Classroom Observation

Setting: I am still sitting on the bench about 5 feet away from the playground structures where the children are playing. There is currently a group of two boys and three girls playing together. They are all ranging from age 6 to 10 years old. More children have walked up and join the playground as some of the surrounding soccer games are ending. There are about 20 children playing at the playground. In the group of children playing there is now 10 of the 20 kids playing with them. The rest of the children are dispersed onto the rest of playground. There are about two other small groups with two children each playing together. The remaining children are playing by themselves. The group of children that include the boy with the blue shirt are …show more content…
She is afraid she is going to fall and get hurt. The boy with the blue shirt and some of the other children start pressuring her to just climb up and do it. Alter about a minute of yelling at her to go, the boy with the blue shirt says, “Fine don’t you crybaby” he then crawls up and takes her turn for her. After he gets don’t, the girl, who has a butterfly shirt, decides to walk up the plank and climb into the structure. As she gets to the top, she stops because she does not know how to get through the hole. She figures out how to get into it, because the children below are yelling at her. When she stands up at the top she sees her dad who has come to get her from the playground. He sees her at the top of the Funnel Ball structure and yells at her to come down. The girl with the butter fly shirt then looks down and starts to panic. She cannot figure out how to get down so she starts crying. I think she begins crying because she did not want to be up on the structure, she is going to get in trouble, and she cannot get down. Her father then tells her to sit down and slide through the hole so he can catch her. It takes her a minute to listen and follows those directions because he is still