4/27/10

Today with Jack and four other children we read a book called Bears Left and Right By: Keith Faulkner. The book is an interactive book where children can pull tabs to see what under the bears left and right paw. After reading the story we played twister. The first time I spun the spinner and told them where to put their hand or foot, and after they got the hang of the game the children took turns being the spinner and with the help of an adult read what the spinner said, and some of the children just made up what it said. Jack was very engaged in the game. He had some difficulty distinguishing right from left, but he knew the colors very well. He also had some trouble trying to balance while keeping his feet and hands in place. All of the children were having fun and laughing when they had trouble balancing and when they fell they would just get up and try again.

4/23/10

Today I observed Jack playing T Ball outside. He was very into the game and knew how to play. He was able to hit the whiffle ball off of the T, but ended up knocking the T over to. When in the outfield Jack would run around with his friends and go after the ball. Later inside he would play with the tornados made out of two pop bottles and show me how it made a tornado. He also played with another whether toy that when you shake it and the wire hits the can it sounds like thunder or a storm.

4/20/10

Today I went to the children's center and observed Jack again. I observed him getting a story read to him about vegetables. He listened to the story and when asked a question he would answer. He was also able to use picture clues to identify what vegetables were in the pictures even though he could not read the words. He is also my reading buddy for EDUC 350 so I have noticed through this that he is very good at using pictures to tell what is going on in the story. I have also noticed throug observing him every tuesday for this class that he is aware of what is going on around him. He is always curious about the activities that the other children are doing. He is able to create his own story through looking at pictures and it ends up being very similar to what the words say. Later today I watched him play in the sensory table with the bugs. He told me which bugs could fly and which ones couldn't. He pointed out that they could fly because they had wings. He was burying them in the sand and using other bugs with claws or pincher's to dig them up. He was very engaged in this and told me that he liked bugs and that he finds them outside sometimes. Like worms or spiders in the dirt or just flys, bees, and butterflies flying around outside

4/6/10

Today I observed Jack at the Childrens Center. I observed Jack playing with blocks and trucks. Jack was making a tool shed and a road for the trucks to go down to get to it. He was also using the carpet as water so that a boat could go there too. Jack was using problem solving skill by deciding which blocks would fit together and which could stack on top of each other without falling over. He was very excited about playing with the blocks and was playing with another little boy.