Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Outdoor Dramatic Play and Math

What a beautiful day it was today. KDH came outside at the end of a very busy morning of Chanukah fun. The Mad Scientist aka Rabbi Sollish had visited, we had our Chanukah Show and Tell and some of us had made our Chanukah menorahs. 
Cassidy found some of the bottles that are filled with colored water. She set up a roadside shop along our bike path. "I'm selling drinks," she announced. The children came along and purchased drinks. Luba tried out one flavor. "How much does it cost?" she asked Cassidy. Cassidy replied, "It's two dollars." Luba  handed Cassidy a five dollar bill and received three dollars in change. Luba liked it so much, she came back and ordered more. "I need seven more drinks for my family." she said. After taking them home, Luba came back for two more. "How many have you ordered all together?" I asked Luba. That's 1 plus 7 plus 2. Luba counted it up and declared, "That's ten drinks!" Other KDH children were drawn into the action. They found the other bottles around the playground. "Here is the green sour apple," said Motty as he put down the green bottle. "We found pink strawberry," added Ziva. "Can I please have the aqua fruit punch?" asked Eli. "The green apple is good." chimed in Perly. "Here is my seltzer bottle to add to the drinks." offered Sholom. A few of the children wanted to take bottles. When they were told that only "cups" were being sold, they happily cooperated and left the bottles with Cassidy. Ziva offered to help Cassidy sell and serve which Cassidy accepted. After a few minutes we had all the bottles collected together.  We counted them up. We had 12 bottles. A fantastic selection. 



And a fantastic time. Dramatic play. Math. Cooperative play. Learning while playing outside. 

Morah Ruth



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