lays them on the floor. She then wraps her baby in a blanket and set it in the cradle. Girl A goes over to girl B who is still arranging her blocks/baby on a blanket. Girl A asks girl B "What are you doing"? Girl B says "I'm trying to wrap up my baby". The boy reaches over the stove and hits all the blocks while saying "Those are blocks not a dumb baby!" All the blocks fall to the floor. Girl B says to the boy " Get away from here you just ruined everything"! The boy wanders over to the piano and starts pounding on the keys. The teacher comes over and asks him "Please play the piano nicely". The boy looking down at the keys says "No". The teacher asks the boy "What are you upset about"? The boy says "Girl B was using the blocks as a dumb baby and I wanted the blocks". The teacher looking back at the area where the girls just were sees that they have moved onto playing with the peg boards. The blocks are still laying on the floor where they fell. The teacher says to the boy "Look the girls are playing with the peg boards would you like to go play with the blocks now". The boy looks up and smiles and then walks over to the blocks and starts playing with them by himself.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Child Observation
Setting: Pre-Kindergarten
Age of children: 22 4 year olds and 1 five year old.
Teachers: Mrs. Kelli is the lead teacher and has a master degree in child education. Mrs. Diana is the assistant and has a Associates Degree.
I observed all the children for 2 hours and 45 minutes. For the first 30 minutes, I observed a 4 year old whose birthday was in May.
While observing the children as whole I noticed 3 main things that seemed to affect the children.
1. The difference between a younger four year old and a older 4 year old. In the book how it described a 3 year old as being calm 4 year old active and 5 year old calm again. I noticed how the younger 4 year olds are calmer. The older 4 year olds are more active.
2. All the boys seemed to be less mature than the girls. Their were younger girls that were more mature than the older boys. The boys development also seemed to be more delayed in all areas than the girls. I found this part very interesting and I'm going to keep an open mind and eye in future observations. the boys attention span also seemed to be less than the girls. The girls seemed to stay longer doing an activity while the boys were changing activities often during free play.
3. The children that had older siblings seemed to be more on track or ahead developmentally than the children who were the oldest or only child.
I observed a 4 year old boy his birthday was in May. I observed him for the first 30 minutes of class. When his father dropped him off he cryed and did not want to stay, he said "I want to go home." Mrs. Kelli the lead teacher took the child from his father. the teacher and boy went to the other end of the room where their is a plexiglass window in the door. The boy and father touched knuckles between the plexiglass. The Father walked away and like a switch was turned to off the boy quit crying. the teacher went to assist other children and the boy stood in the middle of the room looking lost. Another boy came up to him and said " let's go look at Laney the snake. The two boy's walk over to the science area and find Laney the snake hiding in her log. the two boys watch Laney for a few minutes and see some of her skin hanging out a chunk of the log. Next the two boys go look into the cricket house. they find one cricket sitting on a chunk of orange. The cage has a tube on each end of it so the crickets have a dark place to hide and then the teachers can feed the other animals in the science area. Each boy grabs a tube and trys to catch the cricket. Mrs Diana the assistant teacher goes over and asks the boys to only look at the cricket so it doesn't get smashed by the tubes. The boys sit down and look at the cricket, then they notice they can see each other thorough the plastic. The two boys start laughing at each other. The boys grab a tube again and start trying to catch the cricket again. Mrs. Diana comes over again and says "I need to put the cricket away now because I asked you to only look at it and you were trying to catch it again. the one boy goes back to watching Laney and the other boy goes to the block area. He plays with the blocks for a few minutes. He doesn't really talk to any of the children he is kept to himself. Both teachers announce that it is clean up time. The teacher start singing a clean up song and soon all the children are singing and cleaning up. I noticed the children would also pick up other toys not just what they were playing with. After all the toys are cleaned up Mrs. Kelli asks them to sit down for circle time. All the children sit criss cross applesauce hands in their laps. First Mrs. Kelli has each child come up and spell their name on their card that has their picture and full first name. Next she picks a child to be the weather person and the boy I'm observing is picked. The teachers and kids sings a weather song while the boy goes to the window to see what kind of weather is outside. The boy goes back to the teacher and whispers shyly what he seen outside. Mrs. Kelli tells the children he seen clouds and the sun. Mrs. Kelli gives him two cards one with a sun and one with clouds. The boy goes over to the weather chart and with help places the cards in the right spot. the child goes back down and sits in his spot.
Age of children: 22 4 year olds and 1 five year old.
Teachers: Mrs. Kelli is the lead teacher and has a master degree in child education. Mrs. Diana is the assistant and has a Associates Degree.
I observed all the children for 2 hours and 45 minutes. For the first 30 minutes, I observed a 4 year old whose birthday was in May.
While observing the children as whole I noticed 3 main things that seemed to affect the children.
1. The difference between a younger four year old and a older 4 year old. In the book how it described a 3 year old as being calm 4 year old active and 5 year old calm again. I noticed how the younger 4 year olds are calmer. The older 4 year olds are more active.
2. All the boys seemed to be less mature than the girls. Their were younger girls that were more mature than the older boys. The boys development also seemed to be more delayed in all areas than the girls. I found this part very interesting and I'm going to keep an open mind and eye in future observations. the boys attention span also seemed to be less than the girls. The girls seemed to stay longer doing an activity while the boys were changing activities often during free play.
3. The children that had older siblings seemed to be more on track or ahead developmentally than the children who were the oldest or only child.
I observed a 4 year old boy his birthday was in May. I observed him for the first 30 minutes of class. When his father dropped him off he cryed and did not want to stay, he said "I want to go home." Mrs. Kelli the lead teacher took the child from his father. the teacher and boy went to the other end of the room where their is a plexiglass window in the door. The boy and father touched knuckles between the plexiglass. The Father walked away and like a switch was turned to off the boy quit crying. the teacher went to assist other children and the boy stood in the middle of the room looking lost. Another boy came up to him and said " let's go look at Laney the snake. The two boy's walk over to the science area and find Laney the snake hiding in her log. the two boys watch Laney for a few minutes and see some of her skin hanging out a chunk of the log. Next the two boys go look into the cricket house. they find one cricket sitting on a chunk of orange. The cage has a tube on each end of it so the crickets have a dark place to hide and then the teachers can feed the other animals in the science area. Each boy grabs a tube and trys to catch the cricket. Mrs Diana the assistant teacher goes over and asks the boys to only look at the cricket so it doesn't get smashed by the tubes. The boys sit down and look at the cricket, then they notice they can see each other thorough the plastic. The two boys start laughing at each other. The boys grab a tube again and start trying to catch the cricket again. Mrs. Diana comes over again and says "I need to put the cricket away now because I asked you to only look at it and you were trying to catch it again. the one boy goes back to watching Laney and the other boy goes to the block area. He plays with the blocks for a few minutes. He doesn't really talk to any of the children he is kept to himself. Both teachers announce that it is clean up time. The teacher start singing a clean up song and soon all the children are singing and cleaning up. I noticed the children would also pick up other toys not just what they were playing with. After all the toys are cleaned up Mrs. Kelli asks them to sit down for circle time. All the children sit criss cross applesauce hands in their laps. First Mrs. Kelli has each child come up and spell their name on their card that has their picture and full first name. Next she picks a child to be the weather person and the boy I'm observing is picked. The teachers and kids sings a weather song while the boy goes to the window to see what kind of weather is outside. The boy goes back to the teacher and whispers shyly what he seen outside. Mrs. Kelli tells the children he seen clouds and the sun. Mrs. Kelli gives him two cards one with a sun and one with clouds. The boy goes over to the weather chart and with help places the cards in the right spot. the child goes back down and sits in his spot.
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