Examples Of Preschool Observation

For my fourth observation of Jaelee, I was looking to see if she can follow through with one clear, simple direction. When I went to her class, she was outside playing. She played out in the playground for a while and then Ms. Reta asked the children to line up to go back inside. Ms. Reta had to ask Jaelee once and she got in line; she followed directions so well that Ms. Reta had her get a toy drum and had her hit the drum while screaming line up to the other children. Jaelee really enjoyed helping her teacher in getting the children lined up.
After the children went in the room Ms. Reta had them sit in a circle and told them that they had a choice of activities that they can do. She said that they can paint, read, play doctor or play with clay. Jaelee chose to go play doctor, were she gave me a shot and put a Band-Aid over the area where she gave me the shot. We played doctor for a while, then she decided to go draw. Before she could go draw Ms. Reta asked her to clean up where she was playing and put up the Band-Aids. Jaelee did as she was asked without having to be asked again.
Then we went over to the art area and Jaelee drew some pictures. I helped her draw a flower, face and a star. Then it was time to clean up, and Jaelee went around helping her classmates put things away. But when she got back
Before Ms. Reta started the story she put in a cd of a bear hunt song/ activity. The cd was about going on a bear hunt, were the children would pretend to be walking around looking for a bear. Jaelee participated and listened and followed directions while doing this activity. There is a part in the bear hunt were they find the bear and the kids have to run away from the bear. For that part Jaelee, had so much fun she turned around and looked at me with a big smile on her face and laughing while she was pretending to run away from the