Observation On Caryville

A bright sunny, humid day in Caryville, Tennessee at Cove Lake State Park, children are running, sliding, climbing, and screaming. When you approach the playground, there are swings where two three year old twin girls are hollering at their daddy to push them higher. To the left of them are swings where handicap kids can enjoy the breeze and laughter too. The winding slide seems to be a lot of children’s favorite; the other three regular slides do not seem to have many kids in line for them. Little girls around four and five years old, drops a stuffed baby doll down the fire pole acting like it was a fireman. Three boys (four to six years of age) used the rock wall instead of the bridges to get onto the platform because the rock wall represented a mountain and the bridge hovered over an alligator infested swamp. Also, I took my little cousin with autism whom is ten to the playground, I thought he would enjoy playing with other kids. …show more content…
Each girl took turns dropping a stuffed baby doll down the fire pole and when the boys wanted to go down the pole the girls stepped back. The girls were more respectful to the boys than the boys was to them. The girls playing with the stuffed doll would be considered under the category of cooperative play. Although the girls are considered cooperative play, the boy’s would represent the rough-and-tumble play because they play a lot rougher than these little girls did. My little cousin, Chase, would be associated with the play called solitary play based on his autism. I observed the playground for at least an hour on September 26, 2015. This observation was a great way to observe how children react at a