Home Observation Paper

On this date and time this worker met with Elizabeth Rhodes at Holtville Elementary. She appeared to be clean, healthy, and adequately dressed.

It should be noted I observed several drops of blood in a trail from apartment

The date of my observation was April 27th, 2010. It was about 9:30 in the morning when I began my study. I went to Grossmont College’s Child Development Center. The first thing I began looking for was if the child-teacher ratio was correct. The child ratio was 2 teachers to about every 8 children. The ratio was good. As I entered there was one large room that almost looked as if it could be two rooms they way it was set up. One half consisted of a large bookshelf with numerous books on it with a couch in the front of it. The other half of the room was almost like a little kitchen. It had a table with chairs around it with a sink and cabinets behind it. There were “age appropriate” toys as well as books all over the

Jackson appeared withdrawn, and was somewhat embarrassed before stating that he did not do well in school. Jackson knows that he can perform better in school. When the other children began to tease Jackson, he was ready to fight some of them. This is typical behavior for Jackson, and is also a pattern of disorganized attachment. Children with a disorganized pattern in infancy tend to show disturbed patterns of relationships, subsequently, their relationships with peers can often be characterized by a “fight or flight” pattern of alternate aggression and withdrawal. Jackson’s coping skills when upset, threatened, or embarrassed is fight, unless the person is physically bigger than him. If this is the case, Jackson uses flight to cope, and seeks his grandmother for protection and comfort.

Jayden King Jr. is a seven-year-old boy who is currently in a District 75 program. Jayden Jr. is classified as emotionally disturbed since 2014 and is currently placed in an 8-1-1 second-grade class. Jayden Jr. has a one to one crisis paraprofessional to ensure the safety of the student’s and himself. The crisis paraprofessional works closely with the student to provide assistance with assignments, staying on task and transitioning throughout the building.

I gathered information from Terrence G by interacting and by asking series of questions. In addition, I asked his mother Nicole G questions that Terrance did not know the answer to. The interview took place in the living room of their home Saturday afternoon. I spent an hour observing the participant.

Per Reporter: Caitlin and the child lived with Lorraine for a while. Lorraine and Caitlin used to work together. While in the home with Lorraine, Caitlin was caught medicating the child with Benadryl or anything that cause drowsiness to make the child sleep at night. Caitlin would leave the child screaming at night. Caitlin screamed and cursed at the child due to her not wanting to deal with the her. Caitlin and the child moved in with Steven (Caitlin’s Ex) for a while. Steven stated that he was the primary caretaker for the child while at his home; Caitlin wouldn’t properly care for the child. Caitlin lost custody of her son (Caden) due to neglect as well. Caden is in the care of his father (Josh). On March 14, 2017, Caitlin left the child

I observed a three-year-old male child as he played in the playroom at a home daycare facility. The playroom consisted of various toys along with a jungle gym with a slide attachment. When the child arrived he immediately ran over to the slide, climbed up and slid down the edge of the slide. Even though there were other children on the slide, he did not interact with them. After coming off of the slide he ran over to an area of the play room that had a racetrack and a set of cars. He chose one car and rolled it down the track. He waved his hands up and down in joy as the car rolls off of the track. He looks around the room and sees a box of plastic bugs. He gets a couple of bugs out and moves them across the floor. He looks around the

Ana is a 10-year-old girl in a general education 5th grade classroom at an elementary school in the Bronx. With regards to her academic Ana struggles with reading and writing skills. Ana told me that she often needed individual assistance to complete her assignments both in school and at home. She also told me that she was taken out of her classroom twice a week to see a speech therapist. I selected this child for my observation because I wanted to see if she is able to adapt to different surroundings and concentrate in reading while being in a place with strangers. For children taking them out of their comfort zone sometimes inhibits them from giving their full potentials. Ana’s mother Sandra told me that in school Ana is talkative and easily

On the 5th of February 2016 I observed a two year old boy by the name of Tyler Brown at 12:00 pm in the afternoon in his home with his mother. Tyler has a younger brother Jordan who is approximately 4 months old. Tyler just started preschool and he is very excited and constantly refers to his school. He was born on the February 11, 2013.

I decided that for this assignment that I would go to Walmart and observe their toy department. I chose this retailer simply because it was convenient, and it supplied a wide variety of toys for me to observe. Before I went to the toy aisle, I found myself reminiscing about my trips to the toy aisle. When I was a young girl the toy aisle was a pink wonderland. From what I can recall, all the packaging for girl toys were pink and violet whereas boy toys were blue and green. The former girl aisle mainly consisted of Barbie’s, Polly Pocket toys, Littlest Pet Shop toys, baby dolls, stuffed animals, and kitchen playsets. I do not remember much about the boys’ aisle except that there were a lot of toy automobiles. I also do not remember any gender neutral specific toys; however, that could be due to my age. I was surprised to find that the toy section actually had gender neutral toys. They had outdoor toys like balls, hula-hoops, kites, and jump

I would make the topic of data collecting, organizing, and presenting relevant to the children by introducing it and modeling it. As an early childhood educator I understand that children should be allowed to explore and they are curious. They wonder as they explore and will ask questions. Furthermore I comprehend that each of these questions causes the need for children to observe, collect information or data, reflect upon our data, and determine answer and for theories around the world (Davis & Keller, 2009. p.70).

The purpose of this observational is to examine the effects of stress on college students during a college assignment. By taking six public speaking students and observing anxiety and stress related effects taking place on the student’s body at the time of preparing for a speech. Observing nervous tensions while standing in front of a large crowd, along with gestures exhibited while preparing for initial talk. Also, information was collected after the presentation was finished by asking how they felt, was the stress too much, and how do they feel now that’s it’s over. The data returned proved that in times of stress, there are also increase levels of anxiety in the participants. Also, when the presentation was over the scholars seemed to be

On Saturday, February 13th, I went to the McNay Art Museum that is located just outside of San Antonio in Alamo Heights. The museum has many sculptures and art structures are located right outside of the museum with a backdrop of beautiful landscaping. While observing all of these structures, I came across Cantate Domino which is a bronze structure by Barbra Hepworth that was made beautifully.

When I was little, one of my favorite things to draw was my house. I don’t know why I loved it so much, but I loved drawing my yard and how big my house was. Something about drawing my home was special to me. As I looked through the website, there were many well drawn and colored pictures but two stuck out the most to me. These two students that drew these pictures where asked to draw a picture of where they live. The pictures are similar in many ways as well as different in many ways.