Methods for Child Observation

Ms. Stephanie saw Miranda walking around squatting and crossing her legs and said “Miranda do you need to use the restroom I will hold your babies.” Miranda walked towards me and ignored Ms. Stephanie. I said “Miranda why don’t you go to the restroom and I will watch over your babies for you until you get back. I promise I will take really good care of them.” Miranda gave me her baby dolls and ran to the restroom where Ms. Alyssa helped her use the restroom. After Miranda came out of the restroom she washed her hands and then ran over to me to get her babies. I said “Here they are Miranda I kept them nice and safe.” Miranda said “Thank you!” I played with Siba and baby for a while longer. I put baby on an airplane and pretended to fly the puppy around Siba giggled. Ms. Alyssa told the children that it was time to get back on the circle time carpet so that they could read a book and pick the line leader for that day. Ms. Alyssa asked me if I would read the children a story before going outside. I read two books to the children both were about insects and the last book was called Mr. Bumble. After reading the two books Chase got picked as line leader for the

Emily then ran to the slides and went down the slides with her legs extended and closed together a few times. When going into the classroom the teacher passed out wipes for the kids to clean their hands and Emily properly wipes her hand off and threw the wipe in the trash. After cleaning her hands Emily went to sit down when snacks were being passed around she asked the teacher “I want raisins, can I have a lot of raisins”. When eating her snacks Emily grabbed the raisins using her pin grip form and ate her snack. Emily interacted with her classmates and they talked about their snacks by saying “you still have a lot”, “you have a lot of raisins”. After snack time the teacher passed out a picture of a chicken where the kids had to trace it to complete the chicken body. When the teacher told the kids to pick a dark color to trace the picture of the chicken, Emily picked up the color red violet by using her right hand index and thumb together and said, “mine is dark”. With her right hand Emily then held her crayon in pin grip form and with her left hand she rotated her picture and traced the chicken

An individual can always learn new aspects of life when they are observing an infant. This observation took place in the home of the participant. The participant is familiar with the house. During the observation the child played with her toys in the living room. The participant was a 12-month-old girl who is cared for by both her mother and father. Other participant included the child's mother and the child's aunt. The mother is a teacher, so during this observation and in the summer, they both stay at home. The participant is the only child in the household. After an afternoon nap and snack, the child sat in her mother's lap on the couch in the living room. While she was with her mother, she stayed close to her mother and made eye contact with everyone in the room. The child then got down and played with her toys in the floor of the living room. She began with the toy closest to her and began pushing the buttons while singing along with the different rhythms. The next toy she found was a child's magazine and she quickly flipped through the pages and found pictures of other infants similar to her. After a quick look around the room, she proceeded to crawl over to the nearest shelf in the living room. She began to pull her self up to a standing position and began pulling items off of the shelf and putting them on the floor. The mother quickly diverted her attention by

Stacy don’t open the door." Timmy whispered in a frightened voice. "I won't sweetheart I wont." As I pushed my back against the wall broken glass had splattered above my head and all over me. As soon as I felt the strange man grabbing my hair I stood up, away from the dangerous guy. "What do you want? Don’t hurt these innocent children!" As I yelled in a tone that I had never yelled in before, the threatening man opened the door. As soon as I noticed he had opened the door I stood in front of the children's desk with my hands held apart one to the left, as one to the right. "Please stop!" I yelled in a frightened voice. "Move out the way lady!" As the perilous man pushed me to the side he picked up the desk. Sarah still curled up in a ball. I noticed him picking her up. "Mrs. Stacy please don’t let him take me! Stop I don’t like you dad!" I was in shocked to hear Sarah's words coming out of her mouth. "Don’t come near me lady!" As Sarah's dad was about to leave the room I threw a chair at her dad's back. "Put her down I said!" As I shouted to him, he had left me unconscious there sitting on the

One hot friday afternoon Jamal and Jonathon got off the bus from a long day of school.Jonathon was staying the night at Jamal’s house.They walked down the street to Jamal’s house.But one thing about it is Jamal forgot to do the dishes this morning which it one of his chores he calls a job.They finally got to Jamal’s house after a long hot walk.But as soon as they walked threw the door all you could hear was Jamal’s mother yelling like somebody had died saying“you knew you had to do the dishes now go do them”!Jamal and Jonathon went into Jamal’s room and put there bookbagas down then went straight into the kitchen.As Jamal and Jonathon walked to the kitchen Jamal thougtht of a plan to get Jonathon to do his work for him because he really didnt want to wash dishes.

For our child observation project, we interacted with a seven year old boy named Nolan.

The next day at school Maria had a pencil with kitties and stars on it. Jawanna wanted to use Maria pencil so she gave it to her and she told Jawanna to give it back at the end of the day. When the end of the day came Maria asked for her pencil back and Jawanna said “your pencil

The paramedics rushed over to Angelica, checked her pulse, the paramedic said, “She has no pulse, we have to get her to the nearest hospital quick.” Marie started crying and screaming, “Oh my God, Oh my God, Please, help my baby.” Aunt Lori held Marie. As they were working with Angelica, Aunt Lori rushed to the phone and called David and Simone to tell them to meet them at the hospital. After hanging up, the paramedics rushed Angelica out the door, Marie rode in the ambulance with them. Aunt Lori rushed out behind them following the ambulance. When they made it to the hospital, they rushed Angelica inside, were there was Doctors waiting. As they rushed Angelica to the back, Marie tried to follow them, but one of the paramedics stopped her and said, “Maam, she’s in good hands, I’m sorry, but you can’t go back there.” “That’s my daughter.” said Marie. “Maam, I’m sorry, but you can’t.” said the paramedic. Marie walked off, headed to the waiting area, she was still crying. When she got to the waiting area, Aunt Lori rushed to her side. “What did they say?” ask Aunt Lori. “They told me that I can’t go back there.” said Marie. As they were talking, Simone and David rushed in. “Mom, What happened?” ask Simone. “I don’t know.” cried Marie. “Mom, come sit down.” said David. Marie kept crying. “It’s going to be alright, Angelica will be just fine.” said David. “Aunt Lori what happened?” ask Simone. “We were all asleep, then Angelica started screaming, she was crying and complaining about her head, she said that her head was hurting real bad, so Marie went and got a warm towel and placed it on her forehead, but she was still in pain, so I called the ambulance, when they arrived Marie and I rushed to the door to let them in and when they rushed to the back, they said Angelica had no pulse.” “Oh my God.” said Simone. “Have the Doctor or anyone spoken to you?” ask David. “No, just before you both arrived, they rushed her in the back.” said Marie. They all sat and

The headmistress no longer had to wonder from where young Miss Charlotte had received her attitude problem. She readjusted herself in her chair and cleared her throat. “At any rate, I’m glad to finally see that Mr. Smith had decided to participate in his children’s education. I see Ms. Tyler fairly often for various offenses, but this is the first time all of your children have been disruptive in the same day,” she directed at Mr. Smith.

Upon entering the classroom, Deyonnah was sitting at the table eating popcorn. She had a doll and a pair of stethoscopes on the table next to her popcorn. Deyonnah got up, ran to the toy bin and brought a camera to the table. She sat back down in her seat and continued to eat her popcorn. Ms. Piedad walked over to Deyonnah and pushed her chair closer to the table. One of the students shouted, “I’m going to blocks!” Another student repeated, “I’m going to blocks too.” Both students got up and ran to the block center. Deyonnah jumped out of her chair and ran to the cabinet and grabbed the whisper phone. Ms. Piedad removed the whisper phone and redirected Deyonnah back to the table to finish eating her popcorn. Deyonnah began to cry and scream.

Ida drew a crab with a chalk on the playground and said"his name is sidestep and I saw it at Hamilton beach."

Tallulah and I were at the fuel airport. It was the littlest airport. It was night so it was hard to see there. We are going to go pick up orphans from Africa. We are flying over the Atlantic ocean. “Talulah are you ready to go,” Lizzie said. “Let's go Lizzie.” Said Talulah. We are 30 min away. 30 min went by. We are landing. And the kids are waiting for us at the airport. I said to Talulah, “are you ready to get the kids.” “Yes”, said Talulah. We get the kids on the plane. We want back of the plane and asks for the kids names. Most of them did not talk. Bet there was these two girls that answered me one was Linda and the other was Koko. So we want back up to the front of the plane. And I said to Talulah “ready for taking off.” “Ready”, said

For my Child observation, I did a little girl named Bryntlie. Bryntlie has an older sister, along with a mom and dad. Bryantlie doesn’t have a cat or a dog, but she loves her cows. She said she has a hundred black ones. When I asked her what her favorite food was, she didn’t even hesitate, she smiled and said, “cheese pizza”, and she eats it every night. Bryntlie likes to play Barbie’s with her sister and her favorite color is light blue like the sky. She explained to me that she has a huge 6-foot doll house and she has a smaller one too. She went into detail about her doll house, it has 3 rooms, a bathroom, kitchen and a huge porch. Bryntlie loves to read, her favorite book is Brown Bear Brown Bear. She said her mother reads her the story every night before she goes to bed. Her favorite character in the story is the fish, because she likes to swim. Her favorite song is Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star, she said she likes the song because she likes watching the stars at night. Bryntlie was telling me a story about how her sister and herself went to help dad feed the cows. Big sister got in the fence with the cows to go pet the baby calf and got chased by the momma cow. But she went on to explain to me that it wasn’t the momma cows fault because she was trying to protect her baby. Bryntlie likes to drawl. If you set a piece of paper down in front of her, she will write her name really big on the right-hand side and then begins to draw. She mostly drawls flowers, hearts and

She showed the teacher her own report, and the teacher did not know who to believe. But at the end of the day, somehow the teacher believed the nice one over the smart one, the small, smart girl started boll and ran out the class. That was the last time that the small smart girl was seen. But later on that day Cynethia got a huge knock on the door, her mom opened up the door and BOOM!! It was the little smart girl, and two other girls that wanted to fight her. Cynethias mom politely said”do you guys need anything” ,The small smart one shouted”we want to fight your daughter”, then that's when Cynethias mom firmly said” y'all can fight her one on one but you guys will not jump her, and I will be right there to make sure of it. Then they backed off because they know they wouldn't win. Cynethias mom asked what was going on but just like she did with the assignment, she lied and said”I don't know and her mom didn't say nothing, all she did was just walked away. Then the next day had come, in the middle of school they called the smart little girl, and Cynethia down to the office rewrite the assignment, and when they were done, guess who got caught

Rachel and Sammy were having a very fine day. Thier mom let them play until supper. The two were racing through the woods to their treehouse. Rachel and Sammy told secrets and played games. They were getting very hit and decided to get a drink from the river. While the two were drinking, Rachel got off balance and fell in. Sammy tried to save her but also fell in. Since sloths can't swim they both tried to stay above water on their journey down the river away from home.