druz blog 10

One thing that really captured my attention in class on Tuesday was that the function of play for a child is communication. Now that I know this I can look back at the times I babysat or even when I was younger that it is so obvious. Whenever I babysat for this one girl, she would always be babysitting for her doll. I kind of took notes on what she wanted to do by what she was doing with her doll. When her doll was hungry, it was time to eat. When the doll needed to go to the bathroom, I figured she did too. I never looked at it as she was communicating but that she just wanted to be like me because what girl doesn't want to be like the person that babysits them, I knew I always did and was by babysitters shadow. This will really help me in my profession as an educator. Even though I will be teaching high school, and those students don't really play, maybe I could pick up from their actions as a way of communication rather than just seeing the basic picture like I would have originally.