Today Mrs. Turner was out sick, so we had a sub. We read an article from the laptops about Jean Piaget and the stages of cognitive development. Since several of us had already taken or are currently taking psychology, we knew much of this information.
Tuesday
Mrs. Turner was out sick again today, so we read another article. This one was about different types of play that children participate in. Some of these are solitary play, group play, parallel play, symbolic play, and play involving construction.
Wednesday
With Mrs. Turner back today, we went over the articles we had read the days before. We talked about our assignment for Thursday-- shopping!! We created "shopping lists" and "cheat sheets" to use when we went shopping for toys for our students.
Thursday
Today was shopping day! Our class met in the toy section of Walmart to shop for toys that would be useful in different stages of cognitive development and different types of play. It was confusing at first because we didn't really know what we were doing, but once we figured out what to do, it wasn't too difficult to find the toys. The hardest toys to find were the toys made for black and ethnic children.
Friday
Today we were on Pep Rally schedule so we had a shortened class period. So, we wrote in our journals and reflected on our shopping day at Walmart.
"Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I'll remember. Involve me, I'll understand."
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