On Wednesday, March 15th I went to Christ the King to observe a child in preschool. The child I observed was a female and she was four years old. While I was there I observed her physical development, social and emotional development, thinking skills, and communication skills. For physical development, I observed her gross and fine motor skills. Her gross motor skills included her gait, balance, running, and picking up toys. Her gait was smooth and effortless. She had good balance and ran with control. She was able to pick up large toys from the floor without falling over as well. These are all expected findings for gross motor skills as a four year old. For fine motor skills she colored, stacked blocks, and matched shapes. Her coloring …show more content…
She named common objects, such as house, ball, doll, chair, and table. She knew right from wrong. When she got up from her seat early without being dismissed the teacher called her out and she immediately sat back down. She was also able to tell me that nurses work with doctors and in doctors offices. Her cognitive skills were sharp. All of these things that I observed are expected findings of cognitive skills at four years of age. She was developmentally appropriate for her age in cognitive skills. Lastly, I observed her communication skills. Her speech was understandable about 90% of the time and she used complete sentences. Her sentences were around six to seven words in length and she was able to tell me stories. She told me a story about how she went to the dentist and he cleaned her teeth. These are expected findings for a four year old. She was developmentally appropriate for her age in communication skills. Using Erikson’s developmental stages, the basic conflict for preschoolers is initiative vs. guilt and important events are exploration. The child I observed took initiative while playing with toys and participating in activities. She also explored by trying new games that she had not played before. The child’s overall development was appropriate for her
So overall she did do a good job as a four year old where at this age they have a wide variety of imagination. Even though she is a bright little girl, all kids at this age might have had the same answers or just a little
He confidently explores physical environments, at free play, he often crawls everywhere in the room to explore the surroundings. He is learning to feed himself and plunge his whole fist into the bowl of food, which is a wonderful sensory and development experience. James starts to imitate the actions of his educators and friends like wiping hands, clapping hands, waving hands. EYLF Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of
Physical: Activities and age appropriate material will be instituted to encourage the child 's fine and gross motor skills. A broad spectrum of tasks, challenges, and curriculum will be introduced. Larger motor skills are developed through strength exercises including, but
During this developmental interview, I chose to conduct an observation/interview study with my one of my cousin’s child. This child is a 4 year old girl and will be identified as “child K” in relation to her first name. Her parents had no problem letting me interview her, but I had them stay in the same room as us. The purpose of this interview was to observe the child’s physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. I observed her behavior and gave her several tests to show how well she has progressed.
All of the theoretical frameworks of child development appear in Curious George. Behaviorism and social learning being the most prominent theory and psychodynamic being the theory that is most lacking. The development of a preschooler is complex and involves many factors including
Around fifteen minutes, the child I was observing got out legos,took them to the carpeted area and then started to play with them. He also invited others play to with them. This behavior shows initiative. He wants to be friendly and show he can do things. This behavior is congruent with Erikson's, initiative v guilt stage of development.
Before doing the actual testing, the clinician provided the child with two rounds of practice. The four year old boy was able to correctly name five items spontaneously. However, he had difficulty remembering and producing certain items such as cookie. In instances where the child could not label the exhibited food items, the clinician provided minimal prompts and cues (i.e. co- for cookie). At times, the speech pathologist would provide maximal cues through imitations.
DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES 6 DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES Developmental Milestones in a Three Year Old Infant Using the Denver II Developmental Screening Tool Claudia Aguilar Keiser University Normal Development in a Three Year Old Infant According to Brazelton (2001), after surviving the “terrible two’s”, we have to start getting prepared for a preschooler, his constantly “why’s” and all of the magic that comes with this age; starting with the fact that child finally listens to you, paying more attention to what he is being told and letting his imagination fly and run wild. The author mentions different areas where development can be clearly noticed, such as the language area, by the child’s ability to say his or her name and age, also being able
The Active Child Theme: Infant Cognitive Development Katherine Pita Florida International University DEP 2001 Cognitive development is the process that leads to the emergence of the ability to think and understand (Siegler, DeLoache, Eisenberg, & Saffran, 2014). This process involves the “development of thinking and reasoning” (Siegler et al., 2014, p.15) throughout childhood, including the growth of capabilities such as “perception, attention, language, problem solving, reasoning, memory, conceptual understanding, and intelligence” (Siegler et al., 2014, p. 131). Children contribute to their development through self-initiated activity even before they are born, by practicing breathing and digestive processes and exercising
According to Cynthia Lightfoot, author of “The development of the children”, “young children’s fine motor skills improve notably and early childhood is marked by impressive gains in both gross and fine motor skills”. Daniel’s
As observed with Taylor, he could easily tell that someone new had come in his house and he did not respond to me the way he responded to his mother. Cognitive development during childhood plays a vital role in their future abilities and
Introduction Developmental psychology makes an attempt to comprehend the types and sources of advancement in children’s cognitive, social, and language acquisition skills. The pioneering work done by early child development theorists has had a significant influence on the field of psychology as we know it today. The child development theories put forward by both Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson have had substantial impacts on contemporary child psychology, early childhood education, and play therapy. In this essay, I aim to highlight the contribution of these two theorists in their study of various developmental stages, the differences and similarities in their theories, and their contributions to the theory and practice of play therapy.
By four years children are communicating in four to five-word sentences and can be understood by anyone.” (Communication Difficulties -
and it begins with the sensorimotor stage, a child from birth to the age of 2 years old learns and thinks by doing and figuring out how something works. The second stage is the preoperational stage and in this stage children from ages 2 through 7 years are developing their language and they do pretend play (Berk, 2005, p.20). Concrete operational is the third stage and children ages 7 to 11 years old lack abstract but have more logic than they did when they were younger. The last stage is formal
Reflect and connect: What developmental milestones were observed or demonstrated? physical (2), social (2), emotional (2), cognitive (2), language (2). • Social Milestones o The child enjoys playing with the same aged peers (J.S., T.M.) ("Child Development Screening", p. 7). During the anecdote, J.S. and T.M. both children were working in-group settings.