Daycare Observation

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At “Don’t Worry Childcare”, the children and teachers are required to wash their hands during specific times of the day. Both the teachers and students are supposed to wash their hands after using the bathroom. They wash their hands before and after eating snacks and lunch. The teachers make the kids wash up after playing outdoors or leaving the classroom. Lastly, the children and teachers wash their hands after touching bodily fluid including, blood, snot, or spit. I have seen everyone wash their hands at those times. While washing their fingers and hands, I acknowledged the children have sung their ABC’s. They sung them loudly, and happily as if they enjoyed doing so. The teachers observed the children wash their hands to make certain each …show more content…

Standard four point four is about “using developmentally effective approaches to connect with children and families”, and element four says, “Reflecting on their own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child” (https://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ProfPrepStandards09.pdf). At the daycare, the teachers met both of those requirements. For instance, I examined the teacher encourage the children to sing their ABC’s so they wash their hands for the correct amount of time. She knew that each child needs the encouragement to be motivated to wash hands for the full forty-five seconds. The teachers sung the ABC’s while washing their hands to demonstrate how the children should wash their hands. They do that to model how to wash their hands properly. The teacher also makes sure each and every child wash their hands after toileting, and before and after eating. They said, “Okay class, now it is time to wash our hands!” Then the teacher went and washed their hands. NAEYC standard four, and its fourth key element were met …show more content…

I will enforce my students to follow the standards of washing their hands, after toileting, after direct contact with spit, blood, or snot, before and after eating, before preparing food, and lastly, before and after using the water, or sand table. I desire for my children to want to wash their hands and stay healthy, so I will constantly wash my hands and tell the children, “I am always going to wash my hands, so that way I can stay healthy. I understand that children learn easier through song, so to connect with the children, I will sing my made up handing washing song. My song sounds like the song, “If your happy and you know it clap your hand”, but it says, “when you’re done using the bathroom wash your hands, and before and after eating wash your hands.” I plan to help my children wash their hands correctly. I will teach them the four steps of washing hands through an image visual and hand motions. I plan to talk about germs and how they spread. I will then do art crafts that relate to the theme of hand washing. Those are some ways I will put forth my effort to instruct my kids about hand rinsing, while meeting the requirements of NAEYC standard four.
During observations, a few questions came to mind. For starters, I want to know if a childcare can lose its star ratings for not making the children wash their

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