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Observing children in a pre-k classroom I am told they are all between the ages of 4-5. I first shift my focus to their math center, an activity area on the far left of the room. Here I see blocks with patters, counters of different kinds, shape puzzles, books about numbers, big shape buttons and many other items. I noticed that although there is a variety of themes (farm animals, transportation) everything seems to be big and easy to grab and everything is essentially the same basic colors, with each individual item consisting of entirely one color. The reason why I am going into so much detail about the content of the activity center is because I initially noticed all these details as I was observing a group of three girls which seemed to have approached the center due to different reasons. …show more content…

All of a sudden one of the girls, which seemed to be the smallest of the trio, reached out and took one of the others girl’s activity set although her set looked very similar. To this the girl who had her activity taken from her got up and just grabbed another and kept on about her business, totally unbothered. I approached the assistant teacher, Mrs. Valles and briefly recounted the situation and expressed my amazement not at the first girl action of taking a toy away form a classmate, but at the calm reaction that she received in exchange. Mrs. Valles mentioned how that was very typical behavior from both of them actually. After hearing this I decided to inquire about their outside of the classroom lifestyle that might have contributed to such demanding and pacific personalities. To this Mrs. Valles told me that the first little girl is an only child and that her single mother works many ridiculous hours, and how the second child on the other hand had many siblings, both older and younger and her mother was a stay at home

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