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Reflection On Child Development

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The child’s name is Zahra and she was born February 4th 2014 and when I observed she is 4 years old. The health history of the child was that she was full term and 9 pounds, and she doesn’t have any health issues, recurring conditions or accidents that require medical care. She does have siblings actually two of them, one is nine and the other is eleven. But they do not live in the same home and the four year old. She is the third child, and it doesn’t have an impact on her only that she looks up to her brother and sister. In the home there is one parent which is her mother but also in the home there is her grandmother. The grandmother has her bachelor’s degree and the mother has her associate’s degree. There is one adult family member …show more content…

In autonomy she does know what she likes to eat and what she likes to play with so in certain stage I do see her already doing things in but in others she has time to work in them Her cognitive development compared to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development would be in the preoperational stage for toddler through the age of seven. And within this children are able to think symbolically and their language become more mature. And around this age they develop memory and imagination, and engaging in make-believe play. With her she is able to play by herself and with other people and I have noticed when she does play by herself or even when she was playing with her shopkin toys she was doing make-believe play as if the toys are talking to each other. Her language development compared to the typical age using milestone charts she is going to have to work in class or even out of class to take turns and responding appropriately to her partners remark or anyone who is trying to tell her something or help her. How children rely on sounds in the names of letter and they grasp the sound letter correspondences and learn that some letter have more than one common sound. For the next stage in her physical/motor development using the milestones she should be working on tying her shoes, being able to draw more complex/detailed picture if possible, and being able to hold her pencil in an

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