Kerriebah Bedonie

ECE-252

Play Observation:
(6-12 months, 12 – 18months, 18-24 months, and 24 – 30 months)

1. Description:
The two children I observed are Child J (age-9 months), Child K (age-11 1/2
months) the setting is in a home care scene. The children are located in the living
room area on a blanket with toys disturbed all around the blanket all the furniture
were pushed back against the wall and the TV was on turned on to the news. There
were two adults present sitting on the couch having snacks and coffee.
2. Play materials:
a. Blocks (appropriate), ball (appropriate), dolls (appropriate), wooden cars
(appropriate), puzzles (not appropriate), toy animals (appropriate), rubber
ducks (appropriate), and toy keys (appropriate).
b. Child J rolled around with the toy keys in his hand for about six minutes.
Child K was banging two cars together for two minutes until one of the
parents said, “don’t bang the cars” as she shook her head no to the child.
Child K then saw the ball, bumped it, and followed as it rolled around she
crawled after the ball for about nine and a half minutes.
c. When Child J was rolling around with the toy keys for six minutes, I believe
that it was because it was easy to grasp as he rolled around. When Child K
was banging two cars together for two minutes seems that he was exploring
the sound the cars made when he banged them together until he was stopped
and then he left the cars alone. When Child K started to bump into the ball,
the ball would move, and he would follow the ball for about nine and a half
minutes it seems he wanted to explore movement the ball made when he
touched it.
d. No the play or play materials didn’t stimulate or contribute to language
because there was no adult interacting to put in the language such as labels
and descriptions.
3. Social Play:
a. The two children did a parallel play and seemed not interact. From what I
saw, the two children just played among themselves as if they were in their
own worlds.
 b. No the play materials did not help determine the level of social play because I
believe that there were too many toys in the environment.
c. There was no interaction between the children. The only interaction I saw
between Child K and one of the adults is when the adult told Child K to stop
banging the cars together.
d. The adult interaction affected the play by stopping Child K to continue to
explore sound from banging the cars together.
4. Conclusion:
a. I learned that children really do live in their own worlds to where sometimes
it seems that they are playing by themselves. I also learned that children
really do learn from playing like sounds, touch, taste, motion, etc. I also
learned that even the slightest adult interaction could affect a child’s learning
like when the adult told Child K to stop and after that, the child never went
back to the car. Also that if the adults at least interacted with the children by
labeling and describing the toys, colors, etc. Can increase their language
skills.
b. The first recommendation for the group is to interact with the children by
labeling and describing the toys, colors, actions etc. So that the children can
start to make little connections and this will increase their language skills.
The second recommendation for the group is that the adults not stop the
children play because it stops their learning to where they do not want to
play with anymore. The last suggestion I would give the adults is to not
overwhelm the children with too much toys and add in some household
items so that may explore more and feel more comfortable.