Kidango Center Observation

In my previous observation I was able to go to a Kidango center at Royal Sunset High School, which I now work at and used this center to observe the children at play. At this center it is majority four year olds but also three and five year olds as well. There were many different personalities between the children which brought out a lot of different kinds of play.
The class starts off as free play while the children enter the classroom for the first forty five minutes. There are three tables set up for choice activities, one art table, one writing table, and one manipulative toy table that the teachers set up before the children enter the class. The children also have the options of not going to the table; they could go to the block area, library, or
At first the boys found one of the smaller cars, in a similar form as a hot wheels brand car, in the bin of toy cars and were just rolling the car back and forth having a good time. Pretty soon other boys noticed what seemed like a lot of fun and decided to join in. There were three boys on one side two boys on the other, and then there were four boys on a side and one on the other. The boys kept switching where they wanted to sit and there was not anyone who protested. As I was sitting aside them I kept hearing “It’s my turn” or “Now it’s my turn” over and over again, I did not ask them to take turns there was no set an order who passes the car to whom they just did what came naturally to them which was having fun. This type of play the children were engaging in is what I identify as associative play. In associative play the children are in a group in the same area with the same material(s) with no set rules or negotiation and that is exactly what I saw going on here. It was intrinsically motivated and freely chosen object