Sandpiper's Daycare Project
My Internship Experience
I was an Intern in the Sandpiper’s Child and Family daycare center in Newport, RI. I started interning there in my third year of college and so far, it has been fun. I get to interact and play with the kids which is one thing i love doing. In the Daycare center, I was placed at the Infant and Preschool room which I both enjoy doing. I assist and help the preschool teacher with activities performed by the kids. Down below is the description of what I have achieved and intend on achieving along my Internship experiences.
Professional Objectives
To practice, understand and learn the ideal processes of pre school care
Activities/Resources
★ Observe and follow direction of preschool care professionals.
★ Observe and follow the practice of good manners of talking, interacting and
behaving with other kids.
★ Practice and uphold health and safety standards.
Evidence
★ Being able to help the preschool kids with activities following help of a supervisor or
teacher present.
★ Being able understand better the process of early childhood development.
★ Also, being able to interact with the preschool kids better when they are performing
activities. Capable of maintaining multiple kids at a time.
Activities/Resources
★ Being able to help the preschool kids with school activities when assigned one.
★ Being able to watch over the kids at all times in order to avoid inappropriate
behaviors
★ Teaching the kids to ask for permission with he/she wants or needs something from
their age group or elderly ones.
★ Correction the kids if he/she is using bad words to their age group or elderly ones.
★ Informing the kids to take cushion to bad words heard from he/she society, television or
social media.
★ Playing with the kids in a respected manner in order for the kids to learn from their
elderly ones on why to be better individuals.
Evidence
★ Being able to provide necessary care and knowledge to the preschool kids.
Deciding if this internship position is helpful in leading you into your career path.
Activities/Resources
★ Making an effort to better understanding of the responsibilities the people whom you
are working with in order to release if you are capable or interested of performing the
duties in future.
★ If not interested in your current internship position, talk with your supervisor to gain
more knowledge about your career path in order for he/she to direct you to a more
suitable future career position.
★ Also try gaining knowledge and advice through your coworkers.
Evidence
★ Have more knowledge into career goals
★ Learn more about the processes of social work
Personal Objectives
❏ Being able to apply my knowledge, skills, experience gotten from my
internship program to a work environment.
❏ Being able to reflect on the content and process of the learning experience
acquired from my internship program.
❏ Being able to demonstrate professional skills in the workplace.
❏ Built and maintained positive professional relationships.
❏ Being able to develop self-understanding, self-discipline, maturity and
confidence in workplace.
❏ Being able to develop strong networking/mentoring relationships.
❏ Also, being able to acquire various skills like;
➔ Communication skills
➔ Interpersonal skills
➔ Problem solving skills
➔ Teamwork skills
CHILD DEVELOPMENT BASED ON MY OBSERVATION
Kids in the infant room
I will be using fake names and age due to Privacy and Confidentiality agreement
Name & Age
John (9-4-15)
He will be one next September
Fine motor skills
John can only move small muscles like his fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. He performs most of this activities when he is eating and crying.
Gross motor skills
He is not able to perform most of the skills in this stage yet.
Name & Age
Christopher (11-26-14)
He turned one already
Fine motor skills
Christopher is able to pick up small objects and hold them for a while. He also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross motor skills
He is able to perform bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting that uses the larger muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet. He also plays all day and wants to sleep less.
Name & Age
Bill (12-30-14)
Turning one december 30th
Fine motor skills
Bill also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. He also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross motor skills
He is able to perform bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting that uses the larger muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet. He plays all day and always curious to be and go somewhere else he has not been before.
Name & Age
Ronald (1-16-15)
Turning one next year January
Fine motor skills
Ronald also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. He also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross motor skills
He is able to perform bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting that uses the larger muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet. He tries to play but needs to be with an adult to be fully comfortable in his environment even if it is familiar to him.
Name & Age
Robert (2-4-15)
Turning one next year February
Fine motor skills
Robert also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. He also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Gross motor skills
He is able to perform bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting that uses the larger muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet. Loves to play with other infants his size. Energetic but still needs help getting up sometimes.
Name & Age
Paula (6-2-14)
Turned one June this year
Fine motor skills
Paula also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. She also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. She can eat by herself sometimes but prefers to be feed.
Gross motor skills
She is able to perform bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting that uses the larger muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet. She loves to play with the other boys her size because he can’t really connect with the other girls who are younger than her.
Name & Age
Linda (5-29-15)
Turning one next year May
Fine motor skills
Linda also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. She also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. She can only hold her bottle herself but Can't feed herself.
Gross motor skills
She can sit but with support at her back, little bit of rolling over but fully with support. She lays and plays with toys that aren't heavy. She is also not able to crawl yet.
Name & Age
Octavia (6-24-15)
Turning one next year June
Fine motor skills
Octavia also picks up small objects and hold them for a while. She also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. She can hardly hold her bottle herself.
Gross motor skills
She can sit but with support at her back, little bit of rolling over but fully with support. She lays and plays with toys that aren't heavy. She is also not able to crawl yet. She is smaller in size compared to Linda and Freya.
Name & Age
Freya (5-19-15)
Turning one next year May
Fine motor skills
Freya picks up small objects and hold them for a while. She also uses the muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue. She can only hold her bottle herself but Can't feed herself.
Gross motor skills
She can sit but with support at her back, little bit of rolling over but fully with support. She lays and plays with toys that aren't heavy. She is also not able to crawl yet.
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PROJECT
ACTIVITY 1 & 2
Activity 2
This activity was conducted with the Preschoolers by me. This Activity is called Shape Christmas Tree Cards
I grabbed my stash of card stock and let the kids pick the colors they wanted to make their cards.
I cut a 12×12 paper (affiliate) in half, to have one for both Louis and George to make. I then folded both of them in half to make it a card.
Then, the kids picked their color for the Christmas tree.
We made these as simple as possible and used very simple shapes.
I drew a triangle on Louis’ paper and George drew his own. And then they each cut theirs out. Because i wasn't allowed to take pictures of the child's, i just put a similar picture of the activity in progress and finished outcome. I will be using fake names and age due to Privacy and Confidentiality agreement
Using a scissors was something new for Louis. I had no idea if he could do it or not. Once I helped him hold it, he took right off! I just held the paper for him and he followed pretty darn close to the line! I was very impressed!
Then they glued the triangle Christmas tree onto the front of the card I folded.
Louis put a big blob of glue instead of squirting it all around. It helped to have him spread it around using a craft stick.
Then we cut out a square for a tree trunk. The boys kept it pretty traditional and chose brown.
And then I cut stars out for the top of the Christmas tree. George wasn’t feeling confident enough to cut a star himself.A
They left some completely undecorated. But, decorating the tree was a favorite for them. I added a garland of glue on Louis’s to show George how to make a garland.
He then copied what I did and decorated his own Christmas tree pretty easily! I just love how simple they are and how festive and pretty they turned out.
