Originally Posted by
hectors house
Just practise doing observations on your daughter, what is she doing, how is she doing it, what did she say etc then write it up on Tapestry, add a photo (could be of anything as it's only a practice), then look at the EYFS statements and see anything that fits what she was doing - sometimes you can actually "tick" more of the COEL than you can the statements.
When your new mindees start the first observations you will be doing will be starting points, I find it useful to make this the very first observation and bring up all the statements and tick off the ones you know they can do eg: if they are 2 and already running around, then go back through the younger age bands for Physical development and tick all of the 0-birth 8-20 16-26 statements that apply - this will be useful when you want to print off planning sheets as it will not give you planning which isn't age appropriate.
The more you use it the more you will question "why does that happen" "what happens if I do this" etc - just read tutorials on the EYFS forum and often it's good to read the questions and answers that other people have posted. eg if you can't manage to get your photos to attach, if you log onto the forum you may find that lots of people have had problems that day, so then you know it's the software and not you.