Preschool Teacher Observation

I learned how the teachers set appropriate hands on activities and create environments for children to learn math, science and social study throughout their everyday life. It is also an integrated learning style, so all the inquiry subjects are connected. It is important to know that children are still preoperational stage according to Piaget. They use their five senses to learn things. It is not important if the child can count on hundred or not or they know how to write the numbers. I believe children hear, see and touch more about inquiry activities, their brain get stronger and they become smarter. I do counting with children during snack time all the time. If the animal crackers are their snack, I will tell them you can have four crackers
I should write the teacher observation with Ms.G.W because it was very age appropriate math activity for preschool children. We measured the height of baby by using blocks. First we guess how many blocks we will use, and we let the baby lay down on the floor. We put two scotch papers on the floor, one is next to his head and the other one is next to his toe. Each child has the block and put the block in between one by one. We counted how many blocks we put in the between two scotch papers. We had 27 children that day and one child did not put the block. Some children knew how many blocks before we counted the blocks. Our guess was bigger. We also compared the baby’s height from october’s one. He was 24 on October, so he grew 3 blocks. It was very a successful activity. On the other hand, parents helping egg dying activity was not so many interaction between the children and the parents. Ms.Nora asked me after parents left how did I feel the activity. I said parents did all the work and children did less because the parents prepared all the colors from food like the old
Ms. Nora suggested me if I do the activity like that, I should let the children make the color. I also learned from Ms. Nora, “Do not interview the pain.” method. Ryan sometimes acted negatively. He did not play with others at the playground and did not want to participate egg dying activity. Teacher told his parents, “Do not ask Ryan how was your school today? Owen did something to you? If you ask him negative things he will look for that. Just tell them your good things about the days. Giving him the example.” Hopefully, Ryan’s posture gets straight and he participates more. I think I will use that method to my son. I could not meet all of my goal last week because of I don’t have time to practice reading books at home. My goal for next week are the same to sing songs loud more and read books with children more