Observation Of Emotional Development

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Introduction I observed a child for 30 minutes and wrote down everything I saw and heard. The child was two years old and a female. She had tan skin, brown eyes, dark curly hair that she wore in pig tails. She wore a white sparkly shirt that had the minions from Despicable Me on it, jeans, and black boots. She was around family including her mother, father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, and many cousins. Everybody in the room was in a good mood and interacted with her when she interacted with them.
Social Emotional Development She played a lot by herself but she also played a little with her grand-mother. She seemed to be mostly happy because she danced and sang around and she was mostly smiling and she laughed a lot. She doesn’t seem very tempered, she did not throw a temper tantrum while I observed. She seemed to listen and be well behaved, she listened to her
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I could clearly understand her when she talked or asked for something .She clearly understood her mother when she told her to clean up her toys. But when she was singing the words that were coming out of her mouth were not understandable it sounded like she was just making up random sounds. When she asked for something she used language like when she asked for a hot dog.
Physical/Motor Development
She is able to Dance which is the use of lager body parts that shows the development of gross motor skills she also runs which is also the use of gross motor skills. She jumps around which shows the use of complex- motor skills which is usually seen in children near three or four. She points and moves the dolls hands which is fine motor skills. The child is ambulatory she shows this by walking around and running. She seems to use her senses when she is playing like hearing when her mother is talking to her or sight when being tuned into the bright colored cartoons.

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