Child Observation Form - B Certificate III Early Childhood Education

This assignment presents a completed Child Observation Form B, part of a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education. The form details observations of a 2-year-old child named Alisha, focusing on her interaction skills, language skills, and play. The observation notes Alisha's strong attachment to her father and her communication style, which includes both verbal and non-verbal cues. It also highlights her constructive play and the parent's feedback regarding her behavior, including her reluctance to interact with peers and occasional aggressive tendencies stemming from being an only child who receives excessive care. The overall comments suggest that Alisha's close relationship with her father and less interaction with her mother contribute to her observed behaviors. Desklib provides this assignment as a study resource, offering solved examples and past papers for students.

Child Observation Form - B
Certificate III in Early Childhood Education
Assessment Workbook 4
Child’s Name: Alisha
Age: 2 years
Use this form to record your interaction with children 2 years old and above. Follow the
instructions below:
1. With the assistance of the parent, interact with the child.
2. Gather more information from the parent’s own experiences with the child
3. Record relevant stories or anecdotal information from the parent
4. Use the form below to document your observations:
Observation Guide
Frequency
Comments
Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
INTERACTION SKILLS
Child looks at the parent × She is attached to her parents
Child shifts attention from an object or
person to the parent
(demonstrates joint attention)
× Her attention gets easily
distracted with new things.
Child initiates to the parent
(verbally or non-verbally) × She communicated with both
verbal and nonverbal way
Child responds to the parent
(verbally or non-verbally) × She uses both ways to
communicate with her parents
Child’s interaction style:
×Social | Reluctant | Passive | Own Agenda
Comments:
She is good in communication skill and try to interact using both verbal and non-verbal way.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Gestures:
a) Child uses a few gestures (e.g.
showing, waving bye-bye) × She does not interact with her
friends using gestures.
b) Child uses lots of gestures,
including pointing × She mostly use pointing thing
when she communicate.
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Child Observation Form - B
Certificate III in Early Childhood Education
Assessment Workbook 4
c) Child imitates gestures × She does not like to mimic
others.
Single words:
a) Child uses a few single words × She find difficult to
communicate in full sentence.
b) Child uses lots of single words × She is young and often use single
words to communicate.
c) Child imitates single words × She is quick learner
Single words combined with gestures:
a) Child uses complementary gestures
(a word + a gesture that represents
the same thing. For example, child
says “Daddy” when pointing to his
dad.)
× She is close to her father more
than the mother.
b) Child uses supplementary gestures
(a word + a gesture that adds new
information to the message. For
example, child says “Daddy” and
points to the ball he wants.)
× She never use gestures to
communicate with her fathers.
Word combinations:
a) Child uses a few word
combinations ×
When she is around friend she
show aggressive attitude and use
few words to communicate.
b) Child uses lots of word
combinations ×
Sometime when she is in good
mood she uses lots of word
combination.
c) Child imitates word combinations × She does not like to copy other.
Child’s stage of communication:
Discoverer | ×Communicator | First Words User | Combiner
Comments:
From the observation it was noted that she is good communicator and tries to talk with her
parent using both gesture and verbally though in few words. This reflect that she is quick
learner. However, her attitude towards her friends is not appreciable.
PLAY
Child’s stage of play:
Functional Play| ×Constructive Play | Pretend Play
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Child Observation Form - B
Certificate III in Early Childhood Education
Assessment Workbook 4
Comments:
It was noted that she is active in playing mostly with soft toys and build new structure from the
other things she possesses. However, she get distracted easily and does not pay attention tpo
things she does not like to do.
PARENT FEEDBACK
Provide examples of relevant stories or anecdotal information the child’s parent shared with you
about the child:
Investigating with her parents, they shared that Alisha is less interactive with child of her own
age as she may feel insecure. Alisha is the only child they have due to too care and love towards
her has made her disobedient, aggressive, reluctant and stubborn. She does not listen to anyone
and loves to do thing of her own wish. When she is restricted for nay activities she show
aggressive behaviour.
OVERALL COMMENTS:
From the observation, it was noted that Alisha is the only child and dearest for her father. The
excess care and love from her father has made a strong connection between them, but she is less
interactive with her mother who stop her doing mischievous activities. This is the reason for her
aggressive behaviour.
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