Early Childhood Observation Of Free Play

The observation was done during free play time. Steven is a 3 year old boy. He was in the block area and then walked over to the playhouse. He stopped and looked at the other two boys playing in the playhouse. Then he went to the table that three children were playing. On the table, there were two game containers: Magna-Tiles and counting bears. John and Tiffany were playing with the counting bears, and Tim was playing with the Magna-Tiles. Steven stood behind Tim and looked at what Tim was doing. Then he sat down on the chair next to Tim, and took square pieces from the container. He lay the square piece flat down on the table first, added four pieces standing up, and then one piece covered the top like a 3-D cube. He flipped the top, on the sides, and backward. He opened the top and put some of the bears inside. He grabbed more Magna-Tiles in the container. He connected the pieces to make another
Now he had made 4 cubes-Rectangular Prism. He put bears in each of the box. He opened from the side and put more bear in. Justin saw what he made and came to play with it. Steven did not say a thing. He kept opening each box either taking out or putting in more bears. He laughed when he slipped the side open and the bears fell out. He open at different side and put the bears inside. He took more bears from Tiffany and put them inside the box. He and Justin were laughing when they snapped the pieces together. Roman took the bears and about to put in the box, but Steven push him away. Roman cried and looked for teacher. Teacher came and explained to him that there were not a lot Magna-Tiles, and if he could give his friend some. He kept playing. Then he threw one piece to Roman. He and Justine