Introduction
Child N weighs about 28 pounds and is 34 inches tall. Child N is a male child and is 3 years old. He is cute and chubby with brown hair and brown eyes. The observation took place at Discovery Preschool where my aunt's child is enrolled. I arrived there at 10 am on Thursday and completed my observation at 10.50 am. The child N was placed in a classroom with 10 other children at the ages of 3 to 4 years old and with two teachers. The classroom was decorated and the walls had creative posters, also with art projects. The classroom was divided into different areas of playing, storytelling, and eating. There were playgrounds for children to run freely and there were cars, swings, and toy houses for the children to play.
Observation
As I started to do my observation, child N’s social interaction was different than what I had observed within 45 minutes. At first, when he was introduced to me, he walked towards me and started to talk without any fear. His interactions with his teachers were simple and understanding. For example, if he wanted something he asked the teacher. Also when he went outside, he asked his teacher to push him on the swings. The cognitive development and language skill was shown during the observation. Child N was able to pull and push the car when it got stuck and he performed this task multiple times during the observation. Throughout the observation child N spent a great time watching other children play and he learned through his playmates what to do and what not to do. For example one of the children fell from the chair and immediately child N got off the chair. He was able to have conversations with only simple forms of sentences, such as “hungry” while pointing to his stomach. He also said “sit down”, or “fall”, when his playmates would stand on the chair on the table. While playing with the toys he made different sounds.For example “beep beep”, when he was playing with the car. Child N also observed and repeated the words his teachers would say, such as “play”, “eat”, and “outside”.
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The child's physical movement was also observed which was categorized as gross motor skill. Some of his physical movements were observed inside the classroom and some were observed outside in the playground. While we were inside child N was climbing the stairs and going down while making some noise. Also, there was a track for the cars which was tall and Child N started to play while sitting down. Then he couldn't move around so he started saying, “Move J J”, meaning that the teacher should move the track so that he could go somewhere else. When playing with the cars I also observed that whenever the car would get behind the basket, he would try his best to find it and if he wasn't able to find it, he would scream. He also played with toys that were in animal shapes such as butterflies, spiders, snakes, and others and he kept saying “ew”. While the children were inside the classroom, Child N was talkative and he only sat for 2 minutes and started to move around and play with his toys while others were sitting for a long time.
Then after 20 minutes, the children went to the playground, and child N was seen pulling and pushing the cars. When he was riding his bike he would use either his feet or the pedals to move himself forward and backward. He was climbing, sliding, and jumping around with his friends. At one point child N and the other three children started to run for a few minutes, in which child N was the second fastest runner. He was playing different games while other children played one or two games. He would watch his playmates and would go and play on his own. During the observation at the playground, one child fell off the swing, and immediately child N went to her and said “Ouch” while pointing to his knees. Child N’s fine motor skill was shown when the teacher gave all the children paper and crayons to draw. He was able to draw two people, which showed that his drawings were changing from scribblings to “first representation forms of drawing”.
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