her to explore her physicality by running around with her, and taking her to the park. Her older sibling who is 8 years old and is in 3 grade, she plays tennis and dances, so she likes to stay fit. As we all know kids like to imitate others, so D likes to imitate her sister and parents. A lot of young kids see their parents and sibling as role models. D was born on November 24, 2015, and lives with her mother, father, and her older sister in the New York City. Her father is in the army, and spends a few days a week out while the mother who take care of elderly’s leaves D with her grandparents when she is at work, in her days off she has them. D was born here in America but her parents are Caribbean so she speaks English and Haitian Creole due to the reason that her parents speaks both language at home and because her mom isn't fluent in the language yet.
Observations summarizes Upon entering the Smith’s house on Monday October 10th at 12:00 pm, I noticed how organized and clean the house was. Toys were putting away neat in a ban, this allows D space to play and run around. Mrs. Smith was in the kitchen cooking, while D was in the bathroom taking a shower by herself. Mrs. Smith told mm to have a sit in the living room while she go get D. As I made my way to the living room and took a seat at one of the empty chair in the back. I then proceeded my observation on D while she running around naked around the house. Fighting with her mother because she wanted to dress herself. When she was finally dress she made her way to the living room, I said hi to her and introduced myself as she weave back to me.
After school when D sisters assignments were with homework, her sister would grab a book and sit on the sofa and D would grab and sit right next to her while she read her book called "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr.Seuss.
overtime she read a new page D would repeat what she says, while pointing at the pictures and changing to the next page. Half way through sister gets down and says "Who wants to draw a green eggs and ham". D is jumping up and down with excitement and racing to the box where they keep drawing materials and grabbed everything that they needed and run back to the floor. psychologist Lev Vygotsky's theory of cognitive developement posits that information from external world is transformed and internalized through language. Since language is both a symbolic system of communication and a cultural tool used to send culture and history, play is an essential part of both language development and a child's understanding of the external world. When a child is at play, he or she is in a constant dialogue either with self or others" (Vygotsky). I believe what Vygotsky is trying to say is that when a child imitate others, they are developing vocabulary that allows them to name and navigate the world around them, and this is why around this age parents and sibling has to be careful what they say or do around them. One example was, while Mrs.Smith was cooking she accidentally got burn and said the "F"word. Here come D with one od her toys, dropped it on the floor and said the "F" word. When her mom walked over to her and said "No D, you can't say that, that's bad" she got frustrated and crossed her arms and walked away. She is probably trying to understand why she can't say it, but her mom
can.
After thirty minutes of observation, I noticed how active and responsive D was to her surrounding. I watched her play the role of "mommy". with her doll. She pretending to care for her doll as a mother would for her baby. She would gently hold the doll in her hand and feed her a bottle.After feeding the baby she put her baby to sleep like any mother would, put her finger on her lip saying "hush". Around this stage toddlers often pretend to be someone they are not, whether its being a mom, or a princess character. According to Piaget " As the pre-operational stage develops egocentrism declines and children begin to enjoy the participation of another child in their games and “lets pretend “ play becomes more important. For this to work there is going to be a need for some way of regulating each child’s relations with the other and out of this need we see the beginnings of an orientation to others in terms of rules".