Infant 2 Room Observation

I feel my room design that I created myself, offers the most learning with the given space. Learning centers are set up around the perimeter of the room with an open floor plan for the center of the room. This allows for free movement of the children. The learning centers offer independent play, creativity, imagination, cause and effect play, independent learning, open ended toys in a safe, clean environment that also offers lots of exploring options. I believe children learn best when the childcare space is well organized, offers lots of different options for the children, with clear rules and boundaries set. My program is play based so I believe children need lots of play in their day; child and adult lead

Today is my first day doing my practice observation in the Infant Room Classroom Number 3, my fears are how the infants go reaction to see me because I am new person for them that they never have seen before, how the teacher go feel to have a student in the classroom, if they will support me and cooperate with practice, and how the parents will response to see a new teacher in the classroom, I know for my teaching experience that parents are very special about the people who is round to their children.

As a toddler teacher, I was interested in attending an ECFE class with children between the ages of 16 months and 24 months. Therefore, I contacted the STMA (St. Michael/Albertville) school district to set up an appointment for their Terrific Toddlers class. After getting a background clearance, I was contacted to set up a time to observe the Terrific Toddlers class. On October 24, 2017, I observed this ECFE class. The class goes from 8:30am to 10:00 am, and it was led by parent educator Ms. Liz. The class was a non-separating class, as the children are at the side of their parent(s) the entire time. I was particularly interested in attending a non-separating class because as a toddler teacher, I have never been in a classroom setting with both the child and parent(s) present. This ECFE class meets for eleven weeks every Tuesday; therefore, I observed their 5th session. In this class, the majority of the participates are stay at home mothers.

outside going to play yard but it can not count as ventilation since there was no locking screen or safety half gate/door to keep the children from leaving the door unattended.

The name of Rachel and I’s preschool was Chit Chatter Clubhouse. Our philosophy discusses how our preschool strives to educate the whole child physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually. We also strive to provide stimulation activities that will prepare our students for the future. Based off of this philosophy we were able to choose different materials from the content areas and set up our classroom with the areas of science, math, block, art, P.E./movement, dramatic play, and reading/writing and morning meeting/circle time. We decided on materials for these areas based off of our goals as well. We found developmentally appropriate furniture such as shelves, tables, chairs, and couches. These furniture pieces were low to the ground since we are teaching 3-5 year olds. Along with these furniture pieces, we have a teacher area with shelving and a desk for us so we can create lessons or work on things to make us better teachers. We have sinks and bathrooms that help students become independent and learn healthy

I have been given the responsibility of stocking the toy room of the ABC Child Care Center with toys that are appropriate for infants and toddlers as well as preschoolers. The toys need to be safe and washable. They also need to enhance the physical, cognitive, social and emotional growth of children from infancy to early childhood. The following contains my proposals. The first part will encompass recommendations for the infant and toddler room followed by recommendations for preschoolers.

Surrounding each home base is a cluster of resource rich activity pockets (primary activity spaces), one for each of the developmentally oriented activities for each age group in that house. Three to four activity pockets can be clustered together, each sized for 2-5 children plus a caregiver. Each activity pocket has a sense of closure, but has cross visibility and is easily visible by an adult. Each pocket has all the teaching materials, displays, and work/play surfaces necessary for that activity. Examples of the great variety necessary: block area, art studio, music corner, science corner, reading/listening area, sand/water play,

of what had happened, consequently making the psychological grief process much more difficult. Baby items or baby rooms can additionally serve as a harsh reminder of what happened until those objects can be moved or changed when the parent feels ready.

Since my observation took the course of three days I have several findings. So day one’s observation begin with Regina and Gabriella who appear to be accompanying Annabel to what appears to be a building of great interest. While the exterior looked plain the inside does not the walls are lined with these brilliant garments the walls are also adorned with several looking glass. When they enter Annabel begins communicating with another human who then leaves and the three appear to sit on these rectangular prisms. The human from earlier comes back and she is followed by four other humans who each appear to be bringing a square on wheels and in these squares each appear to be carrying five brilliant garments. When I first entered the building there

Ms. Nicole Ince's classroom welcomed me for an observation on Wednesday, July 29th, 2015. Ms. Nicole has recently had a few drops with children preparing for kindergarten so her numbers have changed. There were 21 children when I began my observations but the class roster has dropped down to 18 with the class split nine boys and nine girls. Her classroom is located in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Child Care Center which is located in rural Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The school is also a private school that maintains a waitlist. It contains four classrooms; Ms. Nicoles preschool class, two toddler rooms consisting of children 18 to 36 months and an infant room with children birth to 18 months.

I observed the two year old baby that I often baby-sit throughout the week. His name is Lincoln and he his at my house from seven til around four every weekday. Although he is very small and seems to be behind on development, he is very smart. He loves to play with his toys, and always has to be doing something. He is very aware of what goes on around him and he interacts with these things very well. He likes to repeat things that are said and done. Especially things I say or do. He calls my mom pretty often, but he seems to know the difference between her and his own mother so I think he does it out of habit, because he’ll usually do it when he is pouting, being ignored, or tired. He talks very well, but sometimes he’ll say something and

Developmentally appropriate practice in an infant setting that shows examples of bidirectional and/or reciprocal relationships that exist between infants, families and child care settings are:

Good morning John and Susan, it’s good to see you and Baby Steven today. After reviewing his growth chart and comparing it to the CDC growth chart, it looks like baby Steven is at the 75th percentile. A percentile that is greater than the 50th percentiles means a baby is above average (The WHO Child Growth Standards). This being said baby Steven is a little above average for his age. He is considered to be slightly overweight but it is nothing to worry about at this point. The rule of thumb is there is nothing to worry about unless a child jumps above or below two percentile lines.

Wonderland of Learning has six different rooms in this center. Room one has infants on one side and junior toddlers on the other, room two has toddlers on one side and junior preschool on the other, room three is preschool, and room four is begindergarten. I have worked in the infant room, junior toddler room, preschool room, and the begindergarten room. The infant and junior toddler room wall is color bright green and has stickers of little cartoon animals all along the wall. Each of these rooms has an additional room which holds the cribs for each child. The room itself is very

The center’s environment is very clean, but it had a very strong bleach smell, I felt like it was overpowering. Every room was set up and separated with low rising shelves so the different areas could be separated such as dramatic play area, science area, block building area where the was a carpet on the floor, reading area with cushions and pillows and even an open art table with crayons, paper and coloring books.