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1 Title - Eloise’s Sand Play The play episode… During outdoor play, Eloise, a sixteen months old walks over to the sand pit and you try to climb inside it. The educator came to you and asked if you need help. You said ‘help’ and with the help of educator you go inside the sandpit. There are several sand toys in there like shovels, buckets, sand sieves, sand wheels and molds of different animals. You pick up a shovel and an orange bucket. Then, you fill it up with sand using a shovel. Then, you pick up a blue bucket and fill it with sand too. Then you pour some sand from one bucket to another and try to place it on your mouth like you are trying to take a sip of coffee. As the bucket is big, it could fit your whole face. You seem to be amused by this, so you put it on your face again. You try that a couple of times. It looks like you are playing hide and seek. The educator walks over to you and asked if you are drinking coffee. You look at her for a moment and then nod your head and say ‘hot’ smilingly. Then you offer the bucket to the educator and say ‘coffee.’ Then, you try to put the small orange bucket into the big blue one, but it keeps hitting edges, after several attempts you finally did it then you pick up a sand sieve and put it on your face to see what it looks like to see through it and then you look at the educator through it and smile. What does it mean? Eloise, you are working like a scientist who is experimenting with different toys trying to figure out their properties. You were engaged in solitary play, and you are full of curiosity and capability. You seem to use your whole body to engage in this experience . Your play involved exploring different materials, their properties and you use your sense of sight to differentiate if it is a see through or not. You are exploring questions like how is the bucket and sieve different from each other. You do this investigation by looking through and using your senses of touch and sight. You try to find out the difference between transparent and non-transparent materials which comes under science of light. This shows evidence of the skill sorting (COD 4.9).
2 You are also involved in the skill of pretend play (COD 2.1), as you are pretending to drink coffee and you use language to express your idea of coffee as hot. This involves the expression of emotion and shows you as a capable communicator who is showing his or her ideas and feelings. This may be acting out a personal moment you had with your family while having breakfast or having coffee together. You're paying attention and smiling, so maybe this is a means to recreate a wonderful memory from home. You are creating connections between your household experiences and the early childhood settings which shows a sense of belonging. Furthermore, you are exploring containment when you dump things from one bucket to another and when you tried to put orange into blue bucket. This is the evidence of the skill spatial exploration (COD 4.4). You are an explorer and creative child who is learning about new things through your play. My Reflection: (This reflection can be written on a separate page or included in the learning story) As I looked at the photo and the observation, I immediately noticed that Eloise was involved in sensory play-playing with sand, dumping sand in different containers. After talking with another ECE student she brought my focus to consider Eloise’s deep concentration towards these materials, I reasoned that there must be other meanings to her play. You used tools like shovel to put sand into the containers and were trying to find the difference between them. You used eye- hand coordination to manipulate the toys. You were coordinating your senses with your motor skills which is essential for your physical development (COD 5.3). When I talked with my CECE, she told me how this shows the toddler’s natural enjoyment of dumping and filling, how can I to promote her skill of sensory motor integration by adding more containers of different sizes and shapes in the play and also the importance of providing variation of materials to make the play more inviting and engaging. I was delighted she could experiment with these things alone in a quiet area away from other children and adults. Being alone with the things arranged in this manner may have enabled her to have this introspective experience. I am still thinking about how the factors like physical environment, organization of space, use of time affects children's experiences and how they interact with items. What are the possibilities? Eloise , based on your knowledge of these materials, there are a lot of areas that might be further explored. To promote additional inquiry, concentrated attention, and introspection, I would recreate this set-up of sensory exploration for one child only in a quiet setting. I could replace sand with play dough or slime. I will use different cutters, scissors and rolling pins of different colors to enhance your creativity. I could also add buckets and cups of different sizes to promote spatial exploration. I can create a loose item display with magnifying glass and lenses to promote
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