Childhood Observation Essay

The Children’s Museum in Erie is a great place to go and take your children between the ages of one and ten. There are so many different activities children of these ages can participate in. The downstairs of the museum had many learning opportunities for children and the upstairs had many opportunities to use imagination and pretend. While in the Children’s Museum, I observed many concepts in the dimensions of physical development, cognitive development, social and emotional development, and play behavior.
First, physical development is defined as the change in body size, proportions, appearance, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor capacities, and physical health. Of these things, I noticed fine and gross motor skills the …show more content…
In the supermarket, a girl played and checked her items out. After she checked out her items she took her small shopping cart back to all the shelves and placed her items back very carefully. She did it to her degree of perfection and she even fixed and reorganized some of the other kids’ items they were placing back. Also in the supermarket, a line developed at the register. Many of the kids waiting in line were very patient and realized they had to take turns to check their groceries out. However, one of the children was very impatient and began bumping his shopping cart into other kids’ shopping carts. He did not quite understand the concept of turn …show more content…
I observed four ways. The first way of play I observed was sociodramatic play between two sisters with the stage upstairs. They had a small audience and would pick a member of the audience to come up on stage. While the audience member was onstage, the girls would give them a character or role to play. They were very imaginative with the roles given out to people. Another form of play I observed was parallel play at the Thoughts Flow Hydraulic Dam exhibit. There was always a decent amount of children playing at the exhibit, but none of them interacted with one another. The children would interact with the family member accompanying them, but not with other

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