Date of observation : October 18, 2012
Time of observation : 9:05-9:35
Setting : Observation took place in a classroom of Richmond Preschool . There were 18 children who are 4 years old, 3 ECE teachers and 1 volunteer during this observation.
Child's name : Tom Child's age : 4 years old
Tom spins his jacket into the air and drops it on the floor. He picks up and hangs on the hook under his name tag. He asks his mom to take out his indoor shoes from the shoes rack. When his mom answers him to do himself, he walks to the rack and take out his indoor shoes from the basket that has his name on. After he sits down on the floor and changes the shoes, he put his outdoor shoes under …show more content…
He says, "I am playing with this." showing the airplane to that boy. Tom talks to the boy, " Why don't you build something else?". He swirls his airplane into the air in a circle with making "ah~~~" sound. He put it down on the floor and picks up a small wood block. He moves his block on the tracks that other boys already built together with long wood blocks. He stands up and walks to the container and pick up more blocks. He puts the block on the track and moves it like a toy car. When he sees another block on the way, he says, "I can't move." and crashes it with his block. His block and a few blocks are out of the track and some of them fall on his leg. He starts to build blocks again and puts one big one to under a bridge part. He says, "Broken road, broken road." One boy next to him calls out police. He picks a small yellow car on the floor and moves it back and forth on the wood block. He picks up two more cars from the container. He bumps one of cars to another boy's car and searches his reaction on his face. Even though one girl who is passing by him says something to Tom, he does not respond her at all and turns his back away from her. He concentrates on moving his car on other boy's arm. That girl follows him and tries to talk to him again. He says, "Do you know what? Broken road here." pointing out the mess part of the wood track. When he approaches his car to another car his friend is playing with, that