During my time in the Children's Center this week, we went sledding again which was a lot of fun. The children were much more attune to the rules and conscience of how go down and then walk up the slides, and Bonnie didn't even have to go over the rules again. On the walk over to the hill, we also spent some time looking for letters all around us. For example we found the letter "i" as a light post. This was a great way to incorporate literacy into their play because now that they have done that once, they will probably continue doing it in their everyday play.
Last week's class where we played with the Picocrickets was a lot of fun because we really got a sense of how children would react to a new toy. I was amazed at how much children could learn about problem solving when programming their toy. Beth and I really had to try out different things before we were able to get our program to work. It was a little frustrating but both of us love a challenge like that so we really were motivated to get it to work. The picocrickets really allow for creativity in children's play because there really are endless options. When Krissy was first talking about the duck and Yoda I was really unimpressed because I was thinking that they were the most boring toys and not very exciting to play with. But I really think that children will be more excited about all types of play because they will be more likely to ask the questions "Why?" and "How?" which is clearly a sign that they are doing higher level thinking.
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