Observation of a Preschool Child I. Introduction 1. The c

1. The class is a group of preschool children, ages three to five, with learning disabilities. The chosen child, Molly, is five years old. She attends this facility, Pathfinder Readiness in the mornings and attends regular kindergarten in the afternoon. Pathfinder Readiness is a non-profit agency providing a wide range of intervention, remedial, and compensatory services for learning disabled preschool children.

2. The observation takes place in the main indoor classroom-playroom for the preschool group. The room consists of a rather large space subdivided into play areas for differing purposes. One end of the room is set up for dramatic play with a doll house and child-sized furniture arranged on an area rug. Behind this dramatic play area is a cabinet and counter with scientific things and an aquarium for the children to enjoy. Other areas of the room include a library-reading corner with another rug surrounded by low book shelves. Elsewhere in the room are tables surrounded by chairs--work areas for a variety of different activities. The teacher's desk is off to one side so that she may observe rather unobtrusively.

3. Present on this particular day are the head teacher, an assistant teacher, a visiting father, myself, and twelve children. The head teacher is occupied with a group of children constructing with wooden blocks. She is not helping exactly, merely conferring with the children as they work out their aims,

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circle made of scribbled circles, about four and one-half inches in diameter. She seems to be relaxed as she does the scribbling with black. The next color she selects is green with which she fills in the black circle, much like the other circle, only larger. The black circle and its green center are rather elongated, and Molly is careful with both inner circles to stay within her own circle outlines, especially on the black one. Molly picks up a yellow crayon, takes off some of the covering paper, and works with it on the side, making a long wide yellow stripe that goes completely from one side of the paper to the other, about an inch wide. She seems to be progressively relaxing as she "gets into it." I notice that with the yellow crayon she is using more large muscle movement to work the color. She momentarily stands to have more freedom of movement with her arm as she sweeps the yellow from side to side. At this moment, the children in the block group become a little louder as a tall structure topples over, and Molly's attention is momentarily diverted. She returns her attention to the drawing and now selects a purple crayon. On one side of the broad yellow shape she makes a purple shape, snuggling it up to the yel

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