Effects of poverty on the physical development of a Jamaican child Physical development is defined by Tina Bruce and Carolyn Meggitt in the text Child Care and Education as “the way in which the body gains skills and become more complex in its performance.” Arnold Gesell a psychologist and pediatrician put forth normative development guidelines for a child (physical development milestones). The normative development guidelines are categorized into gross motor skills‚ fine -motor skills and balance/coordination
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The child I observed is a 5-year-old Caucasian boy. He has blonde hair and is about the same height and size of the other children in the preschool classroom. During the time I observed the children were engaged in self-selected activities that were set up around the room. The boy I watched spent his time engaging in play with a light table that was filled with knot sand and plastic bugs. The children used magnifying glasses to look at the materials that filled the table. The purpose of time sampling
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An observation was conducted with Mr. Gallardo and Gabriella‚ in the evaluator’s office. The child appeared comfortable and relaxed with her father. However‚ during the observation‚ the child began shaking each of her legs. This continued intermittently during the observation. The father begins the discussion by asking about Gabriella about going to the museum with Justine and dad’s girlfriend. The father asked about going to a singing class with Justine. He reported that he was going to sign her
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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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1. You are asked to select a reading book for a three year old. Describe the features you would want within the book in order to foster a child’s intellectual ability‚ such as colour recognition and shape recognition? For this assignment is my chosen book is: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell. In my opinion this book contains lots of things that a three-years old needs to develop intellectually. Children at this age‚ learns quickly through exploring. They use all of their senses to discover new things
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child development - birth-19 years most babies will start to respond quickly as soon as born‚ babies grow quickly and some develop quicker than others. it is most important for parents to have all the right skills for their children to grow and develop in all area’s e.g physical‚ intelectual‚language‚emotional‚social. physical development 0-3months- babies tend to sleep most of the time and they grow fast. They need opurtunities where they can play and exercise with different kinds of toys
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Sky Barragan‚ daughter of a good friend of mine is the child I observed for this written evaluation. Sky is four years old with a birthday quickly approaching this upcoming July. The observation took place at a local park in Pasadena that Sky frequents quite regularly for play time. We arrived at the park at approximately nine fifty in the morning and left the park at ten thirty. The park is about five acres and located in a quiet neighborhood of Pasadena‚ CA. It has a playground‚ basketball courts
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I observed a child just over 1 year old. I’ll call her‚ Rae. Rae has an older sister‚ we’ll call her Jo. When I first began observing her‚ she was playing with her sister and was smiling. I assume she was having fun. She seemed fine until her mom popped out and went to the restroom. She also had trouble sharing with her older sister. I noticed that Rae was always trying to stand and walk‚ she’s wobbly. The first major thing I observed was that Rae seemed to have a problem departing from her mom
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when a child is placed in a crib he may start crying‚ because being in the crib would be mean that he couldn’t be with his mother. The second one is repetition. These are habitual practices that we do over and over to the point where‚ if we don’t do it‚ things will seem out of place. The third is imitation. Children often like to imitate others‚ like repeating the same utterance their caregiver may have recently said. Or‚ for example‚ if child A starts playing with an aggressive child B‚ child
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Assignment 1 Describe how you might contribute to a lesson given to a group of seven year old children learning to play percussion instruments. Obviously before the lesson starts the teacher needs to lay out the objectives of the lesson‚ including the plan for what the teaching assistants role will be. It could be possible that the teacher wants the assistant to support a small group of children who may have greater learning needs than the rest of the class. As a teaching assistant it would
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