Dramatic Play Observation

Observation Task 6: Dramatic Play There is little dramatic play that happens in the classroom, or throughout the day, except when students are doing their work time, or free play time. During this time many different activities happen in different places in the classroom. Some students race to the home center where they pretend to be grown ups and other dress up and role-play different people, like batgirl and a fireman. Some also role-play with other toys, like cars and animals, and create little villages and roadways for their toys. The interactions are all fun to observe and I enjoyed watching the different things that students would do. In the home center I saw students pretending to be a chef along side a parent pretending to cook dinner for their baby. There were other students pretending it was a resturaunt and they were waiters serving the customers. They had a tablet and took make believe orders from their customers. Something else going on in the home center was pretending to be at the grocery store. One student was filling up their shopping basket with a baby in the seat and then another student was waiting to check the student out. Often times students would interact with one another, but mostly they were in pairs or small …show more content…
Those playing with cars make the cars talk and interact as if they are people. They make roadways with the blocks and a garage as well. Each car takes its turn going through the roadways and parking in the garage. Later, I look over and they have all the cars lined up as if there was a traffic jam on the interstate. They were talking about all the traffic on the interstate. It is neat to see how much these students act out what they have experienced in their own lives. Much of what was acted out in the dramatic play comes from their real-life experiences, while some are using their imaginations to creatively be butterfly princesses and