Friday, October 7, 2011

Observation #3

This weeks observation was nice.  The children i choose to observe was interacting with each other in such a way that had me smiling all day.

Here's the story


Two children were playing with the tornado bottles and yelling at each other to look at the others tornado.  Both repeating "look it" to one another.  Child A rows his on the rug and child B joins him for a minute then went back to his normal play of tornado bottles.

Child A  Leaves his trains alone while playing with Child B.  Child C walks over grab the trains to add to his collection of 8 magnetic trains that were hook together.  Child A runs over yelling and screaming reaching out to Child C in hope to grabbing his trains back. The staff ask " whats wrong Child A", Child C immediately gives Child A back his trains. Child A places the trains in front of him while he return back to the rug area to play with Child B.  Child B picks up the trains as he watches Child C and places the trains behind Child A.  Child A looks at Child B but, does not respond.  Two minutes later Child B and Child B gets up and runs to a table that contained puzzles.  Child C walks over to Child C trains and grab one.  He whispers to Child A "here Child A" with his arm stretched out.  Child A does not respond.  One by one Child C takes the trains and on each on he whispers to Child A "here" until he has all 3.

It was too funny and cute.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Terri:

    FIrst of all, you've got cute kids! I'd love'em to pieces too.

    I enjoyed your observation of the train thief and how it all got resolved without any tears or fighting. These boys have the makings of future, decent, law-abiding citizens!

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  2. That is such an interesting and funny story. Its great that the students were able to interact with one another with no real safety concerns. The student who wanted to play with the trains has a lot of patience. Most children would see that the child has stopped playing with it or sometimes still playing with it and take it for their selves. I'm wondering what was the roll of the teacher besides just inquiring what was going on?

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  3. Hi Terri! Can you e-mail me cynthia.viera@lausd.net I need to talk to you about one of the comments I posted that is not showing anymore. Thanks!

    -Cynthia

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