Case Study
Reflection Paper
This semester I was able to do a case study on a 5 year old girl named Bentley. The study lasted for about 5 weeks and I enjoyed every piece of it. My goals going into this case study was to understand how Bentley grows, her developmental milestones, and how she recognizes and responds to her everyday life. Some of the benefits of what I saw were some of her strength and weakness
I learned a lot about Bentley’s physical development. Bentley loves to play outside with her friends, loves to ride her bike, play with her play dough, and draw pictures. This is great because these are some of the key gross/fine motors skills that she should have right now. Bentley’s self-help skills are on track as well. She can brush her teeth, tie her shoes and get herself dressed in the morning. Plus help her daddy with her younger siblings.
Bentley is going in to the first grade in the fall. Her language and literacy development is right on track. She can write, read and spell her name. She is reading on a level 1 reading level. She knows all of her sight words like go, come, mom, dad, and sit, run. Bentley loves to make up stories about lady bugs and princesses. In her house her mother is really big on use grammar correctly so her speech was excellent for a 5 year old. Some time I had to remember that she is 5 when we talked. Right now Bentley is in the preoperational Stage of the Piaget four stages of Cognitive development theory. Although she can read and make up stories she has a hard time telling me what happens at the beginning of them. She thinks that if you pour the same amount of water in a flat container and a tall container, the tall one has more water in it.
Bentley’s social and emotional development is on the right track. In Erik Erikson’s stage of psychosocial development Bentley is in the third stage called Initiative vs. Guilt. She shows sense of Initiative. Bentley loves to help out around the house. She asks a lot of questions all the time
This semester I was able to do a case study on a 5 year old girl named Bentley. The study lasted for about 5 weeks and I enjoyed every piece of it. My goals going into this case study was to understand how Bentley grows, her developmental milestones, and how she recognizes and responds to her everyday life. Some of the benefits of what I saw were some of her strength and weakness
I learned a lot about Bentley’s physical development. Bentley loves to play outside with her friends, loves to ride her bike, play with her play dough, and draw pictures. This is great because these are some of the key gross/fine motors skills that she should have right now. Bentley’s self-help skills are on track as well. She can brush her teeth, tie her shoes and get herself dressed in the morning. Plus help her daddy with her younger siblings.
Bentley is going in to the first grade in the fall. Her language and literacy development is right on track. She can write, read and spell her name. She is reading on a level 1 reading level. She knows all of her sight words like go, come, mom, dad, and sit, run. Bentley loves to make up stories about lady bugs and princesses. In her house her mother is really big on use grammar correctly so her speech was excellent for a 5 year old. Some time I had to remember that she is 5 when we talked. Right now Bentley is in the preoperational Stage of the Piaget four stages of Cognitive development theory. Although she can read and make up stories she has a hard time telling me what happens at the beginning of them. She thinks that if you pour the same amount of water in a flat container and a tall container, the tall one has more water in it.
Bentley’s social and emotional development is on the right track. In Erik Erikson’s stage of psychosocial development Bentley is in the third stage called Initiative vs. Guilt. She shows sense of Initiative. Bentley loves to help out around the house. She asks a lot of questions all the time