How To Write A Preschool Observation
Observation Report
Toni Kaminski ECE 205 – 020 Patrick Lewis November 22, 2007
Observation of a Child in a Preschool Setting (Ages 3 -4)
Westhill Church Preschool (Happy Heart?)
November 1 2007
Thursday, P.M.
Running Record Sample – 1 hour
This is an observation of child A., a young three-year-old Caucasian female in a preschool room of a church. The one-hour observation includes the child listening to a story, and playing during “center time” with the interaction with other peers and Mrs. H., the teacher. Both the peers and the …show more content…
gets personal pleasure from completing shapes with the squishing and pulling the play dough. (Freud) In addition, Mrs. H. continues to check on and help A. even though she is watching and helping other students. Maybe A. has become too dependent on Mrs. H. for the help for her to complete tasks.
2:45 Mrs. H. announces that it is clean-up time. A. looks around and notices that other students are cleaning up, so she starts putting away her play dough and cleans up the mess around her. A. looks down at her hands and notices there is play dough sticking to her hands, she picks up the face cloth and wipes her hands off. Once she is done cleaning, she goes and sits in the chairs by the bulletin board.
When A. notices the other students, cleaning up she immediately puts her stuff down and starts cleaning up as well. This shows that she has awareness for other students in the classroom. It also shows that she has developed as habit, as well as the other students have (cleaning up). A. has also developed a sense of cleanliness, as she cleaned her hands after she was done playing with the play dough.
2:50 All the children are sitting on chairs in front of the bulletin board. Mrs. H. starts to read another story and all students start listening to her
Toni Kaminski ECE 205 – 020 Patrick Lewis November 22, 2007
Observation of a Child in a Preschool Setting (Ages 3 -4)
Westhill Church Preschool (Happy Heart?)
November 1 2007
Thursday, P.M.
Running Record Sample – 1 hour
This is an observation of child A., a young three-year-old Caucasian female in a preschool room of a church. The one-hour observation includes the child listening to a story, and playing during “center time” with the interaction with other peers and Mrs. H., the teacher. Both the peers and the …show more content…
gets personal pleasure from completing shapes with the squishing and pulling the play dough. (Freud) In addition, Mrs. H. continues to check on and help A. even though she is watching and helping other students. Maybe A. has become too dependent on Mrs. H. for the help for her to complete tasks.
2:45 Mrs. H. announces that it is clean-up time. A. looks around and notices that other students are cleaning up, so she starts putting away her play dough and cleans up the mess around her. A. looks down at her hands and notices there is play dough sticking to her hands, she picks up the face cloth and wipes her hands off. Once she is done cleaning, she goes and sits in the chairs by the bulletin board.
When A. notices the other students, cleaning up she immediately puts her stuff down and starts cleaning up as well. This shows that she has awareness for other students in the classroom. It also shows that she has developed as habit, as well as the other students have (cleaning up). A. has also developed a sense of cleanliness, as she cleaned her hands after she was done playing with the play dough.
2:50 All the children are sitting on chairs in front of the bulletin board. Mrs. H. starts to read another story and all students start listening to her