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• Whom you observed and interacted with in your setting during this module

During this week, I was lucky to be able to interact and observed the children and family within the same setting. The center was having a socialization activity. This is when the home base educator bring in their home based families to interact with the children and teachers at the center. The children was engaging with each other.

 When they first came in it was circle time, so they did there welcome song, finger plays, and then they read a book. Then it was time for free choice, this is when all the areas are opened for example, art, building, blocks, house keeping, sand/water play, science, and reading.The art  activity for that day was dealing with diversity. The children were decorating figures of children in different colors, to represent children from around the world. The children were very actively engaged in this activity. While all this is going on the parent's of the home based children are in the classroom interacting with the children. 

The classroom was pleasant and no chaos, because the children were actively engaged the entire time.  After free choice, then the children clean and get ready to go to the indoor gross motor room, due to the weather outside. The children get to enhance their large gross motor skills, as they run around the room, slide down slides, play with different balls, and exercise as they maneuver through the obstacle course. 

After this activity the children then go back to the classroom and wash their hands to prepare for their lunch. The home based children and families, also get to actively engage with the children as they eat. The children were socializing, as well as talking about their food as they ate.

• Any special learning experiences you may have had or an experience that provided you with insight about children and families including advocacy efforts

Special learning experiences that I had was with the home based socialization that was going on that day. From my observation it seemed as if they children enjoyed being in the setting with the other kids, so I wonder why they are in the home base program. The home base educator, wants to implement the interactions with the home base kids, to get them use to other children, in case they do transiton into the center or when it is time for them to go to school. 

• At least two insights gained from your observations of, and interactions and experiences with, children’s families regarding advocacy efforts and needs related to your area of interest within the field of early childhood

One insight that I gained from this observation is that the home based children and families loved the interaction, engagement, and the classroom flow as their children was in the classroom. Another insight that I gained that socialization bring people together,.In the case of the home based program, it brought the children to the center for a new experience and it brought the families to the center to see how the interactions with other children was like.