The grumpy morning

Alex Moore
The Grumpy Morning
By: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Illustrated by: Darcia The Grumpy
Labrosse
For Preschool ages 2.5-6 morning
years
Play Bin
Additional books
Farm display
Finger Song cube
Puppet

Felt Board
Engaging and encourage expression
I have made a farm display using lots of natural elements
including real grass/moss and dirt/mud to involve a sense of
natural elements to help them engage and develop a sense of
expression. Due to unforeseen events I was not able to get
animal figures as planned to be involved in the display for
them to play with and move around through the farm. Out of
popsicle sticks I made a house, barn, fence and hen shed
allowing 3D effects for them to further engage into the story.
For my felt board I used real pictures of the animals and what
they would eat to allow them to picture and express themselves
while reading through the book.
Pretend Play Stages
Self-pretend Play:
-Used by developing first word users (12-18 months)
-Performing pretend actions on oneself with realistic looking toys
-Child plays at being oneself

Simple Pretend Play:

-Used by developing combiners (18 months-2 years)
-Substitutes toy for real object
-Starts copying adults actions

Sequence Pretend of Familiar Events and Beginnings of Role Play:

-Used by developing early-sentence users (2.5-3 years)
-Plays in role of another and uses several pretend actions
-Give toy more active role to perform actions for itself
Pretend Play Stages
Sequence Pretend of Less Familiar Events with Substitution of Dissimilar
Objects:
-Used by early sentence users (2.5-3 years)
-Acts out less familiar events, talking while playing
-Pretends an object is something else using imagination

Sociodramatic Play; Planned Pretend Themes:

-Used by later sentence users (3-5 years)
-Develop imaginary themes using make-believe
-Interact and Cooperate together for an extended period of time
-Imitate people and play roles, solve problems to produce results
-Develop a story with a plot and sequence of events and outcomes
-Coordinate and manage play as well as use language to establish the
identity of an object
----Sociodramatic play is very important in the value of pretend play
depending on the child's language skills, interactions with others and
creating a sense of imagination with little need for objects.
 References
Early learning for every child today: a framework for Ontario early childhood settings

Ministry of Children and Youth Services – 2007

Playing and learning in Early Childhood Education Dietze & Kashin - Pearson Canada

Inc. - 2019