Observation week 10

Today's observation was okay. I think that I am just counting down the days until the semester is over. All of the children are just so adorable, they always find a way to grab my attention whenever I feel myself drifting away they do or say something that has me smiling and laughing on the inside. The children seemed to really be involved in the activities going on and working together as a group cooperatively. I think the teachers were engaging the students more than usual, but when it was getting close to lunch and the other teacher had to leave to prepare lunch. Some of the students were sneaking into the classroom and the teacher had to bring them out. Overall I think everyone enjoyed the day and it wasn't too cold. Oh yeah while I was outside observing some students from the other class begins to splash water off the table right in my path of where I was sitting. Lukily the water didnt sget me, I would've been cold, wet, and upset because I would've been freezing all day. Good thing their teacher came over and saved the day.

The activity that observed a student doing for the day was as follows: Student A is helping the teacher by taking down the chairs from the table. The teacher has a bag of diapers in her hand and the student says "my mommie bring me more diapers?", the teacher replys yes. She hands him his spare clothes to put in his cubbie and walks over and puts the clothes in the storage container. He returns to the class and walks over to a large chair in the large group area. He says " I want the horsey book" in a whining tone and repeats this. The teacher says "okay get the book" and she turns on the audio cassette of the story for student. He is sitting on the rug with the book open, looking at the page and then turning the page. He is not on course with the audio reading. He grabs a bunch of the pages together and the asks are you starting over? and he releases the pages. He releases the pages and it goes to the last page he was looking at and he says "look the horseys" as he gets up heads towards the dramatic/block area. He selects a toy horse from a basket and walks back over to where the book is and says "look they are the same." The teacher says "yes, its the same horse as in the book."

The skills that the teacher used in this activity were motor, cognitive, social, and language. An activity that I would plan to develop child's developmental skills would be having the child create a hand puppet of horses or other animals. An extension to this activity would be to read the horse book to the students or have them create their own horse story then act them  out.