Observation of Child's Behavior with Play Dough

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1PSYCHOLOGY
Date: Context: Child
Name:
Age:
Observation:
Jotting
Document a quick
snapshot of the
child’s behaviour
or skill. Write in
past tense and
short sentences.5
jottings make up 1
observation
J1
Piper with three of her peers was seated around a table. A big mass of play dough
was placed in the centre the table. Piper grabbed a big chunk of the play dough and
pointed the same out to the teacher and exclaimed, “play dough.”
J2
Piper rolled the play dough with her hand on the table and made a flat shaped
structure with the play dough. She also tried to made elongated structure by rolling
the play dough piece on the table. When the teacher informed the children that she is
trying to make a pizza out of the play dough and asked “Any body wants pizza?”
piper answered “Yeah.”
J3
Educator 2 had come with plastic stamps. Piper was listening to her attentively when
the work of the stamps was being demonstrated by her. He also tried to use the same
by imitating the action of the educator. Piper was listening to the teacher attentively
when she was explain her how to play with the dough and the stamp.
J4
Piper made a flat structure out of a small dough piece. She showed the same to
educator 2. Educator 2 encouraged her to squeeze the same. Piper being a obedient
child listened to her and performed as being instructed. When educator 2 was
demonstrating her to create a petal, she performed the same (cdmd.qc.ca, 2019).
J5
Piper was focusing completely on how her educator is creating the petals. When one
petal was completed. Piper asked her educator to make another petal. When it comes
to cutting small pieces of play dough piper was able to do the same. However, when
it came to cut out a big chuck from the play dough, piper was nt able to do the same.
Referenced
Interpretation of
the learning:
Skills and/or
 Physical Domain (hand –eye coordination) Piper has demonstrated good
confidence when she was playing with the plastic stamp as well as the