Physical Observation

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Januaray 20th I did an observation on a three and a five year old during self-deriected activites. I took notes on everything they said and did. Also i wrote down their physical appearences, physical ablities and how they were simalar and different from one another. I did this for an hour, thirty minutes per child. The first child was Layla a three year old little girl. Layla was short for her age and also still had some of her baby fat. She was not the best at talking, but she still did pretty good. When i first got there she was playing with a wand and a book. She would wave the wand over the book so the wand would make noise. Layla was trying to do different things with the wand to make it make nosie she tried shaking it, hitting the wand on the floor, and waving it over other objects. No matter where she what she did with the wand it would not make the facanting sound; so she took it across the book again. When it made the sound her face lit up and she continued to do it over and over again. After about eight minutes she decied she did not want to play with that annymore. Layla runs over to the kitchen set and grabs the spatula and starts to wave it around like she did with the wand. As she waves it back and forth she gets a puzzled expretion on her face. Once Layla realizes it is not going to produce sound she picks up the fack meat patty and puts it on the spatula. She balances the patty on the spatula as she walks over to the table to grab the plate. Once Layla had the plate she placed the patty on it. She walks back over to the kitchen set and puts it on the stove and then put the utincle on the rack.Layla picks up the plate and walks it back to the table for her teddy bear to eat. On her way over she drops the patty ... ... middle of paper ... ...ecause she did not really do any active playing. The physical apperence between the two were all so different Layla was short and still had some of her baby fat and zoe was tall and slim. This mostly has to do with her age. If zoe was three she probablly would still have her baby fat too. This observation was a great way to see hands on how the age and maturite level of a child can change everything. I have leared a number of things from this observation that i will remember when I take care of children. Most of the time when people talk to children they talk to them like they are little adults. When they do not listen we often yell at them and say, " what don't you under stand!".Most of the time they do not actually understand you. We have to start thinking about their age when we talk to them. A 3 year old is not going to under stand everything a 5 year old does.

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