Middle Childhood Observation Report

Most of the kids by the first five minutes of this observational period finished and cleaned up their table. Seeing such a drastic that seems to come from about 4 to 6 is amazing, unlike the preschoolers and toddlers the middle childhood kids have begun to take on more responsibility for their actions and are actually able to contribute to the world around them. For example, one of the kids needed a napkin, and rather than just asking a caregiver to get it, they got up and retrieved the napkin. Understandably, this is nothing special and in all honesty I may be finding such meaningless task a bit too exciting, but simply put, the change that can be noticed each age group and with such a large change from the preschoolers observed before it is just amazing to think about how much …show more content…
The girls did not go to get anything out of the cabinet and instead continued to talk, but the boys, now playing games became silence. The game they played was “Minecraft”, which more or less is a building game much like Legos, but instead of making a mess one would have to clean up. The boys may not have talked as much, but as I observed the cooperation between them seemed to be working, I understand the game so I was able to spot when the kids were messing up or doing something that in now way helped the group’s effort. Much like Legos, the game is all about building, and from what I saw, the boys were attempting to build a little town. Again, despite the lack of verbal conversation the project seemed to move fairly well; with this said, I did wish to see how the boys would have faired actually playing a game outside of the virtual