Child Devlopment
Child Development 201
A Preschool Cognitive Development Observation
Child’s Name: Aaron Kingsland (An imaginary name)
Date: October 7th, 2011
Time: 9:00am – 11:30am.
Observer’s Name: ----------------------------------------------
Location: Early Creativity Learning Center Classroom
THE COGNITIVE OBSERVATION OF A PRESCHOOLER - AGE 4 YEARS OLD
Cognitive Development consists of imagination, sequencing, problem solving and memory, all these are featured in the boy I observed, Aaron King who was the little boy I chose to observe. He is a four year-old preschooler at the above named learning center. I started observing Aaron at the beginning of their circle time. During the circle time, Aaron amongst other fourteen kids in his classroom, sang the popular American Song: “IF YOU ARE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR HANDS….”
While singing this song, the children’s voices were up and loud which indicated that they enjoyed singing songs. Aaron’s participation was great, he was so excited about the choruses, clapping & stomping of his feet. All the children in turn repeated and imitated all the actions of the teacher; as she needed the audience and focus of the kids for easy understanding of the wordings including choruses of the song. Aaron standing close to two other kids, a boy and a girl sang the song with seriousness while clapping their hands & stomping their feet at the same time. The teacher taught the Safety signs briefly. The children’s literacy is very high while learning safety signs as they were very interested in the emphasis laid in the safety signs. In order to ensure that the children understood what they were taught, the teacher asked Aaron what a particular sign stood for which he answered correctly. For example, stop sign is signified by a red color while “no bicycle” sign is signified by a cross on a bicycle, so on and so forth. The teacher taught the
A Preschool Cognitive Development Observation
Child’s Name: Aaron Kingsland (An imaginary name)
Date: October 7th, 2011
Time: 9:00am – 11:30am.
Observer’s Name: ----------------------------------------------
Location: Early Creativity Learning Center Classroom
THE COGNITIVE OBSERVATION OF A PRESCHOOLER - AGE 4 YEARS OLD
Cognitive Development consists of imagination, sequencing, problem solving and memory, all these are featured in the boy I observed, Aaron King who was the little boy I chose to observe. He is a four year-old preschooler at the above named learning center. I started observing Aaron at the beginning of their circle time. During the circle time, Aaron amongst other fourteen kids in his classroom, sang the popular American Song: “IF YOU ARE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR HANDS….”
While singing this song, the children’s voices were up and loud which indicated that they enjoyed singing songs. Aaron’s participation was great, he was so excited about the choruses, clapping & stomping of his feet. All the children in turn repeated and imitated all the actions of the teacher; as she needed the audience and focus of the kids for easy understanding of the wordings including choruses of the song. Aaron standing close to two other kids, a boy and a girl sang the song with seriousness while clapping their hands & stomping their feet at the same time. The teacher taught the Safety signs briefly. The children’s literacy is very high while learning safety signs as they were very interested in the emphasis laid in the safety signs. In order to ensure that the children understood what they were taught, the teacher asked Aaron what a particular sign stood for which he answered correctly. For example, stop sign is signified by a red color while “no bicycle” sign is signified by a cross on a bicycle, so on and so forth. The teacher taught the