You know you are in the right job, when you finish up your day feeling energized! Helping the school friends work on their plans, work together, develop language, solve problems, and feel satisfied with their work is the best thing ever. Here are some of the plans that the school friends have worked on recently:
Blocks, blankets, and Littlest Pet Shop animals! The children used lots of language about shapes, naming animals, sorting into pets into animal families, explaining how to wrap up animals to make beds, and where to place what in the building.
Working Alone: The school friends have all learned to respect the Alone Table as somewhere safe and fun to go to when they want a break from everyone else. Here Friend "K" finds the correct shape buttons to complete the picture, counts the buttons, and finds the corresponding number. She has risen to the challenge of finding and distinguishing pentagons, hexagons, and octagons to fill in the giraffe picture.
Recreating Real Life: Friend "B" and Friend "S" have often worked together to go grocery shopping or make a doctor's office for babies and pet dogs. They load up purses and bags with "food" or "medical supplies" to take the best care of their patients. They demonstrate kindness and empathy as they bring aspects from their lives into the playroom.
Friend "K" traveled by plane to visit far-away family this summer. This is the part of her life that she has recently brought to play. She sets up the Little People homes far away from one another, loads her people onto the plane, includes a "driver for the airplane," and takes the family to visit. Once the plane lands, they get a "new car" to drive while they are visiting.
Playing Pretend: Today, Friend "K" invited her school friends to dress up and go to the hair salon. We each took turns wearing the styling cape and having our hair combed and styled. We were FANCY. ;)
Friend "B" did most of the work as the stylist. She knows about doing hair! ;)
