A Personal Reflection Of A Child's Play

After completing this learning story, I feel that I have very much benefited from it. This project helped me understand and learn about child’s play. Along with this, it has helped to facilitate my understanding about children and their play during the sharing process I created. I will definitely use this learning story as a future reference and a meaningful documentation to guide my further understanding of child’s play. Although I feel I gained a lot of knowledge from this learning story experience, I still have some questions that need be answered. Overall, I feel that I only benefited from creating a learning story and will definitely continue to create these stories in my future classroom and use them as a frame of reference and formative assessment. Throughout this experience I learned a lot, especially about these two children in particular. I learned that two very different children are able to work splendidly together even …show more content…
As we look back on their reactions to when I shared this story with them, Carter heard the word “trains” and ran over to the area where the trains were set up to play with them. Comparing this to Bryce, he sat and listened to the story and was very interested since he was in the story and there were pictures of him. After viewing their reactions, I was very surprised. Prior to sharing this story to the children, I didn’t expect either of them to sit and listen to the story. Both children are very active and constantly moving. I was shocked when Bryce stayed and listened to the whole story that I wrote about him. I was not surprised that Carter got up to go play with the trains, on the other hand. Along with this, I was very surprised that Bryce said things like “choo-choo” and “trains!” Being that Bryce is typically non-verbal, this was a huge step for him and it made me feel so proud and