Childhood is the time in our lives when we are carefree and have the rest of our lives in front of us. It's the time when we learn most of life's lessons and our minds develop free of judgement, sponging up any and every experience as a dry canvas soaks up paint. The child in whom I chose to observe is a girl who is around the age of 6 and is just now really starting to discover the joys of life. Watching this innocent, bubbly, happy girl actually took me back to a time in my life I haven't reflected on in many years. It reminded me how amazing it was to have the rest of my life in front of me and how almost all experiences were brand new. My subject and her family were playing in the park down the road from my house on a beautiful spring …show more content…
Her smile produced two dimples and a gap between her two front teeth. She is very thin and almost a bit tall and lanky for her age. She had white Disney sneakers on that lit up when she would run, white and red spotted pants and a pink Minnie Mouse shirt. She played in the park with her parents without a care in the world, seemingly as happy as can be. Being that Sarah was about six years old, her brain is not yet developed enough to understand enough of the world but inexperienced enough that most everything and every experience is brand new to her. Her mind hasn't been exposed to many negative circumstances, from what I observed Sarah hadn't a bad thought in her mind the entire time. At this time or age the brain starts to process the world and store memories. It's the job of the parents to supply the child with good, wholesome, happy memories laying the foundation for a happy life. It made me happy that Sarah had a mother and father to help imprint good memories for her to carry with her through life. I believe it is so important for our youth to have as much time with both mother and father throughout childhood. Each child is born into different circumstances, some good some bad. Sarah has both male and female role models to learn from in preparing her for most of life's obstacles and therefore has quite the …show more content…
She went from being happy and carefree to being mopey, grumpy, and looking quite exhausted. Even though she was tired her urge to keep playing was quite strong. To me it wasn't just fun Sarah was after, her brain was craving development. Like a sponge her brain was soaking up every detail of playtime from fine tuning her motor skills, spending time with her parents, even enjoying nature as it was a perfect day. Nothing lasts forever, this within itself is one of the most important life lessons a child finds hard to grasp on to. Do you remember what it was like to want to play all day not ever wanting the fun to end? For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, we learn about Newton's third law very early in life. The only thing Sarah had to worry about while playing is playtime ending as the fun can't last forever. I even felt bad for Sarah, she was having so much fun, and I was really enjoying watching her as it brought back many childhood memories of my
In Patricia MacLachlan’s Sarah, Plain and Tall the narrative style is apparent. We know that it is the character Anna whose point of view this story is from. It is essential that it is told from her point of view, because the arrival of Sarah will ultimately affect her the most. We get a sense of the pain that she has undergone, as well as the over-whelming sense of love and pride she has for her family. As Anna explains, “…I didn’t tell him what I really thought. He was homely and plain, and he had a terrible holler and a horrid smell. But these were not the worst of him. Mama died the next morning. That was the worst thing about Caleb” (MacLachlan 4). It also reveals to us the tremendous amount of responsibility that is resting on her young shoulders.
After Sarah escapes the unsanitary camp with Rachel, the two run until they find a place of beauty. “In the late afternoon, they came to a forest, a long, cool stretch of green leafiness. It smelled sweet and humid….a mysterious emerald world dappled with golden sunlight….The water felt wonderful to her skin, a soothing, velvety caress. She wet her shaved head, where the hair had started to grow back, a golden fuzz” (Rosnay 99). This description places images in the mind of the reader that allow for the reader to experience this moment in the forest with Sarah. Vivid descriptions of places and events are more common within Sarah’s story, as she is experiencing the horrors of the war, allowing the reader to visualize the tragedy through the descriptions in a book. Soon after the arrest, Sarah and her family are thrown into the Velodrome d’hiver with other Jews, where a woman jumps from “the highest railing” with her child in hand: “From where the girl sat, she could see the dislocated body of the woman, the bloody skull of the child, sliced open like a ripe tomato” (Rosnay 33). This description captures the horrifying sight Sarah has just witnessed, darkening the mood and tone of the book alike to the depressing events that occurred within the
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
Sarah was the sixth child. Even at a young age she showed great independence and focused many of her efforts on justice. She was very intellectual and because of this, her father paid particular attention to her over the other children. He is said to have frequently declared “if she had been of the other sex she would have made the greatest jurist in the land” (Birney, 1970, p 8). Sarah was also very personable, empathetic and car...
A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s
At first she has difficulty comprehending Sarah's patience with a master who has sold off three of her children. Likewise, she observes that Isaac Greenwood "was like Sarah, holding himself back, not killing in spite of anger I could only imagine. A lifetime of conditioning could be overcome, but not easily."
My observation was an hour and fifteen minutes long. This is an at- home facility, she takes care of kids of all ages, day and night. She separated the children by age group, allowing infants/ young toddlers to be together and older toddlers to be with the bigger age kids. She has a room in her house designated for play. In the room, she has a painting station, a reading area, a doll house and kitchen station for play. I arrived when they were in play time. She explained to me that she allows the children to play 1 hour each day so that they can express their creative minds and so that they are cognitively
Despite the toll the job takes on her, Sara always sees the good things in life. This is due to two very loving parents, Sara claims. Sara refers to both of her parents as her main support system. They are also the people who have made the greatest influence on her life. “They have helped me through all of the hard times,” She told me proudly, “but they have shown me how to be a
I also added a picture of a sad face and a picture of a word bubble that says shhhhhh. I added those pictures because later in her life after being burned she thought her dad was going to abuse her more so she went to a hospital where she could stay safe from her dad. While she was at the hospital she didn’t talk and she was very sad and depressed, that’s why I added the pictures of the sad face and the word bubble. I also included the word brave and blond hair because Sarah was always pretty brave and stood up for herself like when Dale was being really mean to her. I think she started to be brave and stand up for herself after her dad abused her because she didn’t want o be treated like that ever again. I also added a picture of blondes hair because in the book it says Sarah has blond hair. I also put a picture of a newspaper because Sarah and Eric wrote mean things about people in their newspaper, crispy pork rinds, to make themselves feel better, since they were both considered
She even admits guilt when speaking to her father by saying, “Here I am, you daughter who knows what kind of father she’s got. What legacy you left her” (Grenville, 257). Although she knew that she never beat someone because of their skin color, and that she had on occasion defended Jack and others like him, Sarah also knew that had never made gallant efforts to ease the Aboriginals’ suffering. Sarah says that, “I hadn’t done it, no. Hadn’t lifted the gun…
Sarah tries hard in this relationship to overcome the obstacles and make a true friendship. Also in Little Bee, Sarah’s son, Charlie, always has a batman costume on and refuses to take it off. He wears this costume as a form of safety. Throughout the story, people try to make him take off this costume, but he will not do it. In the end of the story, there are soldiers there that are about to take Little Bee.
My hypothesis was to determine the effects of maternal presence versus absence on sibling behavior.
Children have a natural inclination to play, alongside a natural instinct to learn and to be curious and inventive, which are characteristics of the human race in general. This quote taken from Janet Moyles is a good starting point for this essay. It is well known that children love to play. If a child were to be left to his/her own devices they would happily play and create new worlds anywhere they were left. It has been well documented and researched that children learn excellently through play. However they are not always given the opportunity to do so, instead being told to, ‘finish your work and then you can go play’. Obviously this is not always the case, but the fact that it is a common practice shows that we do not all fully appreciate the importance of play to children’s learning. This essay will attempt to show how children learn through play, making reference to current theory and practice. I will also give examples from my own first-hand experience of how children learn and develop as people through play.
Observation is important as the practitioner can find out what the child is interested in and what motivates them to learn alongside their progress and how they behave in certain situations, additionally at the same time it identifies if children need assistance within certain areas of learning or socially (DCSF, 2008). Furthermore the observations check that the child is safe, contented, healthy and developing normally within the classroom or early years setting, over time the observations can be given to parents as they show a record of progress which helps to settle the parent and feel more comfortable about their child’s education. Observations are not only constructive within learning about an individual child, they can be used to see how different groups of children behave in the same situation and how adults communicate and deal with children’s behaviour (Meggitt and Walker, 2004). Overall observations should always look at the positives of what children can complete within education and not look at the negatives and all observations should become a fundamental part of all practitioners work alongside reflection (Smidt, 2009).
A very wise man; Charles Schaefer, once said “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” To begin with, there is no one explanation about what play really is, other than the fact that it holds infinite numbers of definitions according to every single individual. Play is just not a physical body movement involved in an activity, but more than that if you look outside of the box. For centuries, play has been practiced in its own unique way with not only children, but adults as well.