Early Childhood Development

Early Childhood Development

In this project, we were assigned to observe a preschool aged group and pick out one child to observe. I did my observing at Corner Stone Christian Academy and Preschool and observed a four-year-old name Kayla. She was a new student to that particular class, so I decided to see how she would react to a new environment. I will be discussing the motor skills, communication, and social interaction of Kayla. I will also briefly discuss the topic of the education that was being taught at the school I visited.

The motor skills of the student I observed were beyond my expectations. In the morning, the students enjoyed a breakfast of waffles and maple syrup, applesauce, and donuts. The students were all able to eat the donuts without getting frosting all over their mouth. And the waffles were dipped into the syrup with ease. There were some problems with the correct use of a spoon, but not enough that the applesauce would get all over the children.

The students did many songs and dances once in the class that helped with memorization and motor skills. Their first song and dance was about cooperating. I thought that this was a good way for the children to learn about sharing. The children need to learn about it because at their age, they tend to just want, want, want. They don’t realize the aspects of sharing and why you should do it. The next song that they sung was about “Marching in the Lord’s Army.” This school is a Christian school, so they wanted to teach the proper ideals of Christianity to the children. After that followed “If You’re Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands.” This of course teaches motor skills, eye hand coordination, and memorization and recall.

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... of the students for there good work. It was not like the classrooms that we discuss in class, that give credit no matter how good they do. They got stickers if they did it right. And if it was wrong, they redid it right then. There was even a treasure box that the students could get toys out of if they were really good.

I conclusion, I found this to be a very meaningful and insightful project. It taught me more about the kind of education that I need to be teaching my children when I have them. One thing that I wanted to mention is I never realized how much the teachers talked about the rowdy students before. Why they were in the chapel, the teachers would have conversations with each other about the different students misbehavior. The children didn’t pay attention to it, but I found it quite hilarious. Over all, I had a lot of fun doing this project.