Introduction

Hello, my name is Esrah Kayed, for my senior grad project I worked with young children at a daycare called, “A place where your child can learn”.

Experience• It was my first day, I got to meet all the little

children in the group I choose to do my project with five to six year olds. The first day there I talked about myself and asked about their names and got to know a little about what their daily routines are and schedule of what they do.

The second day there I gathered the children together and read them a book called “Hercules” they didn’t pay much attention about it because they kept asking to see the pictures the whole time of me reading for them. We exercised together after sitting for a while talking about the story. Then took a little break and ate some snacks. We watched a movie together and took a nap.

• The next day, we all felt like having some fun, we put up some long white papers and got different colors of paint and decided to paint about what makes each happy and smile. The children painted their mothers, some painted gardens, some painted rainbows, and some just mixed colors together. After that we sat together and tried to teach them how to write their names, which is really important.

Summary/ Reflection

• This was honestly a great experience for me, I’ve always wanted to try to work with little children and have fun with them. They were a little pain, in ways where they wouldn’t listen and it would be hard sometimes to get their attention.