The UCF Creative School for Children sits well out of the way of UCF’s normally hustle and bustle. This was the first thing I took notice to, as the selected area in which the daycare actually is, is very important to its purpose. The primary goal of the daycare is to ensure the safety of younger children present at any time, but it is also a place of learning, I was informed, that the daycare takes the children outside for play time, so that they can get introduced to a world outside of just the simple daycare. This was explained to me in a brief introduction to the caretakers present in the toddler room, as they wished for me to select the place I felt most comfortable taking notes. However, the time the toddlers would be allowed outside was not until 10:00 AM, and so I instead opted just to
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Again I took note of the location of the building, it was far from the main arteries of the campus, which was a good things as it was so close to the street, yet did not have to deal with passing cars disrupting the children inside. Overall, during this period of the observation the two children did very little. Child A, as I noted was a bit more concise in his actions, for the first fifteen minutes I only noticed him playing with a truck he rolled to the ground. Child B, on the other hand, fit my early assumptions of what a typical toddler would be doing; what with high pitched yelps of broken words and rambunctious toddling around the play area. The two caretakers in the room towards the end of the first fifteen minutes mostly just kept an eye on the kids as they played. The most notable interaction between the two toddlers in this first fifteen minutes came towards the end of my observation; Child A was playing with a toy and playful slamming it against the ground when Child B came over and took the toy and proceeded to bang it on the
Again I took note of the location of the building, it was far from the main arteries of the campus, which was a good things as it was so close to the street, yet did not have to deal with passing cars disrupting the children inside. Overall, during this period of the observation the two children did very little. Child A, as I noted was a bit more concise in his actions, for the first fifteen minutes I only noticed him playing with a truck he rolled to the ground. Child B, on the other hand, fit my early assumptions of what a typical toddler would be doing; what with high pitched yelps of broken words and rambunctious toddling around the play area. The two caretakers in the room towards the end of the first fifteen minutes mostly just kept an eye on the kids as they played. The most notable interaction between the two toddlers in this first fifteen minutes came towards the end of my observation; Child A was playing with a toy and playful slamming it against the ground when Child B came over and took the toy and proceeded to bang it on the