Types of Play as a Means for Learning

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1. Solitary play - One little boy was busy building an airplane out of lego's, he was completely engrossed by what he was making, he was focused on picking out the right colored legos, right size legos and the right shape. He was very careful putting the lego plane together. Chilrden would come over and ask him what he was making or if they could help him but he would just keep playing and just say no thank you. Once he was done he ran around the room, pretending to fly it making all sounds. When clean up time came around, he careful put his plane away and sat down.

Parallel play - Two little girls feeding their baby doll. They are both siting next to their baby doll whos in a highchair they are both talking to the doll asking almost identical questions like "are you hungry baby" and "do you want some milk", the little girls would than put a bib on the baby and start to feed it. Both girls only interacted with the baby but they practicly mirrored each others actions towards the baby doll.

Associative Play - A bunch of kids we're all sitting around the play dough table, making playdough pizza. They we're talking to each other about what kind of pizza they we're making but each child was working on his/her own pizza.

cooperative play - two girls drew a huge dress on the blacktop with chalk, they we're working together to color it in and give it designs. They said it was a princess dress. They spent the entier time outside working together to make this beauitful princess dress.

I see a lot of social, they are communicate with friends, practiving sharing, deveolping friendships, and get along with others. They work together to make dresses on the blacktop, or talk about different kinds of pizza and what their favorite is. I als...

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...t a site that had more free play and more choices for children, I think kids need to be given options and make their own choices, so I found it a little unfair that the children never really had the opertunity to make decisions for themselves. It was nice, since I've also worked at another preschool to be able to compare the two preschools and how they are run and what things I would and wouldnt change. I also think that how they ran their program made it harder on me to answer some of my focus questions because the children didnt have free will to do what they wanted, there was no materials or set areas, and there really wasnt any disciple either. I think the fact that they had 40 kids to 6 teachers was a bit much, and i think the teachers themselves werent very energetic or out going which lead to it almost seeming like no one had a lot of control over the class.

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