Observations
When Sam found out that we were going to the park she got really excited.
As soon as we got there she immediately ran over to the swings and she needed me to start her off on the swing by pushing her once and then she used her legs to make her keep moving. After about two or three minutes she wanted to get off the swing and she asked me to get her off because the swing was a little bit high as her feet didn’t touch the floor when she sat on it. She then wanted to go on the slide and ran straight over to it. When she was climbing up the ladder to the slide, another little girl came over to the slide and started climbing up the ladder iswell behind Sam (She looked younger than Sam and I don’t think she was above 2 years old). When Sam saw her behind her on the ladder she started screaming at the top of her voice saying ‘No get off!’ and just stood there in the middle of the ladder blocking the way and crying.
After that Sam went on the climbing frame, I had to tell her where to put her foot as she got a bit stuck when she was near to the top. When she got to the top she had to slide down at the other side and she did that with no problem at all and really enjoyed it. She went on it again a few times and after that she didn’t need help with co-ordination and where to put her feet etc. She then played on the seesaw with another girl on the other side and they were both laughing and started talking.
We then played ‘Simon Says’ and Sam really enjoyed it and was able to understand and follow my instructions e.g when I said ‘Simon says hop up to the tree and back’ she was successfully able to do the right thing. After that she felt tired and we walked back home. It wasn’t long after she had got home that she fell asleep.
with some other children and made a friend on the seesaw who she then started playing with in the park.
Intellectual Development
At the park whenever Sam needed something she did ask for it and her language skills are well developed because her speech was completely understandable. When we were playing ‘Simon says’ she used her thinking skills very well to see if she was actually supposed to do the thing that I said e.g-If I said ‘jump’ then she wasn’t supposed to do anything because I didn’t say ‘Simon says Jump’ etc.
Physical Development
I managed to study a lot of Sams physical development –especially gross motor skills in a lot of this visit. She was able to skip,jump,crawl,climb and use her arms and legs well. She has also got good hand and eye co-ordination because she was able to through a ball properly in a straight line. I think this is because most of her cousins are boys and they like playing ball games a lot so I think she might have learnt from them.