Examples Of Observation Of Child Development

My goal was to observe children interacting in a natural environment at the Strong Museum. I observed children’s play and learning in four different areas of child development: social, emotional, cognitive, and physical. In Strong Museum, I observed three different natural environments: Super Kids Market, Field of Play, and Reading Adventureland. First, I observed the children interacting at Super Kids Market aka Wegmans. The children had the opportunity to be a shopper or be an employee of the market. At the café section, majority of the girls puts on the aprons as they were imitating as they work at the café. Clearly, the girls knew they had to put on aprons because they must have seen workers at café wearing aprons or some sort of uniform on. The girls
The Reading Adventureland contained five different literary landscapes inspired by children’s book. The five literary landscapes are Mystery Mansion, Upside-Down Nonsense House, Adventure Island, Fairy Tale Forest, and Wizard’s Workshop. I decided to observe children at Adventure Island as there were more children playing. The caves in Adventure Island had a sandbox and the boys were throwing sands around showing that there motor skills are developing to the point where they can throw at a great distance. For girls, I see that they don’t throw sands around like the boys do; they tend to fill the buckets with sands instead. Cognitively, it seemed that the girls are more mature than the boys are because the girls followed the rules given by their parents, such as do not throw the sand, on other hand, the boys don’t listen. Socially, the boys are more aggressive because they like to knock the sand towers or piles down as they yell. I believe that the boys are imagining that they are monsters taking over the “city.” The girls ran to their parents after their sand tower were destroyed by the boys. This indicates that the girls were emotionally