Observation Of Observing A Child

Children are complicated beings and the development of each differs from one another. Observing a child is an amazing experience because we learn how children interact and perceive the world around them. In my observation, I will be observing my sister who is 3 years old. My observation was done over a 4-week period via facetime, where I could monitor and observe her without her knowing that I was there. I will be examining her cognitive, physical, language and social-emotional development. Alxyandra (Ally) Lynn Heller is 3 years old, she was born on April 8, 2013. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is about 2 ½ feet tall. She currently lives in Florida with my mother, step-dad, and 3 other sisters who vary in different ages and during school and work hours she stays with our grandmother who lives in the house next

As mentioned previously she stays there during the time my parents are at work. My grandmother only speaks Spanish with very minimal English, so when communicating with Ally, I noticed that she would speak to her in Spanish and Ally would reply to her in English. I found this odd because Ally doesn’t know how to speak the Spanish language but she has learned to understand what my grandmother was trying to say to her and reply with the correct responses. Now, I could evaluate her cognitive skills, as Jean Piaget believed, children naturally attempt to understand what they do not already know. His theory of cognitive development is broken down into 4 terms and each one is used during each stage of child development (schemas, adaptation, assimilation, accommodation). Each term revolves around how a child creates, modifies, and reorganizes new information that is given to them. This showed me that although she was unable to communicate with my grandmother in the language she was most comfortable with, she was still able to take in this new language and create her own way of