Child Developmental Center Observation Essay

On Monday May 9th around 9:30am my group went to the child developmental center to observe pre-school age children. In order to understand how the adult mind is currently, you need to understand how their mind was raised from the beginning. As children age they reach certain milestones in their life that make an impact on how their brain will develop. Children will learn as they grow up by how they like to play. As the children play, you will understand more of how they learned certain schemas and which milestones they have achieved. There are many categories of which children’s playstyle will fall into like solitary, parallel, associative, or cooperative.
Solitary playstyle is when a child likes to play by themselves. It is the most common …show more content…
I saw more of this type of playing with the 2-3 year old age group. Preschoolers only tend to do this type of playing when they are shy, but also like to be around others. I saw a few examples of this at the child developmental center. One example would be, a few kids weren’t talking as they would play with blocks just sitting next to each other. Another example is, they would play in the sandbox building stuff with sand as they sat next to each other. There were other kids just sitting at the table, drawing or coloring sitting next to each other as well. Children will develop some cognitive abilities as they play near each other even when they aren’t exactly playing together.
Associative playstyle is almost just like parallel play except the children will share certain toys as they sit next to each other. There really isn’t much difference as the children play associatively. I saw the children sitting around with the blocks and a child wanted one of the blocks the other kid had and they exchanged for each block the other one wanted. Another group of kids would be doing arts and crafts, they would sit at the table using each other’s brushes and paints but still not really interacting with one