Preschool Observation Paper - 3113 Words

SETTING The date of my observation was April 27th, 2010. It was about 9:30 in the morning when I began my study. I went to Grossmont College’s Child Development Center. The first thing I began looking for was if the child-teacher ratio was correct. The child ratio was 2 teachers to about every 8 children. The ratio was good. As I entered there was one large room that almost looked as if it could be two rooms they way it was set up. One half consisted of a large bookshelf with numerous books on it with a couch in the front of it. The other half of the room was almost like a little kitchen. It had a table with chairs around it with a sink and cabinets behind it. There were â€Å"age appropriate† toys as well as books all over the†¦show more content†¦She is right handed. Right when I saw Addison for the first time she was painting. She was doing everything with her right hand showing the maturation of the prefrontal cortex. Addison’s use of her right hand is evidence lateralization, or sidedness, of the brain. As the corpus callosum connects it allows the person to coordinate functions performed mainly by one hemisphere or the other (Berger 8th edition connecting the Brain’s hemispheres, pg. 226). According to the text the corpus collasum grows rapidly during early childhood. (Addison, at 5, is within in this norm (Berger 8th edition pg. 226). Her fine motor skills were being shown off in many ways throughout my observation. Addison used her plastic spoon to carefully add new colors of paint into her box. She displayed fine motor skills, which involve small body movements (especially those of the hands and fingers) (Berger 8th edition page 234). She is actually advanced for her age because according to (Berger 8th edition pg. 232 table 8.1) bit says the approximate age is 6 when a child will draw and paint with preferred hand. Addison painted by herself around the other children for almost 10 minutes. 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