Teaching Class

This is a picture from when my group taught class, this is when we had the other people in the class try to use various items to take beads, beans, and other small objects from a plate filled with rice.

This was to show how hard it can be for young children to pick up small objects. Because the children are developing their muscles it is often hard for them to use various objects for usage.

In this picture the student was cheating by getting the bead onto the toothpick, some children would try but get frustrated in a short amount of time and end up using their fingers to pick up the items from the plate. That is why many children until they reach the age of 3-5 use their fingers in order to eat and not use their silverware. This all links back to the physical development of the child. Children when they are first born they cannot hold up their heads or do anything of the like. It is not for several weeks they can begin to control their muscles on their own. It takes a while for children to develop their fine motor skills and muscles.

As adults we have fully developed motor skills so that is the reason we had the others in the class to use tooth picks as chopsticks trying to pick up the items in the paper plate to show them how hard it is for children to use chopsticks.

As I think about this I realize how easy it is for me to use my motor skills while I should really think about how hard it is for the children where I work to do the same things I can do. I understand that many of them cannot read and also that they have not completely developed their motor skills.

Children are constantly learning new things throughout their young life and their early life is most key to all of their education. Young children are often interested in learning new things daily and are constantly asking why and what.