Throughout my time at Suffolk Community College, I have done a lot of observations and many hours of student teaching between the ages 4-7 years old. So, walking into an infant classroom for an observation was a first-time thing for me.
The infant room was full of a lot of wooden furniture (example: cabinets, changing table, cribs, shelves etc.) and the walls are painted an eggshell white. The instant I walked into the entrance of the room near the door, right hand side there was a kitchen, with a sink, baby formula, utensils, baby bottles and sippy cups. Furthermore, the right-hand side had three cribs, a rug mat with a few soft baby dolls, jumproo and a mirror. The right side of the room was carpeted along with picture of the children and
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In an infant room the day is controlled by the children’s moods, and attention span. On this day, the general mood for the children was happy and very active. As for the staff members, they both seemed happy to be there and repeated told me how much they love working with the infants. The teachers were very attentive to children and right on top of children’s needs. All children are feed before starting the day, 2 Infants are feed by bottle and 6 children were capable of independently self-feeding. This is typically followed by changing the children’s diapers and allowing the children to play and interact with each other. Most of the children are mobile, other than 2 infants (7 months & 8 months old). The children that are mobile where pretty much self-efficient. They would neither be walking or crawling around the room, some children spent a lot of their time looking through the children’s books in the library center, while others were taking toys from each other. This eventually turned into needing intervention by the teacher’s assistant. This falls under the example of scaffolding by prompting the children to share and take