4 days/wk - SNCCC

I observe at the SNC Children's Center 4 days per week.  In mornings, I decided to arrive a little early in order to watch the children play with one another before school began.  The children who were in the classroom waiting as everyone arrived were playing house with one another in the circle time area.  Each child agreed what family member they were going to be, and they all got along and accepted and wanted to be the role they were given.  The children all get along during the process, yet the girls seem to lead things more than the boys.  Typically, the girls with say, "oh this is going to happen now and we are going to do this."  nothing they say is bossy, and the boys always gladly go along with it.  

When an issue arises, this is when the children will come to involve an adult.  The adult just simply asks the child "did you talk to he/she about how they made you feel?"  When Kenzie came up to me because someone was in her space, I just told her she needed to ask him to move.  She walked back over to Wesley and asked him to move and he said he was sorry and moved.  This is always a great learning experience that children generally are very forgiving, yet children seem to forget this just as fast as they learn how to solve the problem.