I believe she will enjoy cooking because she has a toy kitchen and cooker in her room and Aysia enjoys playing with this.
Observations:
When I went to visit Aysia she was very excited when I had told her we were making cakes, she followed my instructions clearly but when she found it hard to mix the ingredients together when it was getting sticky and more hard to mix she asked me for help. She copied off the box to see how she would decorate the cakes and she followed the images accurately. When we were ready to put them in the oven she counted how many we had made. I’d opened the oven and she’d felt the heat of the oven and told me to make sure I had gloves on or I’d get burnt. Aysia asked could we make them again one day, so this shows that she enjoyed making them. She is good at using her hands and co-ordinating with hands, fingers and brain.
I told her that they will be 10minutes to cook and she told me when 10miniutes had gone, so this proves that she has a good sense of maths and numbers. I explained to her though that they will be ready when the big finger reaches a certain number on the clock. She had then told me when it had got there. She knew not to touch them when they had been taken out the oven.
Emotional Development:
Aysia was happy making cakes and enjoyed it very much. The expressions on her face were showing happiness and enjoyment. She likes to cook and was very pleased with what she had accomplished. She wanted people to taste what she had made so that they could tell her that the cakes tasted very nice.
Social Development:
Aysia got on well with me as usual. Aysia talked a lot and didn’t want to do it on her own, she wanted to share everything. She was very excited to show her parents what she’d made. She had no problems asking for help when needed.
Intellectual Development:
Aysia understood the concept of heat. Her language skills have enhanced which is brilliant for a four year old.
Physical Development:
Aysia used her fine manipulative skills in baking the cakes, as she was mixing very fast and picking up the pictures of Tom and Jerry to spreading the icing on the cakes.
Evaluation:
I was practically correct in my expectations because I know Aysia pretty well now and have made a good bond with her so I know what I expect from her. She was well behaved like I said she would be in the expectations. She likes to bake cakes and she has asked me could we do them again.
She was more excited then I expected her to be and I think that was because it was her first time to make them and she knew that she could eat them afterwards and she enjoyed eating them.
I think the toy kitchen in her bedroom had encouraged her to want to do it for real life.
