Observation of Child at Play Essay

Play is so important because it helps with peers’ sociability where they are three stages in play they are parallel, associative, and cooperative play. Parallel play is a child's play there other children with similar materials but does not try to influence their behavior whereas the other two are the true forms of social interaction. Associate play children engage in a separate activities but exchange toys and comment on one another's behavior and cooperative play is a more advanced one where children oriented towards a common goal such as acting out or make believe. For example, preschoolers seem to use power display as a way situation and from the demand of complex social interaction and a crossroad to new activities. Play helps to increase…

The next child study paragraph is Social/Emotional skills and they include different skills a 3-year-old should be able to complete. When the teacher reads a story and the child or children will attend the story more than 10 minutes and listen and enjoy the story and they're listing and not distracted by other things in the room. For example, while observing the child I have is Charlotte. On February 13th, her teacher, Mrs.Wade was reading a story to the preschoolers. She was listed and not…

This observation will focus on the child/child interactions of the Junior Preschool Room. This school is Pasadena City College Child Development Center and has students ages four-months-old to five-years-old. Within the Junior Preschool room, the teachers and assistant teachers there was Ms. Erika(assistant), Mr. Francisco(assistant), Ms. Nimfa, Mrs. Marisol (specialist teacher), Mrs. Erica(assistant), and Mrs. Oswald. During the time of the observation were 14 children in the classroom. The…

For the observations conducted, I am basing them off Parten’s study of children’s play. In this study, children were viewed for one minute each day and “each time they were observed, their degree of social participation was characterized” (Bateman and Goodman) using Parten’s six levels of social participation. The participants of these observations interacted differently based on what kind of play they engaged in and their age showcased the difference in play in which the participants became…

Throughout the observations I noticed there was a relatively even amount of information regarding the four developmental domains: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. The first instance of physical development was in observation two when children were playing outside. Children were climbing the playground and running around in the play area. Children should be encouraged to run around while outside, if they aren’t then children are antsy in times when they need to be quiet and still.…

Narrative observation Narrative observation is also called free because you have to write everything in detailed that you see a child doing. As it’s going to help you to have clear focus of the observation so next time you can choose an appropriate activity for the child to observe for example if you want to find out about how well a child gets on with others, you need to observe the child in a activity with a group of children. When you do narrative observation you should observe the child for…

case study reflecting on observations of children’s schematic interests. In the paper I will be discussing the history and theories of schemas. I will include observations on a child’s schematic interests and my role as the practitioner. A Schema is a pattern of repeatable behaviour into which experiences are assimilated and that are gradually coordinated. (Athey, 1990:37) Children’s patterns are influenced through their genetically pre-determined biological development and the socio-cultural…

skills, perceptions and attitudes of the child is paramount when gaining an understanding of the developmental levels (EE, 2012), thus enabling the pedagogy to plan and provide a stimulating environment within which the individual child can learn. To obtain such information Howe & Davies (2010) concurred by Bradley et al (2011) refer to the Montessori theory highlighting the importance of observing the child in a variety of naturalistic situations, whether it be teacher-directed or child-led to…

Brian (a pseudonym) is a young child in the group of early childhood (3-5 years) in the daycare located in the Psychology building. He seems to be of Hispanic background and speaks English. He has nice clothing which suggests he is from a nice home with a family that provides clothing and food normally. He always seemed to be smiling even when not talking proposing that he is a relatively happy child. He spent most of the observation running around which brought me to the conclusion that he…

During the semester I have done my observation in the Community Plaza Center in Boyle Heights. In this center they provide the community with preschool, head start, and is recently implanting an infancy program for the community. The child I have decided to focused in is a student in the preschool program, she is four-year-old Irene. The class room has grown with new students in comparison to the first observation. The class now consists of sixteen students, eight boys and eight girls, in the…