Observation 8

I arrive and see some children playing with puzzles, some children coloring, some children listening to stories that the teacher is reading to them, and one boy is getting dropped off my his mom but he doesn’t want to stay. She walks in carrying him because he is still tired. The mom explains how he didn’t get much sleep last night so that is why he is tired. He is crying and doesn’t want to play with the other kids. The teacher has to pick him up and hold him while his mom leaves the class. She asks him if he wants to sit and color, he says no. She then asks him if he wants to lay down and he responds “yes”. She tells him okay I’m going to lay your bed out for you while the other kids get here so you can rest a little. She lets him get a little rest while the other children continue to play. Once more children arrived he heard the class getting louder and he got up. Once he rested his eyes for a little while, he was in a better mood. He began interacting with the other children and sat in the art area and picked up a marker and started scribbling in the paper. He moved to different areas of the class and played with puzzles and then ran around chasing the boys.            An activity I would use is dress up. I would have all the children pick a costume from the costume area and let them dress up for the day as the character or super hero they would like to be. This activity would allow them to use their imagination through out the whole day because they would get into characters and role play. This can motivate them to use dramatic play if they want to reenact something they have seen at home or on TV. They can switch costumes in between if they get bored of being one person.