Child Observation Of Childhood

Observation is important to find out what the child is interested in and what motivates them to learn alongside their progress and how they behave in certain situations with others, and interacting with someone. Child development theories focus on explaining how children change, develop and grow through childhood. My observation of a child was done with a seven old boy by the name of Romeo. I first observed Romeo development such as physical growth, gross motor and fine motor skills. My observation was done at his house. He has black eyes and has fine, short brown hair. He is between 4 feet with 2 inches tall. When I visited him, He was sitting on the floor in his living room which is laying down with two couches and watching television.

| |2. Vygotsky’s theory believed that economic and cultural forces were very influential in child development. |

Subject “Chris” is a 7 year old middle class Caucasian male. Observation is taking place in the child’s home over the course of two separate afternoons. Chris is a friendly and well spoken child who is small for his age. Chris is the youngest child in his family and both observations take place while his siblings are home. In each case one or both parents are absent.

I have talked to the classroom teacher about three similarities between activity transitions in the learning environment for infants and toddlers compared to children 3- to 5-years-old the teacher said that parents, childcare teachers, teachers need to teach children when they are they are still infants to help prepare them for their life when they grow up. Teacher and parents need to have schedule for infants and toddlers for feeding, sleeping,and playtime so that they can learn so that they can become to depend on their own (Honig, 2002). Teachers can have mobiles on cribs or on things so that they infants can listen to the play music, or the teacher can have toys that can sing to the infants and toddlers to help them develop

Aliza has maintained progress on the goals she had previously met. She continues to make friends at school and have meaningful conversations with them about their similar interests. Additionally, at school, she has been integrated with a general education science class and states that she has initiated conversations with her peers in that class.

Observing a child is a fascinating experience. It is amazing to see how differently children view certain things than adults view them. I recently spent an entire day observing a 10 year-old boy who was going about his daily routine. This child is a white American weighs approximately 75 pounds; he appears to be in good health. He’s a tall, skinny boy with long brownish, blonde hair. His attire consist of jeans, convers, and a hoodie. By the end of the day I could see how the child acted around others and I could also see how past psychologists theories work in conjunction with this 10 year old boy being analyzed.

Once in nineteen eighty four there was a community swimming party inAshkum, Illinois. All of the children in the neighborhood went to theparty. They all had to get showers and the pool had to be cleaned beforethey could get in. The owner of the pool turned on the jets and openedthe openings that would let the dirty water out and keep the clean waterin. She also went and got in the shower.When the owner got into the locker room she seen that the water was alight brown color. She just thought that because the water in the poolwas being cleaned the water in the restroom was getting dirty. She gotin the shower and got cleaned.When all of the children were done gettingcleaned and dressed in their swim suits she allowed them to get in. Thewater was

TH has finished his first year of 6th grade at Rose Hill Middle School and is excited to start the 7th grade. TH is a good student that gets A’s, B’s and C’s. Math is one of his favorite subjects. Currently, he receives special education services in reading and math. His teachers give him many questions to challenge him. He states that he likes P.E., because of all the running that they do. He likes being able to hang out with his friends. After school lets out, he usually takes the bus back home. This was the first year riding the bus for him and he thought it was scary, not only because it was a stranger picking him up but also the bus driver drove crazy down the dirt roads (TH, 2018). On days that he has to stay to participate in extracurricular activities, he is picked up by one of his maternal grandparents.

Behavior Observed: Upon entering the house Abby politely took my jacket and hung it up on a chair. She then ran up the stairs and asked me to come see her dollhouse. She identified every little thing in her dollhouse as she was showing it to me. She showed me the “windows”, “stove”, “soap”, “mantel”,

In preschool children get lots of opportunities to play and interact with one another, and who they play with and where they like to play matters. A study was done to observe preschoolers in their social contexts such as where they like to play who they like to play with and playgroup size. The purpose for the study was to observe whether behavior in the fall was related to spring bullying and to see if bullying is different for boys and girls. Participants were preschool children gathered from eighteen head start classrooms and they were observed in three groups over three continous years. The study had a total of 255 children with 131 boys and 124 girls. “Children were observed in their classrooms and on their outdoor playgrounds. Trained observers coded childrens social and interpersonal behaviors over the fall semester of preschool.” (Andrews, Hanish, Fabes and Martin, 2014) Children were observed throughout the school day and obserevers noted if children played one on one or in groups and the gender of childrens peers was noted (Same gender, other gender, and mixed gender play groups) Lastly childrens location was noted. Observers also noted any peer bullying that was observed. The results of the study were that children spent more time playing one on one then in groups for both boys and girls.

In summary, Aracely’s is a bright little girl who is eager to learn and participate. She has shown during this observation the ability stay on task, follow directions and participate. She is able to work independently, with minimal directions from her teacher and it was easy for her teachers to re-direct her if needed to get her back on task. I observed age appropriate social skills with her peers, as she interacted with them and made attempts to assist them with their classwork. I did not observe any maladaptive inappropriate behaviors that appear to interfering with the teacher’s instructions or impeding on the learning environment.

So by asking how the child is feeling today it lets me understand their mood and how well they can express what feelings they have. The more complex children would go about what they did that day and it made them feel. When asking how their day was comes a follow up question of, if anything had made their day better or worse. If they can describe that feeling they are showing self expression, which is good in an early child's life. Usually when it comes to bad moods or good modes its because some other child behavior toward them. Asking a child who the names of their friends are and what they look like is a great way to get the child to use their brains in examining how people look and act as friends. Now when asking a child about what foods

I observed a child, Trisha (coded name) of four years and three months old at the time of observation. She is studying in Nursery 2 with 9 other children and a teacher-in-charge. She has a 7 year old brother. She is Chinese and speaks in Mandarin most of the time. Trisha is 103 cm and 18 kg.

Children are extremely fascinating human beings. They learn things every second and being able to just sit and watch that happen is absolutely amazing. A child views things much differently than an adult would because for children a lot of things are being experienced for the first time. Observing children and their daily routines helps with the understanding of how a typical child should grow and development each day, month, and even year of their lives. During this past thanksgiving break I had the chance to observe a child in order to record some of her actions and to see what her physical, cognitive, language and emotional development. While observing her, I silently watched as she went on with her day but also actively interacted with her and participated in a lot of her activities when she asked me to.

For this child observation, I decided to observe my younger brother Jacob. Jacob is 5 years old, but he insisted that I write that he is almost 6. He is also in kindergarten this year and loving every second of being a loud, rowdy boy. I suppose I am at an advantage in this observation since I have seen the numerous developments in Jacob’s life thus far.