Line of Inquiry: There are similarities and differences between past and present
Today we explored the children's ideas of of what they like to play and compared it to the ideas that children played long ago. Some of the children's play ideas are the same as what children played long ago and some ideas could not have been played long ago. Why not?
- Watch T.V. - Rocco, Chloe, Sarah, YuHa, Natalya, Adyson
- Computer games - YuHa, Adyson, Chloe, Rocco
- Play trains - Rocco, Hao Hao
- Play Barbies (dolls) - Adyson, Natalya, Rocco, Chloe
- Ipad - Sarah, Natalya, Chloe
After hearing the story "Hunt the Thimble" by Fiona French the children wanted to try this play idea that the children in the story played long ago in Amsterdam. They learned that they had only a short time to hide it and that it was hard not to peek while they waited for it to be hidden. The children also played a board game, an activity many children played before TV's, computers, and Ipad were ever invented!
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| Finding the thimble |
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| Counting to ten - don't peek! |
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| Playing a board game |
Hi Wendy,
ReplyDeleteThis book and play time with the children reminds me of the song games we played a couple of years ago. You may recall we played "Who has the button?" and "Can you guess who has the ring?" Here is web site with a slight variation. http://www.nancymusic.com/Ring.htm
If the children decide they want to play it and like the music I can work with the SOFA for it and I am sure Fleurette would love to play it too when she comes on Mondays. I am also interested to know if these inquiries are changing the way the children play during the day. I wonder if they are playing some of these games at home. Let's check or maybe create a chart to see what games families play at home. What a great way to help the children practice researching and collecting data.