Classroom Observation Paper

While attending my internship I have observed the students using centers and other classroom objects that help develop their (PLACES) skills. Physical Developmental and Health, Language Development, Approaches to Learning, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, and Social Development. When I arrive at my site the students are sitting on the carpet doing some type of activities, it could be saying a word and the students have to sound it out and try to spell it with the letters they hear. Maybe they are doing a counting activity or a reading activity it just depends on what the teacher wants to do that morning. Some Physical Developmental centers that the students us during the class is their writing station their art station and their

In the listening station the students listen to a book that the teacher has picked out for them that has a lot of color and words that they have been going over and reviewing. There are some activities that the students participate in that help with Approaches to Learning one day the teacher was going over the growth of an apple how it starts out as a seed and grows into a flower then grows into an apple. They also learned about the apple they learned about the flesh and skin of an apple and where the seeds are in an apple and about them stem and leaf of an apple and the student would answer the problem and they were so excited about it. Some Cognitive Developmental activities that the students do are sitting on the carpet and do math problems with the teacher, there would be questions on the smartboard like how many balls would you have I took 5 away for the 10 you have. They also have a station where they would match the capital letter with the lower case letter or they would see a picture of an object and match it to a letter they are supposed to