Aims: I am going to observe Aysia's play and social skills. To achieve this I am going to play the game "snap" with Aysia and her friend Aaliyah. Also I am going to observe Aysia's intellectual skills

GCSE Health and Social Care

Name of child: Aysia Chopra

Date: 24th March 2005

Time: 3.30pm – 4.30pm

Age: 4 years 3months old

Place: Aysia’s home

People present: Aysia, her friend, me and her father

Aims:

I am going to observe Aysia’s play and social skills. To achieve this I am going to play the game “snap” with Aysia and her friend Aaliyah. Also I am going to observe Aysia’s intellectual skills by seeing if Aysia recognises specific colours and numbers.

Expectations:

I expect that Ayisa will get the hang of playing “snap” easily and will wait for her turn patiently. It says in the GCSE child development CGP the revision guide age 4: “the child is sociable, friendly, affectionate and can share, but is independent and self – willed.” I expect Aysia to be able to do this, as she is usually average at social development. I also believe she will recognise most colours and numbers.

Observations:

When I arrived at Aysia’s home she recognised me but sat on the chair and just smiled she seemed a bit shy because she hadn’t seen me in a long while. I wanted to get on with the study so I went up to her and said “hello do you want to play snap” she replied yes, she sounded very excited to play this game. She told her friend to play too. Immediately she seemed comfortable around me.

This was a good way to see her social skills as I could see she liked to play in a group and was very patient while waiting for her turn.

Aysia recognises colours, shapes and numbers as she knew when to hit the deck of cards when we were playing. I purposely asked her what the colours on the cards were to see what she knew and she recognised them all. She could hold up a conversation and talked whilst playing. She also likes to share her toys which I thought was good for a child her age.

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This was a good way to see her social skills as I could see she liked to play in a group and was very patient while waiting for her turn.

After we had played a game of snap she was in a hurry to show me her new pet cat and she told me all the colours after I asked her. She is very friendly, loving, and well mannered child. She is very active and loud when she feels comfortable, but there’s also a quiet side to her as she was very tired after and had to have her comfort toy, her “cuddly bunny rabbit teddy”.

Emotional Development:

Aysia is a very cheerful, lively and very friendly child. She did not get jealous of others and wasn’t angry just disappointed when she’d lost a game and wanted to play on so that she could have a chance to win. She also behaves very well and is very polite. She is a very happy child and enjoys the company of other people; she smiled a lot through out this visit.

Social Development:

Aysia’s social development was good as she acknowledged taking turns when playing the game ‘Snap’. She also interacts very well with other children too; it says in the GCSE child development CGP the revision guide age 4: “the child is sociable, friendly, affectionate and can share, but is independent and self – willed.” At 4 years old Aysia is able to do all the above.

Physical Development:

I couldn’t successfully examine Aysia’s physical development as we weren’t in an appropriate environment were she was able to run around, but she was able to use her fine manipulative skills whilst using her hands and fingers when playing with the cards.

Intellectual Development:

Aysia used her cognitive skills to recognise the concepts of number and colour. She speaks very fluently, I can understand her easily, and she understands instructions. She also tells a lot of stories of what she has done in the past, like last weekend or even yesterday or what she did for lunch today. According to the Lonsdale the essentials for child development it says “4-5 years – able to tell long complicated stories” Also “ a child 4 years of age -is aware of past, present and future”. These both show that Aysia’s long story is in the past, which she is supposed to be able to do.

Evaluation:

I believe my first visit went as I wished it was ‘successful’ with no problems. I was a bit worried at first as I hadn’t seen Aysia for a long time, as I haven’t been to her visit her in a long time I was afraid that she would have forgotten me and not have wanted to play or co-operate.

I expected that Aysia would get the hang of playing ‘snap’ easily and would wait for her turn patiently. It says in the GCSE child development CGP the revision guide age 4: “the child is sociable, friendly, affectionate and can share, but it’s independent and self – willed.” I expected Aysia to be able to do this, as she is usually average at social development. I also think she will recognise most colours and numbers. This proved correct due to my observations.

I was able to study the aspects of Aysia’s development which I wanted to, on this visit. I observed her social skills when playing with other children and I think her skills are quite developed for a child her age. I also got to observe her intellectual development, colour and number recognition which I was very impressed by. I learned that children at the age of 4 are able to co-operate as I thought she would argue with me and would have seemed spoilt but she was very kind.