Child development vist 3

Date: November 25th

Time: 6:45-7.30 pm

Age: 4 years 2 months

Place: Jack’s house

People present: Jack and I

Aims and planning:

For this visit I plan to visit Jack during his bedtime to study his bedtime routine. I thought this would be a good visit to do as it involves physical, intellectual, social and emotional development and these should be easy to observe throughout this visit. First I will make sure this visit is convenient with Jack’s mum and find a suitable day. I will go around Jack’s house 15 minutes before his bedtime routine starts so I can speak to him about his day and again get him comfortable with being with me (as visits are only every month Jack may be a bit shy as first). Firstly I will ask Jack to say goodnight to his Mum and Dad, we will then walk up the stairs and at this time I will be observing the way he does it. At the top of the stairs I will ask Jack’s Mum to put a line of any sort across the landing to see can follow this line. I will then go in Jack’s room with him and ask him to put his pyjamas on. Whilst he is doing this I will observe his ability to get undressed and undressed by himself. When Jack is changed I will ask him to choose a book and I will read this book to him asking him questions as I go along. Throughout the visit I will be seeing how Jack finds it being with me and not his Mum at bedtime. When Jack is asleep I will tell Jack’s Mum and Dad how the visit went and say goodbye.

Expectations:

Physical Development

I expect Jack to be able to run up the stairs in adult fashion as he should of improved since visit one. I expect him to be able to walk along the straight line maybe only wobbling once on the way.

Intellectual Development

Jack should be able to ‘follow story books with eyes and identify words and pictures’. I expect him to do this as his Mum said in the introductory visit he like books a lot.

Emotional Development

I will look to see if jack is showing any emotion towards the book such ...

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Expectations:

Physical Development

I expect Jack to be able to run up the stairs in adult fashion as he should of improved since visit one. I expect him to be able to walk along the straight line maybe only wobbling once on the way.

Intellectual Development

Jack should be able to ‘follow story books with eyes and identify words and pictures’. I expect him to do this as his Mum said in the introductory visit he like books a lot.

Emotional Development

I will look to see if jack is showing any emotion towards the book such as laughter as in visit one he did not show much emotion but in visit two he did. I expect him not to show many emotions towards the book as I think it will be several months until he learns to show his emotions towards things such as books. I expect Jack to be a bit upset when he finds out his Mum or Dad are not putting him to bed but I am not sure as his emotions have alternated in visits 1 and 2.

Social Development

I expect Jack to be a bit upset at first as his Mum or Dad are not putting him to bed and he is used to them doing so, but as soon as he gets upstairs he should be fine, as he doesn’t usually mind being with me in other visits.

These expectations correspond to the norm stated in ‘Child Development – birth to 8 years’ by Carolyn Meggitt and Gerald Sunderland and ‘Child Care and Development-4th edition’ by Pamela Minett.

Observations:

I organized with Jack’s Mum for the visit to be on a Thursday, and the time I said she agreed with. I arrived at Jack’s house at quarter to seven in the evening and he knew what was going to happen, as his Mum must of told him. This was fine though as she said he was fine with it.

Physical Development

Jack run up the stairs as I expected and run past the straight line that had been put down at the top of the stairs. I asked him to come back I told him what to do. He walked along the line and run straight to his bedroom where I asked him to change into his pyjamas ready for bed. At first he started playing with a bucket of toys but when I asked him again a bit more firmly he did it straight away. He took his clothes off but then couldn’t get one of his socks off and he asked me to help. He then had trouble doing one of his buttons up as I watched him but he didn’t ask me to help he carried on concentrating.

Intellectual Development

Jack chose what book he wanted and it was a ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ one. In the story one of Thomas’ friends crashed and Thomas helped pull him back to the wok yard to get fixed. Jack spoke a lot throughout the book, saying things such as ‘ look what he’s done’ and words such as ‘silly’ and ‘plonk’ and he turned each page for me when I had finished it. When I finished to book I closed it and Jack opened it back up pointing at pictures telling me about them.

Emotional Development

Jack gasped when Thomas’ friend crashed in the book even though he had read it many time before. He recognized that the train that crashed was crying and told me then he made crying noises to show me what crying was.

Social Development

Jack was comfortable with me throughout the visit and didn’t seem to mind me putting him to bed. He spoke to me a lot throughout the visit about the book and his nursery school and seemed to enjoy the book I read to him.

Evaluation:

Physical Development

Jack has improved from visit one and run up the stairs in an adult-like way. He ‘walked along a straight line’ just wobbling a few times as he should do at his age. He got changed with only a little help getting one of his socks off. I did not expect Jack to have any difficulty with these things, as he is a very active child as I have found from my first two visits.

Intellectual Development

Jack followed the story and didn’t get distracted he pointed out many pictures and told me about them but he didn’t seem to recognize any words. This is slightly under the ‘norm’ for his age and I didn’t expect this as he loved books, he should be able to ‘follow words with eyes and recognize words’.

Emotional Development

Jack knows what emotions are and laughed quite a lot but didn’t show them towards the book. I think Jack is too young to understand books in that way anyway and maybe this was the wrong way to observe his emotional development. One thing I did observe in this visit though was Jack getting frustrated when he couldn’t do up one of his buttons on his pajama top this is the ‘norm’ for his age ‘getting dressed alone but needing help with things such as buttons and laces.’ This is because many children at Jack’s age are learning new things and some find things easier when they learn themselves.

Social Development

Jack always enjoys being with me and this visit was no change. He was very talkative as always and I think he is always going to be like this towards adults. He has a lot of adult members in the family and this might be why.

The ‘norms in this evaluation correspond to the ‘norms’ stated in ‘Child Development’ byt ‘Brennand, Fairclough, Hall, Nicholson and Rees’.

Conclusion:

Jack is always an active child so I would like to make my next visit, again, very physical. In this visit he was above and at the ‘norm’ in everything except intellectual development. He didn’t recognize any words in the book. I do not know why this is because he has many books read to him and attends nursery 3 days a week and does a lot of reading there. To have another look at books and words with Jack I will include them in my next visit.