Observation and Analysis of Child A's Development - CHCECE013

This assignment focuses on the observation and analysis of a two-year-old child's development, drawing upon a scenario where the student has been caring for the child for three months. The project requires the creation of three observational records: an anecdotal record, a learning story, and a jotting. Each observation must be free from bias and include an analysis of the child's strengths, weaknesses, and developmental stages, considering the child's interactions, interests, and reactions within the play environment. The analysis should align with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). The assignment highlights the child's engagement with play materials, color recognition, social interactions, and eating habits. The student identifies the child's strengths such as learning abilities and color identification, while also noting areas needing improvement, like distinguishing between living and non-living things, response time, and adapting to new environments. The project emphasizes how these observations can be used to assess and support the child's development across different stages.

CHCECE013 Assessment 2 Question 1
Introduction to Assessment 2
Learner Instructions
Scenario
You care for a girl called Child A, for the purpose of this project.
Child A is two (2) years of age and from a Chinese cultural background. You have been
responsible for caring for this child for past three (3) months and have written some
documentation about the child.
Recently Child A’s Dad has asked to look at the documentation and information you
have gathered about their child and discuss some questions.
You decide to share some information you have gathered about Child A with her Dad
and show how it links with planning.
Question 1 A
Question
Please create three (3) hypothetical observations that either discuss Child A’s
interest, strengths, or requirements:
 One anecdotal record
 One learning story
 One jotting
For each of the above observations:
 Ensure the information gathered is recorded in a manner that is free from
bias, and negative labelling
 Have an analysis for each of the observations that may include:
1. Aspects of child’s development
2. Child’s knowledge, ideas, abilities, and interests
3. Child’s social interactions
4. Child’s reactions to play environment
Please use the EYLF learning outcomes to guide you in the writing and analysis.

Answer
Anecdotal Record
It has been identifying that A loves playing with drama material every and treat doll as
human being. Along with this, she dresses the doll up and play with her and sometimes talks.
I have asked A with will you allow me to play with the doll, and she immediately responded
with yes. She responded well to my second question regarding body parts on doll. The
strength of A is good learning abilities and it understand meaning of words. One of its
weaknesses is it is not able to identify differences living and nonliving things.
One learning story: From last few months A has been identifying different colours within
the environment. I have experiment colour mixing with A and while painting I have made use
of colours like blue, red and yellow. While painting, I have asked A regarding which colour I
am using and the response of patient was good but it has taken lot of time in understanding.
Strength of A is identifying colours properly and able to answer them when asked. Although
weakness is answer was not quick and patient took lot of time to respond.
One jotting: I have observed the body language of A while playing with other people and it
takes her time to understand them first when meeting stranger like it feels more nervous with
them. On the other hand, it feels more positive and smile often with people she is familiar
with. Also, the eating habits of A is still needed more improvement as its hard for her to eat
by herself. Strength of A is collaboration with others and try to communicate with them but
patient weakness is not adapting with the changing environment quickly.
On the basis of above discussed recording and observation methods, it can be said that
jotting observation can help out in measuring age development. 3-4 years’ age of children
can write down and cleanliness can help out in measuring age development. In regard to
development stage, it can be said that firstly, students learn to observe and do same hand
movements then they learn to speak, then reading and then writing. So, above observation
like learning story and jotting can help out in measuring development stage of children.