I Was An Eiffel Tower

I observed a classroom of four-year-old students who are enrolled at the Child Development Center on the George Mason University campus. This observation lasted about fifteen minutes with a total of twelve students in the classroom. At the time of my observation the students were engaging in free playtime where they are allowed to play games, make crafts, and interact with their fellow classmates. I was seated in the corner of the classroom where the children could not easily see me or get distracted by me. I stayed seated throughout the whole observation so the students would not be affected by my presence. Many different activities were happening at the same time, but a couple standout situations reminded me of many subject areas we

Context: I was observing one child playing on the playground at the Brookville Center for Children’s Services. The child was female, and her name was Vanessa. She is three years old and is very energetic. During my observation, I noticed her interacting with another child at the daycare. The other child was male and one year older. Both students were taking turns climbing up the ladder to slide down the playground slide.

He walks to the stairs and he lies on green pillow and tells to another kid, “Let’s play, drama play.” He touches his right leg shoe with right hand. He removes same shoe with right hand by pulling Velcro with the same hand. He throws some dust out of his right shoe with his left hand. He puts on right leg shoe, with right hand. He closes Velcro with right hand. Aaron’s adult tells everyone “cleanup”. He picks up red car from the floor, which is front of him and puts the red car in the basket on the table. He picks up green monster truck from the floor and puts the monster truck in the same basket. He picks up plastic camel from the floor and put in the basket on one shelf, which is right in front of him. He picks up rubric cube from the floor and puts it in one plastic box, which is open on the third table. He closes the lid of that plastic box and puts the box away in the shelf. He picks up one green car from the floor and puts it in the basket. He picks up one peace of puzzle and sets it in the puzzle frame, which is lying on the floor. He picks up another peace from the floor and joins in the puzzle. He picks up another peace from the floor and attaches it into the puzzle. He tells, “I am done, with the clean up.” He walks towards the dining area of his classroom. He looks at the adult, (wasn’t able to identify whether she was a volunteer) who calls everyone, “snack time.” The adult smiles and says, “Aaron, would you like to eat yogurt and peaches? Wash

Context: For my project my will observe my friends child Leah, Leah is three years old and four months. I went to her home to observe her. Leah lives at home with her mom, dad and two older sisters. Her sisters are nine and six years old. When I arrived at the house Leah was sitting on the couch watching Wonder Pets, her favorite show. Only Leah and her mom were home at this time, her sisters were still in school and the dad was at work. I have been to the house many times before and Leah is very comfortable around me. My

Setting : Observation took place in a classroom of Richmond Preschool . There were 18 children who are 4 years old, 3 ECE teachers and 1 volunteer during this observation.

In these Kindergarten classrooms, Susan Blow became aware that children learn language, science, and math skills by engaging with objects such aw balls and blocks. After experiencing this, Blow felt inspired to bring these concepts back to the United States and incorporate then to the public school system with the help of her

some of their reactions were hilarious. I noticed that one child jumped around and screamed that “he was here, he was here,” and another child was looking around the room trying to find the leprechaun. Overall, I found that most of the kids seemed to have beliefs based on what they sensed to be true, rather than on what would be logic or rational. Language development between the 4 year old children was amazing. There were some grammatical problems that I picked up on throughout the observation. The five year old girl was very good with sentence structure and words. I did notice a lot of the four year old children struggled with prepositions, suffixes, and prefixes. I few sentences I heard were, “he sitted down on me,” or “she hitted me with the beaver. I noticed a lot of imitation in the children. I guess I was an adult model for some of the children. I noticed that one child followed me around the room one time when I went to go to the bathroom. He did not go into the bathroom, but I did notice that everything I did when I walked back to the room, he did. The two twin girls that I observed came over to me and started asking me questions, like “what’s your name?”, what are you doing?” when I answered the question the two girls would repeat everything that I said. I guess that would be a form of imitation. I also noticed imitation between the kids themselves.

I observed Harper, a 23 month old little girl that is full of energy. Also participating in the interaction with Harper was her mother and five year old sister, Mya. Harper is very friendly and outgoing. She is very interested “reading books” and loves to be read to. She enjoys helping her mother clean and do simple tasks. She seems to be very confident with and without her mother in her sight. Harper’s father is not actively involved in her life because he lives in another state.

Today, Kellen and Sam are playing in the kitchen area. They are both parallel play by playing near each other and using the same types of toys. Kellen starts to put a plastic broccoli in the bowl and mix it. After that, Kellen called his bowl broccoli. Sam takes the toast and puts it on the plate. Sam called his plate, bread.After that, he puts the toast and the plate in the bowl. By the end, they both separate from each other and the by running off

In the first stage of the experiment, children were brought to the experimental room by the controller and the model, who was in the hallway outside the room and was invited to come in and join in the game. The room was set up for playing and the activities were selected because they had high interest for nursery school children. One area was arranged was a child’s play area, where there was a table and chair, potato prints and stickers. After settling the child in its corner the adult model was brought to the other side of the room where there was a small table, chair, tinker-toy set, a mallet and a big inflatable Bobo doll. After the model was seated the experimenter left the experimental room (Diessner, 2008).

I observed Bella Post, who is my next door neighbor. Bella is 10 years old and her birthday is December 23, 2005. I observed Bella on November 17th, 2016 at Bella’s house. I observed her in her room and also downstairs in their family room. I observed her for a two-hour time frame, 6:00-8:00pm. While observing Bella, her mom and her little brother were present. Asher, her brother, is 7 years old. There were no other circumstances that may have influenced my

animals on the pieces of wood. The children can use the parquet shapes to fill the animal in, or to trace

Through play our learning and development extends. We discover new ways to achieve a goal such as, fitting differently shaped cubes into their correct holes. By twisting and turning the cubes children begin to understand that the shapes correspond to the holes on the ball.

The key to understanding children is observation. As observers, we begin to look for daily patterns in their behavior. Once patterns of behavior are recognized, the observer can then give positive guidance in securing the child’s developmental needs.

This observation took place September 26, 2014 at a daycare in Homestead. A friend of mine is a teacher at “My Little Angels” and while waiting for her, I sat down to watch some children playing. There were many kids to do the observation on, but a little girl playing kitchen set caught my eye. I started watching her from 2:00pm to 2:33pm. It is fascinating what kids do and what we can find out about their behavior by watching them for just thirty minutes.