Describe I observed one child from the infant age group, E, and another child from the young toddler age group, A. I observed these children at a daycare center in Bowling Green, OH. The center is a little outdated for my likely because of the age of the building, but the center has been around for a long time. This center accommodates children from six weeks old to kindergarten. I work at this daycare several days a week so doing observations was very easy for me because I personally knew these children. They room is decorated with bright green walls and carpeted floors. The infant and the young toddler room are enclosed in one room but divided by a short door. The infant room is set up much smaller than the young toddler room. The infant room has a maximum of eleven infants …show more content…
The infant room is for children ages six weeks to one-year-old. Young toddler is for children one year to two and a half years old. I observed an eight month old, E, who is able to crawl to access all of the spaces, even the small ones, in the room. She will crawl behind chairs and crawl up to sleeping babies to wake them up. E is a very lively child; she interacts well with caregivers but is a little rough with the other children in the room. Since I was not just an observer and actually a caregiver to E it was a bit hard to only observe and not interact. Most of my observations included me and not just watching what she was doing. I felt I did observations on good days because each day was different and not all just the same daily routine that we do. I also observed a child in the young toddler room, A. A started in the infant room when he first came to this daycare center and has now transitioned to the young toddler room. A has a different personality in the infant room than in the young toddler room. A is now thirteen months and runs around the entire room. Child A does not play with the other students very much. Most of the other children can talk and communicate while A is still
For the younger age group, I observed a 6-month-old, boy infant, called Manden, in my friend’s home.
whether the children would be able to associate the smaller room with the larger one, thus utilizing
The daycare that I visited was Rosemont Daycare and Preschool. This center is faith based and I was able observe the “Duck Class” which was the age group of four and five year olds. I went to observe on February 11th and 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 and the 18th from 3:00 to 6:00. On the 11th and 16th, there were a total of 12 children in the Duck class. At 9:00 the children were engaged in circle time meaning that the children were learning about their bible verse for that month which was “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.” The children then discussed what they thought that meant. On the 11th I was present to see the children, the ones I decided to observe were Kali, Roslyn, Fiona, and Brayden. When the children were doing crafts I sat near the counter island in the class room so I was out of the way but still able to see and hear what the kids were doing and saying at the table.
The Child Development Center of College of San Mateo provides early care and educational programs for children between the ages of 3 to 5 years old. Children are divided into classrooms with a “master” teacher, a “regular” teacher, and two or three “associate” teachers. Klara attended Classroom, “A,” a stimulating and well-resourced classroom. Klara was observed for two hours on Monday from 9 am to 11 am and for two hours on Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am. During these two hours, classroom activities consisted of “free time,” “story time,” and an outside “play time.” A “master” teacher, a “regular” teacher, and two “associate” teachers were present during observations. Additionally, a total of eighteen children were in attendance during the observed days.
I was not expecting both children I observed to be so quiet and independent, which through me off guard at first because I used to have an assumption that all children are social butterflies because they like to play. As I have learned, development from physical, cognitive, to social goes far beyond the outward actions. According to Piaget cognitive development is integrated into each stage as an individual ages. Erikson proposes that psychosocial development progresses through the lifespan (Baek, HDFS 102XW notes, 2016, Fall). I notice that neither boy actively participated in pretend play, a highlight in the preoperational period, nor were they ‘rough and
Toddlers are the epitome of curiosity and energy. From ages 1 – 3, toddlers are always on the go and want to learn about everything in their world. As with infants, no two are alike; each toddler is unique in his or her developmental stages, and each accomplishes milestones at different times. “Although children develop at different rates, there are common stages of development that serve as guidelines for what most children can do by a certain age” (Groark, McCarthy & Kirk, 2014). As seen in the hatfieldmomof3 (2011) video, one observes toddlers at play and can determine the age of the toddlers by their actions and the milestones they have accomplished.
On February 15th, a fifteen-minute observation was conducted in the toddler room of the Buffalo State Child Care Center. For this observation, my subject was a child named Tommy
The child I observed was born on February 21st, so the baby that I observed is just weeks old. The baby is white and a male. The baby is a friend’s child and I observed him in the living room of their home and in his personal bedroom while he was in his crib. There was two couches in the living room, a television, two end tables, and a big sectional rug which was where the child was most of the time. There was 4 adults. The mom, the dad, my mom, and I. There were no other children in the house at this time.
In my study I only observed a mixed sex pair of siblings. Where the sister was older than her brother. The mother and the two siblings were observed in the family's home, in their living room, instead of a playroom laboratory. I started the observation at 5:00 PM. Five minutes before I started my study I explained to the mother that she would have to interact with the children for almost an hour. Then I told her that she would have to leave the room for around the same time, so that the children may interact without her presence. I also explained that after the children were done playing together alone that she would have to come back and ask them to put their toys away. This was the order that the activities were executed and my observation was completed by 7:00 PM. I recorded all of their actions by keeping written notes. I had the mother's permission to record their activities. The mother was only aware of this, the children did not know that they were being observed.
When I thought of observing the children that attend my mothers daycare I decided that I should observe the interactions betwe...
I gave birth to a healthy, beautiful baby girl named Luna. Jeffrey has taken quite a liking to being a big brother. He likes to hold and rocker her and helps with feeding her. Jeffrey is still a slow-to warm child. He can communicate fairly well and is now using mostly complete sentences and seems to understand most of what I say. He occasionally makes errors of overregularization. He has taken an interest in music and singsongs even though he usually repeats a certain part a lot. I encourage this by taking him to local performances of children’s musicals. Jeffrey has learned the routines pretty well and is reasonably cooperative for his age. He is rarely aggressive to adults or other children. Jeffrey’s fantasy play has become more elaborate and sometimes includes superheroes or cartoon
An observation was conducted between the mother and child in the evaluator’s office. The child had difficult sitting in her seat. She continued to kick her legs at time. She was often unresponsive to her mother.
Four young girls that I babysit for, Mackenzie, Maggie, Meredith and Morgan, are sisters of varying ages and developmental levels. Mackenzie is eight years old, Maggie is six years old, Meredith is three years old and Morgan is sixteen months old. Each girl is at a different stage in cognitive, physical, mental, social and emotional development. I have babysat for the girls for four years now and was able to watch them grow and change in many different ways. Since they are from the same family, I was also able to see how nature and nurture played into their development. Different ages of children will be at a different stage of development and the four Weaver girls display it the different stages.
The child that I selected to observe through the course of this semester is a Caucasian female. Her name is “R.” She was born on April 24, 2013. She is currently 10 months old, but will be turning one year old at the end of the semester. “R” is a child who is very active. She has an independent but outgoing personality. At this stage, she exhibits uncertainty with strangers and other people she recalls but has not physically seen in a period of time. Some of “R”'s favorite activities include tossing objects, mirroring actions and movements, music, a...
Classroom Observation On two different days, several observations took place in two different types of environment. I observed a teacher and her students of a second grade elementary school and a teacher and her students aged 18 months to two years old in a daycare environment. I observed the environment and interaction of the teacher and his or her students. Although both are learning environments, they have some similarities and some differences.