I observed at Nazareth child care center in Jamaica Plain. This is a Catholic charity that has many different locations in many different areas in Massachusetts. The location is set up by age group. There are 3 different classrooms. downstairs (infant, infant toddler, and the toddler room). The Preschool classrooms are upstairs. The preschool is funded through Boston Public Schools and there are 3 different classrooms separated by age. The center is I n a nice neighborhood. It 's middle class mostly, but many children in the daycare have vouchers through the government. The neighborhood has a couple of parks, a community center, and a library right down the street. Overall, the center is in a pretty nice area.
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Their circle is about 15 minutes long, but the children are free to roam the room and explore other choices. Even though this is the case, many children engage in circle time because it 's very fun for them. On the QUCCIT scale for language development, there are 4 different items that are rated: caregivers use of vocabulary, use of questions, conversational turn taking, and extending children 's language use. These can all be rated on a scale from 1-7. For this 10 minute observation I would give the caregiver a 4. This month, their theme is transportation. She did an awesome job naming objects for children. Every time she introduced a new mode of transportation, she introduced a new vocabulary word to them such as taxi, ship, boat, truck, train, etc. Even thought some of the kids new what they were, some did not. She also was very descriptive with the objects. Even though her vocabulary wasn 't extremely new to them, she used different descriptive words. She was talking about a fire truck and she used the words long, red, loud, etc. to describe the fire truck. She also used a new word to describe the truck which was ginormous. Something the kids never really hear. I give her a 4 for language because even though she did use some new words and descriptive language, she could 've used richer words and language. I would give her a 5. This is because she asked the children many different kinds of
There are currently 9 children …show more content…
Their circle is about 15 minutes long, but the children are free to roam the room and explore other choices. Even though this is the case, many children engage in circle time because it 's very fun for them. On the QUCCIT scale for language development, there are 4 different items that are rated: caregivers use of vocabulary, use of questions, conversational turn taking, and extending children 's language use. These can all be rated on a scale from 1-7. For this 10 minute observation I would give the caregiver a 4. This month, their theme is transportation. She did an awesome job naming objects for children. Every time she introduced a new mode of transportation, she introduced a new vocabulary word to them such as taxi, ship, boat, truck, train, etc. Even thought some of the kids new what they were, some did not. She also was very descriptive with the objects. Even though her vocabulary wasn 't extremely new to them, she used different descriptive words. She was talking about a fire truck and she used the words long, red, loud, etc. to describe the fire truck. She also used a new word to describe the truck which was ginormous. Something the kids never really hear. I give her a 4 for language because even though she did use some new words and descriptive language, she could 've used richer words and language. I would give her a 5. This is because she asked the children many different kinds of