Connections to Play

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"Play is serious learning."-Fred Rogers

Looking back at my childhood, I would say that there was some serious learning going on through my play, lol. I often would play "school" and I was always the teacher. If my cousins or friends were playing with me, they had to be the students as did my stuff animals (poor Miss.Bear). My pretend teaching practices often times mimicked the teaching practices of my teacher at the time. I can remember asking my teachers for extra copies of worksheets, broken chalk, folders, etc., that I could use when I played. My parents supported my play and would offer materials that I needed (ok, wanted) to play school. My dad even made me a teacher desk and hung a chalk board in my playroom. I remember feeling that I was official when my mom found an overhead projector machine at a garage sale that I could play with. I would say now, that through the many years that I would pretend to be a teacher, I learned exactly how to do that and more.