Casa Latina
January 28th, 2014
4:15 PM – 7:30 PM
This
week, we had an extraordinary amount of children (4 babies, 4 older children),
but we also had more help. Liz Mills, a PhD candidate, as well as Elan (I don’t
remember her last name) helped with the children. One boy, who had attended the
program before, has difficulty being away from his mother and those he is
emotionally attached to. Thus, one of us had to pay specific attention to him
consistently throughout the night to prevent loud crying. I spent the time
holding him and after he calmed down, playing games with him. He liked to hold
on to various items and usually distracted him. For example, we have soft
letters that we showed him that he held onto for most of the night. When I got
tired from holding him, we sat on the floor and bowled. We used paper cardboard
tubes and a relevantly small ball to knock them over. We also stacked these
tubes – standing them up and stacking them on top of each other. He also liked
the finger puppets.
He
tended to get most upset when people came in and out of the room. I think this
is probably because he thought his mother was returning to pick him up. Also, a
smaller baby started crying and her mother came into feed her. He was very
upset when the other baby cried and even more upset when she got her mother
while he did not.
I
also had an interesting conversation with Liz Mills about the apps that I
downloaded onto the iPad for the children. We started to talk about my
reasoning and how the apps can aid in the intellectually development of the
children. Hopefully, I will be able to talk with her more in the future.
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