Observation of the Early Childhood An observation was held in the children'"s wing of Tarrant County Junior College. A variety of children between the ages of two to six were observed in activities ranging from physical and motor to social and cognitive development. Specifically I mean that whether it was leadership skills or lack of, running, climbing and jumping, drawing and writing, or anything that could fall between, it has been seen, done and accounted for in the following observation. First let's start with the physical and motor development. Please say hello to Karligh and Bethany, my first volunteers of the observation. Both girls are in the four-year olds. The first activities under physical and motor development that I'm going to observe them performing are the large muscle/gross-motor skills. The large muscle/gross-motor skills include: climbing across the monkey bars, riding bigwheels (or tricycles), and running through a built-in obstacle course on the playground. Starting with the monkey bars, it's clearly obvious that Karligh is physically stronger upperbody-wise than Bethany. With surprising ease, Karligh crossed the monkey bars using nothing but her arms to perform this task. Bethany on the otherhand was shaky and uncertain from the start. After hanging from the first bar, she quickly swung her feet over to the side for leg support. She was able to cross but only with a great deal of assistance from me. Karligh also showed mastery in riding the big wheel. Her speed and turning ability seemed to surpass anyone else on the playground. Bethany chose to ride only after a piece of candy bribery. Her tricycle skills were somewhat sluggish but more or less average. However, once again Bethany was victorious. The last large muscle activity was completing the obstacle course. The obstacle course involved running up a slide, crawling through a tunnel, crossing a shaky bridge and then walking along a balance beam. Karligh ran up the slide with a considerable amount of effort. She quickly crawled through the tunnel and crossed the shaky bridge with little effort. She crossed the balance beam more quickly than I'd seen any child do that whole day. Bethany climbed up the slide in a time that was a bit quicker than Karligh's. The crawling through the tunnel was done quickly and she was first stalled on the shaky bridge. She managed to cross the bridge in a modest time but she hit some trouble at the balance beam. After slowly completing about ten percent of the travel across
...the pressure of those moments will follow me the rest of my life…When Kerri is making the final vault, I am thinking, One legged, no legged, just stay there. And bless her heart, she did it” (Jenkins 39). Kerri landed square, desperately trying to keep the weight off of her left foot. She hopped on one foot to acknowledge the judges and then collapsed in a heap of tears and frustration. The rest was a blur. America cheered as Bela carried her to the stand to receive her gold. There were so many emotions playing across her face as the national anthem played: pain, happiness, and a deep sadness because her injury would end her Olympic experience (Parillo n.pag). Kerri’s bravery acts as a symbol to all human beings. If a four foot ten, one hundred pound girl can carry the weight of an entire nation on only one ankle, then who’s to say that anything is impossible?
Azure watched the two of them leaping off the cliff. On an Ursa. Plummeting to the ground at mach speed.
military. She had been walking for three days trying to get a ride but had no luck. First she left behind her two suitcases and then the food she was carrying. After that she tried very hard to
Rachel found the stairway that will lead up, taking lead followed by Kat’s team, they ascending the stairs. She reached in her right pocket on her cargo pants, and pulled out a flash light. Turning it on she saw that the stairs were not fit to stand on let alone walking on. But she pushed out of mind that
I observed at St. Eve’s Learning Center location in their preschool room. The center has a naturalistic feel to the environment and all of the staff is friendly and welcoming. The classroom displayed best practices, modern theories and research, and followed expected standards set by their accreditations.
Early childhood is considered the most important developmental phase throughout the lifespan. In early childhood, the physical, cognitive, language and psychosocial domains of development are equally important (WHO). For these reasons, the observer would analyze normal growth and development of early childhood using various development theories in this observation paper. For observing the subject’s behaviors and social interaction with others, the observer went to one of Jewish friends’ house to have dinner in Passover holiday, is one of the best known Jewish holidays for seven-days. The house has two floors and grass garden. Almost 30 people attended at the celebration. Most people were family and friends. There were roughly 13 children stayed in the house with their parents. Most of children were 5 to 10-year-olds. For exploring growth and development in early childhood, the observer chose one of girl, is a six-years-olds, whose name is IL. The observer monitored her behavior for 5 hours before and after dinner, was able estimate IL’s age, height, weight, physical appearance, actions, verbalizations, emotions, type of play/activity and interaction with others. First of all, her physical appearances were observed that her height and weight seemed like 120-125cm and 20 kg. She looked like taller and skinner compared to other peers in that house. She did not have two upper front teeth. The observer assumed her level of physical development using by the growth chart. Following the curve in the chart, IL’s rate of growth is normal, and also her height and weight are in balance. Also, gross motor skills were observed during that time. In addition, when she was showing her magic to peers, she pretended as magician. During this time, t...
I opened my eyes and they focused immediately on all that space between me and the bottom of the drop. I wasn’t even half way down the drop an I felt the whole drop in my gut I enjoy the feeling so I like getting on them rides.Coming back up for another turn I look to my right and friend Olivia from school screaming as
Quickly I stumbled backwards out of the cave and practically fell down the rock pile. Standing up with scrapes everywhere and leaves in my hair, I started to run back
The ladder was extremely unstable it was starting to break. She knew she would have to get down fast or else the ladder would break and she would fall a long ways. ''If I go to
We tried calling and finally she answered and told me “ You didn’t listen to me know you have to figure it out know break a leg.” We kept on thinking what to do over and over again. We were stuck down on the tunnel and tried to climb up but it was to slippery. Then we tried to make go on top of each other to see if we could reach the top of the tunnel. That was a total fail we tried to think of more ideas but we ran out.
Sighing, he uncrossed his legs and slid forward, feeling the immense weight of them dangling there. It made him feel vulnerable, like it would be so easy for the monster from his dreams to appear suddenly and push him off. At the same time, however, it felt satisfying to be one of two people in the city crazy enough to be doing it.
The stairs feel wet and slippery from the leaking of the slide. Im so high up that I'm shivering. I can see the slide from where I'm in line now, and all I see is people enter the slide and then they're gone, if I were to chicken out now I wouldn't be the first. Many people walked back down the stairs but I know I won't be one of them. Looking at it, this slide makes all others look like absolutely nothing. Im now right next to the slide and it looks so frightening that I almost run down the stairs, but I don't. Now, it's my turn, and all that's left is for
The mother reported that the child would climbed out of his crib. She indicated that they placed him in toddler bed and then put a mattress in his room on the floor. The child kept leaving his room and coming into their room. She would walk him back and lie down next to him. She indicated that Mr. Katzoff wanted the child to be able to stay in their bed. They spoke to the pediatrician who recommended sleep trainers come and help them. The pediatrician told them it was ok for the child to cry. She indicated that Hudson learned that the parents had different views of where the child should sleep. He perceived the mother as the mean mommy, while the dad would want him to sleep with them.
At my previous college, it was required that we spent at least twenty hours with diverse students, more specifically those who had specialized needs. I was placed in Mrs. M’s class in a high school located in Reno County. This is where I had the opportunity to meet Jonah, who still to this day holds a special place in my heart. Jonah came from a less than perfect upbringing, he was the youngest of four children who lived in a small rundown trailer with their single mother who worked two jobs. He and his siblings went without a lot, had experienced a few foster homes and moved a lot. The other siblings dropped out, the sister just had a new baby, brothers in and out of correctional facilities, and Jonah seemed to be the forgotten child. I was not particularly happy with how the school system handled this sweet fifteen year old boy. From
Before taking this course I already had a prior knowledge on infant and toddler development being a child development and family relations major. I have worked hands on with children in this age range and from previous courses know a lot about their physical growth and development. I knew that baby’s had poorly developed muscles in the beginning stages of life, but I didn’t know how long it took to get the muscles to develop. When holding a child we were always taught to support the neck and never let it just flop around. It was interesting to find out that even though a baby might be able to lift its head at one month its neck muscles are not fully developed until three months. By the time a child reaches two years of age their baby fat will start to disappear and be replaced by muscle from their constant movement like running and jumping.