Daycare Week Eleven

Today, I entered the classroom and the children have just been released to free time. They start to run in different directions to play in certain areas of which they are interested in. some go to the cooking area, drawing tables, the bone dig out, and some even go into the quiet room which isn’t so quiet. They have all started to gain their focus on what they are wanting to play with for the day. I decide that I will go into the quiet room and interact with the children.

A little boy, the age of five catches my attention. He is playing with mini frogs on a mat card. He is by himself and really just engaging in a conversation by himself. I go and sit with him. He starts to introduce himself, he tells me how old he is first and then his name. I tell him my name, and then I start to engage in more conversation with him. While we are talking about what he is doing a little girl comes up and sits with us. I ask her what her name and is and her age, I learn that she is two years younger than the boy, but they speak perfectly great English that is understandable.

The three of us are playing with the mini frogs, the little girl stands on a chair and starts saying her frog jumped the highest and holds it higher in the air. The boy does the same thing, and then we just laugh. The boy suggest that we line up the different color of frogs on the mat card and see who cold get to the topic of the mat card first. Soon the girl get bored and leaves us, and another boy comes and sits next to us. The first boy tells me that the new boy that comes and sits with us doesn’t like him. The new boy immediately starts to pick with the other boy and try to bully him. Immediately I put an end to it and send him to the head teacher.

Soon it is candle time, so everyone goes and sits in a circle, we are to be very quiet, but we do have children who are talking. We wait for them to be quiet and start to do some slow yoga stretches. The children then are told to be quiet and listen to what they hear. As soon as we go over what everyone has heard, a young boy is told to blow out the candle and then they are instructed to clean the areas of which they were playing at.

After cleaning, it is time for them to do act it out. everyone is able to act out a story, and they are all excited. They are acting out three of the children stories. After they finished with that activity they are instructed to sing along with one of the teachers. After doing so many songs two boys are picked to go wash their hands and start help set of snack tine. The other children are listening to the teacher read a book. While they are listening, some are tapped on their shoulder and told to wash their hands and go eat snack.

Shortly after they have started eating snacks, they are just all talking to one another. They have gotten some good fruit that everyone seems to like today. Some boys get into a little altercation, it is stopped and they get into a little trouble. They are separated from the rest of the class, and told to be by themselves. After a couple of minutes the children parents start to come. They start to sign themselves out, but today the teacher and the parents are talking to each other about the children and their attitude about certain new things that have started to engage in.