Upon arrival to the house‚ I found both children playing with different toys in different parts of the home; the girl being five years old and the boy being three years old. Luckily‚ their aunt was more than willing to help‚ and was able to get the children together to start playing. Before I engaged in play with the children‚ I started out by sitting on the couch just watching them‚ and then slowly got closer until I was sitting right next to them on the coffee table. I did this so I did not feel
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Name Of Child: Noor Age: 4 Gender: Girl Setting: Child is inside her own home. Large living room with several other children and toys surrounding the area. Adults are occupying the kitchen which is several feet away. Date: November 28‚ 2013 Time Begin: 5:45 PM Time Ended: 6:30 PM Situation: The child is roaming around an open living room lined with toys. She is accompanied by several children also within her same cohort. Most children are gathered around a play house. There are several miscellaneous
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In an evening spent at a local park‚ I observed two toddlers playing on the playground. Both toddlers were about the same size and height‚ and they were seemingly about two years of age. These two children stood out to me because though they seemed about the same age‚ their behavior on the playground was very different. As I observed‚ both subtle and large differences began to make themselves apparent. One of the toddlers‚ a male‚ was playing on the equipment with a male caregiver. While he was
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REMEMBER: To use pseudonym (not real name) Age of *Child (ren): 3 Sex of Child (ren): male Section One: Little “Bob” walks across the classroom and grabs the peg board. He then sits down in the chair at the left corner of the table. He puts every blue circle peg in its place‚ then he places two of the dark green pegs‚ then all of the yellow triangles‚ then three of the red square pegs‚ then the last rectangular peg and finally the last square peg. He then leans against the
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Laura Taylor Paul Kincs Child and Adolescent Psych 26 April 2010 Child Observation This time‚ I decided to observe children between the ages of five and six in a kindergarten class room at Maddock Public School. Maddock is a smaller school and there were only five children in the class‚ all of them were boys. I knew this would be an interesting day‚ because we learned in class that boys tend to be a little bit more active and disobedient‚ but I was definitely looking forward to it. I went
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Documentation Plan Child name: Ethan Gaines Age: 4 years old Observation location: Social interaction with peers in the outdoors area. Observer: Terry Spencer Summary: After completing several observations using different methods on Ethan Gaines‚ this data will show how he is developing. According to Piaget‚ the three-year-old is in the preoperational stage of development. One main characteristic of a three-year-old is their egocentric‚ or self-centered
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INTRODUCTION Through my years of growing up‚ I only knew to have the basic needs a child should have. My parents struggled to raise four children. We lived in a two-roomed house‚ where one was the kitchen area and the other the sleeping area. We had only one big bed in the sleeping area‚ where my sister and I shared the bed with my mother. My two brothers slept on a single mattress in front of the bed. My father was a construction worker and worked out of town most of the time. We only saw him during
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messy an unclean‚ girls are not good at sports and the list keeps going. These are common stereotypes that can lead people to live lives driven by hate and fear. So‚ what does a common stereotype consist of? How do they form? The purpose of this essay is to give you a clarification on what men vs. women stereotyping is. Nowadays in our culture‚ the men are seen as secure‚ tough‚ self-reliant‚ and the leader‚ while women are seen as warm‚ emotional‚ polite‚ and the follower. These stereotypes can
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factors. According to Webster’s dictionary the word play means‚ activities done for fun or enjoyment. (Merriam-Webster) Play is important to young children and their exploration. Free play is a monitored activity‚ which is a special interest of child. When an infant and toddler
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past ten years‚ obesity in children in the U.S has gone from 7-18 percent (CDC‚2012). The main portion of this lesson revolves around the food pyramid. The food pyramid consists of 6 essential healthy food groups: Grains/rice‚ fruits‚ vegetables‚ dairy‚ meat/fish/poultry‚ fats/oils/sweets. The food pyramid acts as a guideline by showing
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