Child Center Observation

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The observation took place at the Triton College, Child Development Center, on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, from 9:30 am-10:30 am. Children being observed range from ages 3-5 years old. The classroom is led in a child center program promoting education through art and play. The girl in the pink sweatshirt is using building blocks stacking three on top of each other and sitting them side by side, creating a rectangular shape, she is speaking to the building blocks as she is putting them together. Boy in white and blue striped T-shirt takes one building block on his right hand and hits the rest of the building blocks, tumbling them down. Boy in black T-shirt is holding a crayon with his thumb and index finger, stroking it back …show more content…

He gets up and jumps up and down saying “ribbit ribbit”. He goes to the bathroom and comes back with wet pants, the assistant hands him a new pair of sweatpants to wear but he moves his head side to say, saying “no it has a hole”. Girl in white and blue sweatsuit sits next to teacher the majority of the observation period, she is holding crayons on her hands and gives them to the teacher when she asks for them. She gets up walks around the table and looks over the other children’s shoulder, she holds out one crayon with her right hand to a …show more content…

Children in this stage seek a reaction, when positive it will enforce the task completed, on the other hand if there is a negative reaction children will feel shame. Gender differences came into play when the girl in the blue sweater held the basket in her arms and used it as a purse to collect her toys, while the boy in in the beige sweater thought of it as a car. Both children used their imaginations and played with the basket according to their gender. Antisocial behavior was observed when the boy in the white stripped shirt knocked his classmates building blocks. The girl in the white and blue sweatsuit demonstrated signs of prosocial behavior, she sat by the teacher and handed the crayons the teacher needed. She also walked around the table and looked over her classmates work and offered a crayon to a

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