Childs Name: Natalie

Age: 2;1
Date: November 28, 2016
Time: 4:10 to 4:30 pm
Observer: Jaimie
Location: Natalies home Dining Room

Areas of Development Observed:

Physical fine motor: stacking and unstacking, picking up pretend juice
Social demonstrates sharing
Emotional content, does not get upset with spilled juice
Cognitive problem solves with spilled juice, uses imagination
Language asks questions, five word sentences, narrates actions
Creative no creative development observed

Anecdotal Record:
Independent Activity
Natalie uses her whole hand to grab cups one at a time to place them carefully on

the window sill. As she places the colourful cups down, she softly says who each cup

is for. Cup for Jaimie, cup for Robbie, cup for Jeffrey, cup for Nadsy. Natalie slowly

restacks the cups on the window sill, picks the stack up with both hands and puts it

on the floor. She takes the green cup off the top of the stack, holds it out and says

Jaimie, do you want this cup? She places the cup in front of me, grabs a yellow

cup and says This is for Jeffrey. Natalie puts the cup down and picks up a blue cup.

She pretends to drink out of the cup and makes a slurping noise. Its icky juice!

She then puts the cup against her face so that it covers her whole mouth and

squeals loudly into it. Natalie puts the cup down and says Theres no more juice. It

spilled. Gotta get some more juice. She uses her whole hand to pick up the pretend

juice from the floor and put it into the cup. She smiles and exclaims loudly Theres

some more juice! Natalie starts to stack the cups and says Were all done drinking

juice. She picks up the stack of cups and stands up to place the cups onto the
window sill. Natalie carefully unstacks them, then turns quickly to look at her

mother as she walks into the kitchen. Natalie turns to the cups and picks up a pink

one. Natalie holds it out towards her mother, smiles broadly and squeals Mommy!

Jaimie brought cups!

Interpretations:

Natalie seems to enjoy playing with the cups and using her imagination to drink and

spill juice.

She is demonstrating her learning of sharing by assigning cups for her brothers and

me.

Natalie appears to be excited by receiving new objects and exploring the properties

by stacking and making noises into them.

She is asking questions and using a variety of sentence lengths.

Actions:

Provide Natalie with different sized cups and objects like rocks, gems, sand, and

marbles to put in the cups.

Let Natalie pour water into the cups and play with water.

Talk to Natalie about the colours of the cups as she plays with them to build on her

knowledge of colours.

Show Natalie different ways to stack the cups such as in a pyramid or one right side

up and the next upside down.