Analysis Of Child Observation

The child I observed is a 5-year-old Caucasian boy. He has blonde hair and is about the same height and size of the other children in the preschool classroom. During the time I observed the children were engaged in self-selected activities that were set up around the room. The boy I watched spent his time engaging in play with a light table that was filled with knot sand and plastic bugs. The children used magnifying glasses to look at the materials that filled the table. The purpose of time sampling is to provide information about the behavior observed at regular intervals, over a specific period of time. Parten noticed 6 types of play that children engaged in, which are unoccupied, solitary, onlooker, parallel, associative, and cooperative