Observation play Essay

Kiahi a boy of about 3 years old was influenceing alone stood on a small hill of dirt , at first it looked kindred her was just looking at the other kids chance. When I kept looking at him to see if he was just difference to continue to doing nothing, just now watch the other children I noticed that he was standing there like a solider tall and with determination on his face. With his hand to his forehead looking about as the other children ran around. afterward(prenominal) a time I see that he is pointing to his class conjoin at random and looks to be giving directions, morelike orders, of most sort, although no one is paying attention. aft(prenominal) giving off orders in a solider like manner he nods his head, as though fit with himself and his team though it was just him play, and pulls out some kind of nigrify/sliver rectangular key chain object out of his garb pocket. He clicks on it, as if it had scarcetons, brings it up to his ear and talks and nods, hes using it as a cell phone. After he is done he clicks it again to end the call and puts it back to his pocket. past he just runs off the hill and goesplays at the play structure, as if what he just did never happened.At first I conceit Kiahi was engaging in unoccupied play, because to me it looked as if he was doing nothing at all but just looking at what everyone else was doing. As I kept observing him it looked to him that his was doing solitary play. Playing out a type of someone with authorization giving out orders, and taking calls. It was solitary because no one else was engaging with him in is play even though he pointed out to other kids when giving off orders no one paying him attention.Sophia a girl of about 4 years old with a temperament of a being shy and quite, wasnt playing with anybody else. She was disinclined to join anybody for play. After a while Sophia looks to have acquired a play mate Elena a soft spoken 3 years old, though in some occasions I did hear her be a l ittle louder towards other kids, they are playing in the sand blow. It looks like they are playing kitchen cooking, serving, cutting and cleaning. Throughout the play not a word was spoken, but they seemed to communicatein their own silent way.After a while Sophia and Elena moved to play with the balls, when Sophia would turn her back on the ball and it rolled away from her instead of calling out to Sophia to bind the ball Elena runs after the ball and gives it back to Sophia in her hands and points to the baskets target her. In a silent gesture to throw the ball at the basket. I found these girls interesting because Ive observed them for a while during the morning time when dropped off up until free play outside.I know for a fact that bothgirls speak Elena even yells at times when kids dont pay attention for following the rules. Sophia is impertinently to the pre-school program at Head Start and cries when her Mom, as Ms. Perla informed me, leaves her but just for a few minutes . It takes Sophia a few hours to get into play with actual words being spoken. Elena is a sweet little that free from her little group of friends to play with Sophia and to me it looked as if Elena understood Sophia not lacking to speak, seeing as Elena ever attempted to saya champion word to her.At first Sophia was engaging in solitary play, playing on her own on the play structure. In the sand box Sophia and Elena cooperative playing, even though they didnt say a word, the worked unitedly to prepare, cook and serve a meal and clean up after they were done. They had a common goal in playing kitchen. After that they vie with the balls which turned to associative play still playing together but without a common goal because Sophia wasnt as engaged as Elena in trying to play basketball.