Location:
Date:
Time: 11 AM
Setting: Kindergarten
Observer:
G and M and I are playing in the dramatic area.
G and M pretending that I is their guest and they
are preparing a bed for her.
Cognition:
Pretend play, serving a guest
Social:
Co-operation, preparing the bed
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
S, L, C and R are playing with k’Nex in the free play
area. Each of them is making different thing with
the k’Nex. S says: “I’m making a dinosaur. I want to
make it really big!”. C says: “ I'm making an alien.”
S, as he is holding what he has made says:“My
alien is really cool and big.” R is trying to fly his
airplane and says: “Look at my airplane, it flies
really high”. L says “I want to make a spaceship.”
When everyone is finished, they are making
different sound as they are marching around the
room.
Cognition:
Making an imaginary object with K’Nex
Physical:
Fine motor skill, working with small objects, pulling
and pushing small object
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers about the materials to add
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A, G1, G2 and M are playing Lego in the free play
area. G1 is trying to make a tower and so she puts
all the Legos together vertically and is making it as
tall as possible. She says: “ I’m going to make a tall
tower.”
A says: “I’m making a ship. A really big ship.”
G2 finishes making a train and he is riding it and
making beep sound and walking around the room.
M is making a car.
Cognition:
Building block
Physical:
Fine motor skill working with Legos
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
E and A are playing in the kitchen area with
kitchen toys. E says: “I’ll cook the food and you do
the dishes.” A answers: “Ok, I’ll set the table as
you are cooking. And I’ll do the dishes at the end.”
Cognition:
Pretend play
Social:
Co-operation
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Fine motor skill working with kitchenware object
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C1,N, S,and C2 are playing with Legos.C1 says:
“Let’s make a really big ship together.” N says:“Ok,
let’s make it.” C2 says:“We can make the front side
all with yellow Legos and the back all blue.” S
says:“Let’s put a person in front of it, like he is
riding the ship.”Boys are helping each other and
make the ship. When they finish the ship, they all
yelled: “Look what we’ve made! The biggest ship
ever!”
Cognition:
Working with blocks
Social:
Co-operation, working with each other in building
a ship
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Fine motor skill, working with Legos
G, M, A and L are sitting at the art table. G said: “I
want to draw a rainbow.” L said: “I’m also drawing
a rainbow, but mine is going to be bigger and more
beautiful than you!” M says: “I’m drawing a
garden, full of beautiful flowers.” A also says: “I
want to draw a landscape of a spring. It will be
beautiful.”
After they finish drawing, M says to L:“I drew a
flower and you didn’t! So mine is better than
yours!” Then, L answers: “You didn’t draw a
butterfly, like I did, so mines better.”
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Cognition:
Drawing
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Fine motor skill, working with crayons
H and E are playing with wooden tools. They are
pretending to make up each other. H tells E: “Let
me do make up for you.” The E says: “Ok. Can you
also do my hair?”
H answers: “Yeh, sure.” And she starts pretending
that she is doing make up for E.
Cognition:
Pretend play, doing make up
Social:
Co-operation, allow each other to do make up
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Fine motor skill, working with small objects
A, Z, K, I and M are playing in dramatic area. A, Z
and K are pretending to be guests, and I and M are
pretending to their hostess.
I is preparing food for their guests and M is
bringing the food for them.
A picks a slice cucumber and says”I like
cucumber!”
Z says “I have cucumber with my lunch every day.”
K picks a slice of cucumber and says “Thank you.”
Cognition:
Pretend play, pretend to cook, being hostess.
Social:
Co-operation with each other to serve the guests
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Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
about food
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Fine motor skill, picking cucumber
H, E1, N, and E2 are playing in the wooden block
area.
H tells E1 “Let’s make a tunnel.”
E1 replies “And let’s make a train passing through
the tunnel.” They put the wooden parts to form a
tunnel, and put the wooden parts to stimulate a
train.
N tells E2 ”Let’s make a car.”
They put the blocks alongside each other and
pretending they are making a car.
Cognition:
Working with blocks, making tunnel, train and car
Social:
Co-operation, working with each other to make
tunnel, train and car
Communication and language:
Using Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Conversing with Peers
Physical:
Gross and fine motor skill, working with small and
big wooden blocks
Curriculum:
By observing, we can identify the children’s interests. It helps to change the program and
develop emerging curriculum according to the children’s interest and developmental domain.
In the development of the children in the cognitive, social emotional, communication and
language, and physical domains, the educator can set up the environment and also develop
activities suitable for the next level of their development.
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Through my observation, I have noticed that the children have a very good imagination and they
are very interested in and enjoy getting engaged in such kinds of activities. The educator can
focus more on dramatic play, storytelling by children, pretend play (such as make up) and such
activities to employ the children’s imagination.
References
Bertrand, et al. (2007). Early Learning for Every Child Today: A framework for Ontario early
childhood settings
Wojcik, C. (2011). Pearson Custom Education: Introduction to Curriculum. Pearson Learning
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