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Having to just observe everything around you then go back and write the notes was not easy. You can miss small details that had happened and those could be important to know. Having to also watch five children made it harder because you are constantly trying to watch all the children when they are all around the room. It showed how teachers should be a good observer because we were only watching five children and they could be watching twenty-five kids. I used some subjective language when writing my observations but, I had a control of it and my observations wasn’t all subjective, most was objective just stating what the child did. For example, I said in my observation, “Child 4 sat at lunch with a group and was goofy.” This is subjective

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