Example Of Circle Time Observation

The two-year-old room is a lot of fun. A lot of the things we are seeing this week is that same as last week, so there is something to be said about structure. Circle time is a consistent aspect of every day, or at least every day we are there. I have noticed that sometimes the calendar on the board is behind a day or two. So at least while we are observing, the teacher is doing those circle time activities. I am not totally sure what to make of that observation. I hope it is a consistent thing she does with the children even when we are not there. There was a really great circle time activity this week. The theme was pirates that day. There was a great pirate book about letters the teacher read with the kids. After that, she had a large bucket of sand for the kids to dig in and find “buried treasure.” This was an inside activity, which I thought was a little bold. Even though she had a drop cloth down under the kids, there was still sand all over the place. Also, some of the things she buried in the sand were plastic mardi gras beads and such. They were fun, but the kids kept wanting to put them on which meant she had to keep telling them no the whole time so they wouldn’t end up covered in sand. A few of them did anyway. …show more content…
One of the young boys was riding a tricycle around. Around the outside edge of the playground there is a sidewalk, but the main middle area is a raised, black rubber type material. The boy was trying to get his tricycle up onto the middle area, bit it kept getting caught up on the back wheels. When watching him, I wondered how long he would persist on getting the tricycle where he wanted it to go. He kept taking the same approach over and over. Finally, he moved to a different angle and was able to get it up where he wanted it. He persisted a lot longer than I thought he