Where will your imagination take you?

Hi everyone,

Today our little learning community enjoyed a variety of learning experiences. We continued on with our weather inquiry which has taken shape as the students express wonder. Today’s letter of the day was ‘f ‘ in which we explored its letter sound and practised writing it in our handwriting books to discover its formation.

A highlight of our day was engaging the students in imaginative play. Imaginative play (pretend play) can be described as an act of role play where a child draws upon their imagination based on experiences to explore new ideas, materials and scenarios. During imaginative play children may be a different character, transform materials into new objects or find themselves in a new world creating their own stories. Imaginative play is very vital in early childhood as it promotes social skills, fosters creativity, encourages problem solving, improves language development, just to name a few.

To help build their understanding we viewed a short video called Sesame Street: Imagination.We were able to explore ways in we could be imaginative. We discovered that a stick could be transformed into anything we wanted it to be, from a magic wand, to a rocket ship! We invited some buddies from some of the older classrooms to join us for our play session to support our younger students.

Our play spaces to promote imaginative play included puppet play, felt boards, a home corner with cooking props, dress ups, dolls and tea set. We also transformed our two of our tables into an imaginative play spaces. Sheets and paper plates were added to offer opportunities to be imaginative.

Here are a few snapshots of our afternoon imaginative play session…