Preschool Child Care Observation

On November 13, 2014 at Grossmont College’s Child Development Center, I observed Konnor who was born on March 11, 2011. At the center, there are roughly around 15 children between the ages of three and five; there is one adult for every six or so kids. The preschool center’s indoor environment is safely secured with a locked gate that separates the outside door which leads to the younger children centers and parking lot with the hallway to the learning and play area. There are two separate rooms, but they both have screen doors that lead to the same play area outside. The room on the left, which Konnor is placed in, was smaller

“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.

I got an appointment for observation on July 13 at De-Anza Child Development Center. I chose room No. 26 for observation. I observed one child from 3:26 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. There are total 10 children present in room no.26 at the time of my observation. Out of 10 there are 4 girls and 6 boys. They range from 3 to 5 years of age. There are three adults in the room, all are female. One adult for every 3 children- 1:3. When I entered kids are doing free play. I settled myself and started to observe a kid named Aaron. He is around 3 and half years of age.

Through interviewing Joyce I gained insight into a strong philosophy, leadership style, and how her background experiences have created the director she is today. When deciding to become a director of a daycare, there are two options: opening and owning your own center or directing an established or corporate owned daycare. While I have done much research on owning my own daycare, I have little experience about what it would be like to be the director of an established center. Financial responsibilities and budgeting are also two aspects that are important, but the level of responsibility is drastically different in each scenario. Lastly, legal and ethical responsibilities exist in either scenario as well.

At Children’s Discovery Center the daycare is split into two buildings, one building is for the children in pre-school and the second building is for infants to three year olds getting ready to start pre- school. The classroom I observe is for children 18 months to 28 months. They are about fourteen children in the class with two teachers. The way the class is set up the younger students and their two teachers share one classroom, but the teachers and their toddlers are not in the same room until lunch time and nap time. The classroom has a kitchen, reading area, girls and boys bathroom, activity tables and there is a connecting room for the children to have bible time and free play. The discovery center has three separate playgrounds for the

The adult role in the scenario was okay but it could have been better. The only time the caregivers responded to the children when they were doing something they were not supposed to do. When you around children you should always be communicating with them this helps their language skills. The caregivers stayed in one spot on the carpet. When your involved around children there should be a lot of movement. You should not just move because they are about to hurt their self. Some families might believe that the scenario with the two toddlers with the ball is teaching them how to share. I like how the caregiver was able to get to the children before they hurt their self or anybody else. When the two children was playing with the one ball the caregiver

For the classroom observation assignment I was able to observe at Stepping Stones Family Childcare and Preschool Program. I conducted observations for five hours each on the dates of September 24th and September 25th of the year 2015. This licensed home-based daycare and preschool program is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood on 4103 Bryant Street, Blasdell, New York. The facility allows for a twelve-child capacity (ages 6 weeks to 12 years with four additional school age) and is owned and founded by Kim Bannister. When I observed, there were two additional staff present. Therefore, there were a total of 3 adults and 12 children at the center when I observed. New York State Senator Marc C. Panepinto was also present on September 25th as he read to the children and toured the home. I chose this specific setting as I personally thought it would be an interesting dynamic to study how a home-based preschool program is run.

The place I observed was the Infant Development Program in their preschool program called Stepping Stones Preschool in Lock Haven, PA. I observed in one of their three to five year old preschool programs that is held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 11:30am to 2:30pm. This particular classroom had two head teachers; Mrs. Kate and Mrs. Lisa. The teacher call their students Owls this is because their class name is Owls. When they want to get the kids to listen to them or they want to get their attention a teacher will say “Owls Owls Whoo Whoo” and the kids will say “Owls Owls Whoo Whoo”. Another thing the teachers will also refer to the students as friends. In this classroom there was four boys and four girls. I observed two

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.

I am an education major and I want to own my own daycare one day. I am going to use a daycare to demonstrate the different organelles. Golgi apparatus is like the cook in a daycare. The cook and the Golgi apparatus both transfers proteins. Ribosomes are like food because ribosomes proved protein to that cell just like how food give humans protein. The Cytoplasm is like the building of the daycare. The Cytoplasm holds all of the objects in the cell, and the building holds everything in the daycare together. The Nucleus is like an office because, the nucleus hold all of the information just like an office. The Cell Membrane is like an outlet cover it stop the kids from putting their hands inside of the outlets It is away the teachers can know

In conclusion, I decided to do this particular topic because of personal experience. I observed a daycare facility; the teacher had a child that was not able to digest food items like a typical child. The child was three years old. She was feeding in a feeding tube. The teacher in the class room was not able to work the machine so the child can eat. All the children in the center finished eating besides the child. The teacher had to go to classroom to classroom to receive

In the child care center where I work, I have observed a 4-year-old boy who was diagnosed with learning disabilities. His strength is that he likes to do art. At the art table, the teacher asks the children in small group activities to draw anything while she gives them construction paper and crayons. He effectively draws her dad, mom, and sister He is describing the picture by naming each family member while the teacher writes down their name under each picture. He demonstrates a learning disposition of creativity and imagination. She shows fine motor control when using the crayon to draw the picture. She also has the ability to use different shapes to express her ideas about her family. She has shown that she is mastering the basic forms

Unlike the other observational periods, the first fifteen minutes started immediately with watching someone in the age group needed. I came into the UCF Creative School for Children at 7:25, signed in and spoke with the receptionist about the age group I needed to observer. Very rarely do any children around the age of twelve or older come into the daycare, but the volunteers that normally help in the center are high school and college aged. Luckily for me, today there were two nineteen year old and three eighteen year old coming today to help out. As it were, there was a nineteen year old volunteer setting up the toddler room before I got into the daycare, so I was asked to wait until some kids arrived before I was brought back into the room.

I observed at a child care center with per school children age 3-5, between the hours of 11:00am and 1:00pm as well as 9:00am to 1:00pm. I observed a little boy who is five years old his name is Taylor*. I noticed that during center time this little boy just stood around and watched student’s arounds him play and waited for the teachers to integrate him into the children’s play. When I approached the teacher and asked why? I was told that he normally plays with one other child and that child is out because his family is dealing with something. So this day he just kind of floated around the room not really playing but watching the children as they played if you didn’t know any better you would think he was new to the class. He also didn’t talk

At the time of the activity, the teacher gathers the 12 children at the table, and together with their assistant explain the activity of the day. Usually the children of three, four and five years already know the routine well, and sit around the table. While the smallest of two years with the help of the assistant and in chairs with insurance also participate in the activity. On this day, activity was about mother’s day, children were using colored paper, scissors, some stickers, and paintings to make a card. At the moment the teacher explained to them about the project to be done, sometimes she had to raise her voice a little or emphasize some words, because the smaller ones distracted the bigger ones. But since from the hour of the circle and I inform them on what would treat the project, they already had an idea of what was going to do; Without however, the assistant had to support more with the smaller ones.