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Head Start Observation
Bayta Detrick
CCA-101-170
Head Start Observation

Name of Center: Early Childhood Center Lyle School
Date and Time of observation: April 7, 2012. 12:00P.M – 3:00 P.M

1. Education:
What type of activities were the children engaged in during your visit?
The Head Start center I observe is a half-day program. The activities I observe were: children arrival and drop off at school, circle time, reading time, lunch and snacks, free play, gym time, teeth brush, and children getting ready to go home.

Describe in detail what the children were doing.
The children got drop off at school, and one-by-one, start to get on the line to walk into their classroom. At the classroom, each child took his coat off and put it away with their bag pack on their cubby. When finish each child look on a table for his or her file and it wrote his/her name. The children proceed to wash their hand and set on the circle time area for circle time. At circle time the teacher asks each child about their weekend, and one-by-one describe all the activities they did. They sing and play respect to the flag, went over the calendar, the weather, and assigned the duties of each child for the week. After circle time the children wash their hands and start to get ready for lunch, the children who have to help this week on lunch and snack went to the kitchen with the teacher and help brought the lunch, and set up the table. The children and teacher set at the tables and eat lunch. The children have the opportunity to decide what and how much to eat. When they finish the children wash their hands and the teacher told them it was going to be reading time. Each child went to the reading area of the classroom and choose a book to read, each child choose were to set to read.
The class went to the gym to play because it was a raining day and they can go to play outside. The teacher provides the children with tricycles, and balls, so they can play, some children play basketball, others soccer, some drove the

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