Planning play is an important development as children learn through playing. We started a time that I call Collaborative Play so that all children will have a chance to practice planning.
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| Students chose the area that they wanted to play. |
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| He was so excited that he started planning at home. |
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| Planning for Littlest Pet Shop |
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| They made a treasure map. |
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| After some play they went back and planned some more. |
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| Planning for doll house. |
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| They drew some of the people they were going to play with. |
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| The people all went on a vacation. |
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| Planning for Construction. |
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| The planned for a large city. |
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| They started with three individual buildings. |
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| Two groups joined. |
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| Then they decided to all work together. |
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| They also went back to plan more. |
It will be interesting to see how the planning changes over time. In the past, I always assigned play groups, this time they were able to pick and had a lot more fun. We started the process at 9am and didn't finish until 12, with a break for recess, PE and library. That's an extremely long time for young children to work on one project.
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