When observing the kindergarten students I was very intrigued at how the teachers handled the student’s constant questions and statements. When reading a storybook to the class students would yell out what they thought would happen next, question the story, and try to relate to the story with things that they have experienced. Even though most of what they yelled out was irrelevant or wrong the teacher would acknowledge each comment. She would never say they their comments weren’t helpful or try to correct them, instead, she would try to relate to what they were saying and connect it to the story. This made each student really happy. They felt like they were helping and would keep trying to add more things. This response from the teacher helps the students industry a lot. It lets them show off their knowledge.

When observing the 3-4-year-olds play time it was a very different experience. The students seemed unable to keep focused on one activity. Kids would very actively participate in something for about 5 minutes at most. In that time something else would catch their I and they would switch to another activity. If they didn’t switch they would stop working and look around at what others were doing. Or like one little girl they would put their head down and take a nap on their partly finished drawing. The teaches would try to help hold a child’s interest in activity by sitting with them and giving them more ideas on what to did with their project. Or by walking them through the process of the activity. The initiative is shown in these kids. They want to try everything in the room and show them that can do it.