What Is My Early Childhood Observation

I will be observing a seven-year-old child for my project. What I have learned from being a parent and watching my kids as they grow up the social emotional, physical and intellectual changes that occur in children between birth and the end of adolescence are that they all progress at individual intervals from dependency to increasing individualism. Because these developmental changes may be strongly influenced by genetic factors and events during prenatal life, genetics and prenatal development are usually included as part of the built in parenting skills we all possess. When children are born they have no sense of fear but quickly develop a fear of what

“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.

During my observation at the preschool here at Harper, I looked around and realized a lot of similarities and differences it has; compared to other daycare and preschool centers. The age of children in the room I observed was ages 3-5 with one lead teacher, and depending on the ratio of how many kids showed up on that day, about three or four helping teachers. The program was set up to a very open, happy and overwhelming setting. Every furniture and object in the room had a sign saying what it was, and then underneath the typed out word was the children’s way of writing what the object was. For example, a book shelf was in the corner of the room; on the book shelf was the word printed out “Book

I have talked to the classroom teacher about three similarities between activity transitions in the learning environment for infants and toddlers compared to children 3- to 5-years-old the teacher said that parents, childcare teachers, teachers need to teach children when they are they are still infants to help prepare them for their life when they grow up. Teacher and parents need to have schedule for infants and toddlers for feeding, sleeping,and playtime so that they can learn so that they can become to depend on their own (Honig, 2002). Teachers can have mobiles on cribs or on things so that they infants can listen to the play music, or the teacher can have toys that can sing to the infants and toddlers to help them develop

All of the mentioned observations are linked to biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human developmental in early childhood. The observations provided many connections to different concepts and theories produced by developmental psychologists. This analysis provides an understanding as to why the children acted the way they did in the observations.

observations began at Five, we begun outside where he has a basketball hoop and we

For this developmental observation, I decided to observe Sarah. She is a five-year-old in the stage of early childhood staying at the Ronald McDonald House. She is a loving, fun, and energetic kid. It was interesting to observe her and see what seemed normal for a girl her age to act. I was able to learn from interacting and observing Sarah.

I was able to observe the oldest preschool classroom we have at the center I currently work at for one hour. The classroom has about 20 children, ranging from four to five-year-old’s. They are the classroom that gets the children Kindergarten ready. There are three teachers that work in the classroom: Teacher P., Teacher A., and Teacher J. The large group time started after the children went to the bathroom, about mid-morning. Teacher P. leads the group time and teachers A. and J. did room prep.

G.J is about a 4-year-old girl who looks like she weighs about 30-40 pounds, and she looks like she has no known physical or cognitive disorders. According to the textbook the brain matures at about age 4 that enables children to switch from one way of sorting objects to another. This observation took place at church which lasted about an hour.

I have chosen to observe the second video of preschoolers participating in free-play. In the video the toddlers are gathered in the classroom taking part in different activities. The room is a large open concept room with a variety of sections that enable the children’s play.

(not his real name) is an 11 year old boy, the oldest of three children. He will be attending middle school in the fall. His brother and sister are 10 years and four years old, respectively. Mark’s mother has worked with my wife for many years. Prior to this assignment, my knowledge of Mark came almost entirely from conversations with my wife. The mother is a youth group minister, and the father works for a local Sheriff’s department. My wife and I socialized with the parents a few times in the past 10 years, primarily at adult-only work events. We did watch the boys about five years ago. I remember them being unusually active. The mother has consulted my wife in the past on ideas for manages the boys. As a result of this background, I anticipated

I cannot even explain or understand how much parents love the head teachers in every room, which is a great success on their part and on the owner’s part. I have heard nothing but nice words about the teachers from parents and parents love talking to the lead teacher in infant every morning. I understand how they could love her, she puts on a great front when the parents come, but boy they should see her when they all leave. We have a window that looks into the parking lot so she looks to see when people are coming so she can put on her acting face. She is great with infants she really is, but she is constantly not following the rules and laws that Ohio has for childcare. She is constantly leaving the room to go talk to other staff members

To begin with, as I observe Kaite during dinner time, it is evident that she has developed a fixation from the oral stage; overeating. The oral stage of a child’s life is critical to the development of habits forming in the child’s future. The primary focus during the oral stage is the mouth and breast feeding. If a child weans from their mother’s breast too early, they will development a fixation later in life. Unfortunately, Kaite was weaned too early from her mother’s breast which resulted in a fixation of being too dependent of having in anything in her mouth- in this case, food. Her habit of overeating is also a result of her evil inner self (her id) overruling her nice inner self (her superego).

I did my observation on Todd who is a family-friend of mine. He is 62, married with children, employed, Caucasian, and very busy. A notable difference from what was predicted was that at Todd’s age, he should be cutting back on his hours and preparing for retirement. Todd has retired from one job but now he is starting a new one that is full time and he frequently works overtime. This is unusual to start a whole new career at this age. He is taking a big chance with this decision when people around his age are normally settled in their job and looking to take their jobs till retirement. Another change that was really unexpected was that his sleep has actually improved recently. People at this age usually have disrupted sleep and develop sleep disorders. He did say that the improvement in sleep was from his skin cancer surgeries so, having that worry gone led to the improvements. He could have been sleeping horribly before the surgery and now he could still have sleeping issues but, he does not think about that because he is sleeping better