Child Care

Child’s Name: Matthew Storti,

DOB: Dec 20th 2005.

Age: 2.5 years

Observer: Rupam Singh

Date: July 21th, 2008

Time: 10:20 am to 10:50 am.

Activity: Free play time at construction table.

M.S was playing with the colorful large legos after spending 15 minutes he stacked them together randomly, which looked like a castle. One of his friends got attracted to see that castle, wanted to touch the castle too. M.S didn’t want him to, he grabbed the whole Legos castle around his arms to take the castle with him somewhere else, he got unbalanced and banged himself to the wall and he dropped his castle on the floor, and the castle got broke and legos got scattered all over on the floor. “Oh No!!!!!!!!!!!” he exclaimed with sorrow and started collecting them. His friends came to help him, they together tried to fix the legos but after trying hard for a while they were unsuccessful to make castle same as it was before and his friend left him alone. After few minutes M.S also gave up and moved to the kitchen center, he took a cup and pretended to turning on the tap of the sink and fills the cup and drank water.

After playing with the cup and with few other dishes for a while he picked up an ice cream cone and started licking up the ice cream. He exclaimed with joy and eyes wide opened “Ummmm Yammi”.

Teacher said “No licking! We don’t lick our toys, go put that on the counter I need to sanitize It.” he went to the counter and put the ice cream cone on the counter. Teacher said “good listening M.S”.

Then teacher called for the tidy up and M.S started helping tidy up with putting all the toys in the bin that those were belong to. He got a star sticker from the teacher for being a good listener and for being a good helper.

Question: What type of play were children involved in?

Answer: Very first the children were involved in Constructive play. M.S tried hard to make a castle which got broke, he and one of his friend tried to fix the broken Legos castle,...