Early Childhood Observation Report

“I know”, talkative, and energetic are three words that describe my five year old nephew, Landon. First, let me tell you a little bit about him and his family! Landon is an only child that lives in a development with a lot of other children. His mother, Jessica, travels for work and is gone most weekends and some week days too. Kyle, his father, is a car salesman and works long days. Landon is often dropped off at daycare by one of his parents and then taken care of after kindergarten by a babysitter. At home he also has three dogs and is very interested in playing baseball.

During my observation at the preschool here at Harper, I looked around and realized a lot of similarities and differences it has; compared to other daycare and preschool centers. The age of children in the room I observed was ages 3-5 with one lead teacher, and depending on the ratio of how many kids showed up on that day, about three or four helping teachers. The program was set up to a very open, happy and overwhelming setting. Every furniture and object in the room had a sign saying what it was, and then underneath the typed out word was the children’s way of writing what the object was. For example, a book shelf was in the corner of the room; on the book shelf was the word printed out “Book

In addition, during my observation, Sydney was able to demonstrate the following gross motor skills. Sydney was placed in a sitting position on the table as well on the floor and was able to sit up unassisted for brief periods of time. Although Sydney appeared to be unstable at times, her mother closely spotted her to ensure her safety. Most babies are able to sit up by themselves unassisted for short periods of time (Oswalt, n.d.). By being able to sit upright and support the weight of her head in the proper position, shows Sydney has developed her core body strength and has met this developmental milestone. In addition, while lying on a blanket on her stomach, Sydney was able to lift her chest and head. According to American Pregnancy Association, most infants at 6 months old can lift their chest and part of their stomach while lying face down (First,

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In this research article, there are a few research questions being presented. The overall topic however is child care and how that affects behavior and development as we grow up. The first one is discussing long term effects of child care. This involves considering the quality, quantity, and the type of child care. Another question that is presented discusses how each of the aspects I had just mentioned relates to academics and behavior as well. The final question being presented discusses effects from early child care coming up later in life or disintegrating completely.

Within my ten hours of observation, I witnessed an Early Childhood, Childhood, and Middle Childhood classroom. Through the duration of these hours, I visited School 17 and School 30. My seven hours at School 17 consisted of experiences within an Early Childhood and a Childhood setting. The Early Childhood hours occurred in a Pre-Kindergarten classroom setting with Ms. Mitrakos. The Childhood observations occurred in a first-grade classroom with Ms. Hordan. My three hours at School 30 involved experiences within a Middle Childhood setting. These observation hours occurred in a 6th-grade math class. My observations within both schools inspired me to continue my passion for Early Childhood Education.

I observed a child named Caiden Rawson. He is 24 months old. I observed him on his farm in Kosciusko, MS for two hours. According to chapter one of our book, he is currently in the developmental stage of infancy.

The sun is out. It is a gorgeous spring day in the desert. There are sounds of children laughing at the swing set, and dogs lapping at water nearby. The smell of the burgers on the grill makes my mouth water as I approach the park bench. I set down the neatly wrapped gift that will soon be torn apart by an eager child. I approach the group of friends laughing as I am greeted with a warm hug. For my observation, I attended a one-year-old birthday party on Saturday, April 23rd from 10 am to 1 pm at Luckie Park. I observed several people at different life stages that I will discuss. Infancy stage was represented through Liam at three months, and Johnny at one year. Lilian, seven years old, is in the childhood stage. I observed Erin as the young

On July 9 at approximately 1800 I observed an individual walking up the Priest Rapids Road towards the intake. As he was walking up he would stop and began yelling and screaming at something towards the dam. I hurried and grab my patrol radio along with my keys for the patrol car. I got on the radio and inform priest control that I was on site. They asked if I was aware of the gentleman walking across the damn. I informed them that yes I was and that I was heading up towards the intake deck to make contact. They informed me that it look like he was carrying something sharp in his hand. When I pulled up to him and got out of the vehicle I could see that his hands were up in his fist were clinched. As I got closer I noticed that he had a small

On the event date above, CP attempted to conduct a schedule home visits to Selena Goodall residence. The CP was advised by Selena adoptive brother that she was not home. The CP then proceed to call Selena about her whereabouts. Selena apologized to the CP and stated that she is at Myan daycare center picking the child up. The Cp advised Selena that any point that she feels that she is running to call the CP immediately. The CP asked Selena about the status of the speech evaluator and Selena reports that she scheduled an appointment this up coming Saturday. The CP discussed about rescheduling the home visit for next week in the morning before Myan goes to daycare because the CP stated to Selena that the CP is booked in the evening and needs

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

The pre-observation conference was held with the Health Care Cluster (HCC) instructor on September 10, 2015. The instructor is a twelve year veteran and has taught HCC at the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center (LCCTC) for all of those years with two years at the Brownstown campus and ten years at the Mount Joy campus. Before becoming a teacher she was employed in the medical field as a nurse, staff educator, and manager at hospitals in the Lancaster area. She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and has her Vocational II Teacher Certification.

observations began at Five, we begun outside where he has a basketball hoop and we

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study was conducted in the 1990s, and its main goal was to follow 20,000 children from kindergarten to the fifth grade and recorded their academic progress, race, gender, family structure, socioeconomic status, the level of their parents’ education and other survey information. The focal point of the ECLS was to help determine what factors can correlate together when coming from different circumstances. In the study, researchers were able to collect various test scores from the children throughout their years in school, to see if any of the factors correlate to each other. Because the study contained a lot of information, researchers used a tool called regression analysis to weed out excess data, and focus in

According to Ohio State University and University of Texas researchers, students who ate more fast food had test scores that were 20% lower than those who didn't eat any fast food. Lead Author of the study, Kelly Purtell believes that this can provide evidence that fast food consumption is to blame for the deleterious academic outcomes of children.