DS8 is pretty much all over the house with his pretend play. Last week he built a city in his room complete with a whale in a bowl of water for the sea world and he propped up some books for background scenes. he spends about half his time at home in costumes he makes using hats, swords, a blanket for a cape, etc. he also cleaned out the back shed to make a council room and set up a table and chairs for meetings for his group...we came home one night and he said he had a meeting to go to that he could not miss, they had to meet their newest member (the girl next door). They is actually him and his stuffed puma. he has adopted a sort of calvin & hobbes imaginary relationship and gives the animal hobbes-like characteristics. he loves C&h.
DD2.5 is often asking for the things she sees in books, but actually picking at them like she can get them out of the book - I like the idea of pretending with her that she can get the ball or balloon or whatever and play with it for a bit. We will have to try that!
She is often playing at switching identities - she will say she is the boy across the street, or use the name of another person and say I am so-and-so. She says your are this person and I am that person and then she laughs because she knows she has set up a funny scene!
She also enjoys pretending she can read, picking up one of my books and reading aloud phrases from one of her books. Or she will just interpret the pictures and read that way from one of her books. I think that is pretty common pre-reading.
Yesterday after reading a bit about kinestetic learners, we had a fun game of using DS spelling list and acting out the words - simple charades. DS loved this - he does a great job and dd had a really fun time imitating all of his charade moves. It was a blast.
Last edited by chris1234; 10/18/08 01:20 AM.
