My Connections to Play

I would use pot and spoon to pretend that I was cooking

 My piano was used daily for practice and to pretend that I was a concert pianist.

I would use my mother teacher's editions to pretend that I was a teacher.








 My play time consist of me playing house or teacher.  I would play cooking and taking care of my babies dolls.  This help me to become a patience mother and it also help me to learn to cook.  I would set my dolls in chairs and I would write on the chalk board and pretend that I was a teacher.  I would take my mother teacher guides and pretend that I was teaching a lesson from the book.  This help me to learn how to follow the instruction book  for the curriculum.  I also pretend that I was a concert pianist on the piano.  I did learn how to play the piano and played for my church from the age of 17 until I was 35.  I just filled in when needed now with the piano at church.

Play is about the same in some ways.  The children still models the adult activity as we did in the past years.  The kids in the classroom still play house in dramatic play center.  Some of the girls take the dolls and pretend to wash their hair in the sink or cook like their mothers do at home. The role of play teaches the children social/emotion skills language and cognitive skills.  Play helps build the child development years.