Childhood Observation Paper

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Children gain substantially in fundamental motor skills (FMS) during the preschool and early school years. During this period, they gain their locomotive skills such as sliding, galloping, running, hopping and jumping among others, object control skills such as kicking, catching, striking and throwing and body movement control skills such as standing long jump. Also, it is during the young age that children develop skills for complex movement such as running while catching a ball at the same time. This paper provides the fundamental motor skills results after 60 minutes assessment and interaction with Joseph Markus. Joseph is a five and a half-year-old boy. During the 60 minutes interaction, I assessed the various aspects of fundamental motor …show more content…
One of the most evident observation during the catching activities was fear in reaction to the object thrown. Even before the ball was thrown to him, Joseph is seen to stretch his hands slightly flexing his elbows preparing to catch. The ball is held with both hands and the chest at the same time. Some catching instances look more of hands-chest ball encirclement as opposed to catching (Payne & Isaacs, 2012). At no instance was the child able to hold the ball with the hands without using the hand-chest encirclement tactic. Whenever I advised Joseph not to use the chest but rather use the hands alone for catching, the ball always fell. After a keen look on the angle of the palm when waiting for the ball, rarely are the palms adjusted. The palms are more of facing each other hoping to restrain the ball before it passes. When adjusting the body position to ensure he catches the ball, the body seems to lose its stability with the body remaining constantly erect as the hands and the legs are swiftly swung depending on the direction of the ball. The above observations substantially shows that the child was in the second stage of object control skills development (Payne & Isaacs,
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