Observation Of An Early Childhood Classroom

Student X is a four-year-old girl from New York City, who has four older sisters and lives with her siblings, mother and grandmother. Student X mother is a divorced stay at home mother, her family is from Egypt but she only speaks English. Student X is in preschool at P.S. 58 School of Heroes in Maspeth. She hasn’t been assessed for any developmental delays or disabilities, but her mother believes she might be delayed due to the deficiency of language development. The classroom is located on the first floor of the school, next to another preschool and three kindergarten classrooms. There are twenty students, one teacher and two paraprofessionals throughout the whole day. The cubbies have the student’s names and pictures and are located by the door. There is a bathroom that connects both preschool classrooms. The classroom has three rectangular tables, which have six seats in each table and one small round table with two seats. There is a block, dramatic play, sand box table, water table, art and writing, library and a computer area. There is also a meeting area where the blackboard has charts about good and poor choices, center time chart, the classroom’s schedule and charts about today and the letters. There are many signs in the classroom, like shapes, colors, the alphabet, numbers
It gives children an opportunity to exercise their imagination, communicate effectively, enhance their social literacy, and build community in a different way. Many of the skills practiced through oral storytelling and the dramatic play that stems from it address applicable local and state early learning standards as well”(Berkowitz,36). I think oral story telling would help student X, especially if it is a book that she would enjoy to listen. By reading stories that attract her she can socialize with other students, and predict what might happen in the