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As I was watching the video that was provided to us, I noticed three boys that were playing on a slide. All of them looked about the same age, one of the boys wondered off and went to another area of the classroom to play. He then saw a little girl playing with cars, so he joined. She then left, and he played by himself. Then this same boy sees another boy playing with a container of bugs, so he joins. He plays with him momentarily then the boy leaves and the main boy is by himself again. Then the boy heads over to play with a play structure that another boy is playing with; he plays with this boy for the rest of the video until the last few seconds, which then he is interested in what the teacher is doing with the camera. Toddler years …show more content…
Nick is seen in the video in various categories of social participation such as unoccupied behavior, solitary play, and parallel activity. However, Nick is mainly seen involved in the parallel activity. According to Groark, McCarthy, &Kirk (2014), parallel activity is when a child plays independently besides another child, but not with the other child and typically the child plays with a similar toy or activity as the other child playing beside them (Sec. 6.5).Nick is picking up on how other children are playing with different toys and activities and learning new skills by doing so. Significant transformations begin to take place in the domain of cognitive development of cognitive development during toddlerhood. At this age, children can follow simple directions, like “go to the table” or “put down the toy.” Scaffolding is also an important practice for caregivers as toddlers develop in the cognitive domain. And as for fine motor skills, you can tell he is on point with his because he can work the toys and play with them how they are supposed to. When it comes to using gross motor skills things like walking, jumping, and running — your little dynamo probably doesn 't need much encouragement. But it 's equally important that kids work on their fine motor skills small, precise thumb, finger, hand, and wrist movements because they support a host of other vital physical and mental skills. "Stacking blocks, for instance, involves not just picking up the blocks, but knowing what to do with them and planning out the action," says Gay Girolami, a physical therapist and executive director of the Pathways Awareness Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Chicago that focuses on physical development (BabyCenter & BabyCenter,

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