*I'm in Room 5 (Mrs. Kathy Black), which is a half day. My scheduled time is from 8:00am to 12:00pm on Wednesdays. The only issue I have with this is that having free time from 11:30-12:00 because the children already have left for the day. during this time I do look over my days notes, and observe the other classroom outside once my classroom teacher/aid are done with clean-up. From the 8-8:30 free time before the children arrive, I jot down what the activities are that the teacher is setting up and preparing for the day.
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*One situation that I observed this past week was about half of the class helped the T.A build a block tower to make ledge for the tubes used as a race track. About 2 or 3 kids stood near the block tower and helped hold the tubes, while 2 kids held the basket at the bottom of the track for the cars to land in. Then 2 other children raced their cars from the top of the track and watched to see who one that race.
[Child #1] "watch mines go down, I'm going to win you"-says the child on the right side of the track
[Child #2] "no my blue car is faster"-the other child responds back to the previous comment made
(My response (in my head) while this was happening was that how different their comments were. The second child had more of a descriptive answer than the first child. Then I realized child #2 was also 4yrs old and child #1 is 3yrs old. ---The difference between ages show how differently they developed. this shows that the older child is more descriptive with their words than the younger child.
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*If I were the teacher of the classroom and had to plan an activity for the next day that would further the development that is happening in this current situation I would prepare an activity involving Color Identification. This activity could consist of preparing the activity before the class begings (so that it is set up already & saves time for the activity) then possibly reading a story at the begining of the day that has to do with colors in some way. Next, move on to introducing the activity, mabe show an example or the steps that would be done. Then I would watch the children interact and construct the activity given. (Helping those who need assistance)
~Overall this past two weeks have been very informative and definitely shows me how funny it is to watch and listen in on the children's actions and conversations. I wonder what next week will have in store.~
Happy Friday! :-)
