Aurorah-Lee Short Story

Aurorah- Rae, you continue to be interested in dramatic play, and this occasion was no different. You were in the sandpit shovelling sand into your red bucket. I sat down in the sandpit alongside you and started shovelling sand into my bucket too. We were soon joined by Tommy and Moira, who found their own buckets and containers to fill up sand with. “I making ice cream for me,” you told me as you continued to fill up your bucket. “What kind of ice cream are you making?” I asked you. “Chocolate and strawberry,” you replied. You kept shovelling sand until your bucket, as you did so you said to yourself “Happy birthday to me”. Then you tipped the bucket over and exclaimed “It’s broken”. “You need to try again,” I encouraged you. You did try
“No,” you told me. We continued to build cakes for a while, you really seemed to enjoy rein-acting the whole birthday ritual making a cake, singing happy birthday, and blowing out the candles. Thank you Aurorah for allowing me to be part of your dramatic play.What Learning Is Taking Place/What I Know About You: Aurorah, the sandpit is a great stage for imaginative play, where you can turn sandcastles into pretend birthday cakes with bark candles. According to constructivist theory (Piaget, 1945), children have an inner drive to build an understanding of their world as they explore and interact with materials. Aurorah, that is what you were doing on this occasion, you were taking a special cultural custom of celebrating someone's birthday and rein-acting it through sand play. You incorporated all the important elements of a birthday celebration into your play, you included a birthday cake, candles, you sang the “Happy Birthday” song, and you blew out the candles. This is a custom that you would have experienced and been apart of many times both in your home setting and at Jump Start.Where To Next: Aurorah, I wonder if you would enjoy setting up a hair dressing salon outside or