Doctor's office

Dramatic play is a type of play where children assign and accept roles and act them out. It's pretending to be someone or something else. Someone different

and new like a supervillain, or someone well known and familiar like Mum. Sometimes children take on real world roles, other times they take on fantasy roles. Either way, it is play that involves breaking down the barriers of reality and results in serious and natural learning.

Today Braxton got dressed up in the doctor's outfit and started ringing Miss Stella claiming that there was an emergency...Miss Stella was hurt and had to rush to the hospital. 

This sparked an interest with 5 of the boys who also wanted to help Miss Stella feel better. Braxton decided to take the doctor's outside,Police officer Zach answered the phone and told Doctor Braxton the messages that he needed to jot down on his note pad. 

Part of officer Zach's job is to also make the bed for the sick patients. Construction worker Andrew had a sick puppy but was told that this hospital was a place for sick people not animals so was sent on over to the vets across the road.

DRAMATIC PLAY TEACHES SELF-REGULATION.

Children are known for acting with impulse, so dramatic play is a great stepping stone for learning to self-regulate their emotions and actions. Interestingly, when children assign and accept roles in dramatic play they are motivated to stick to them, thinking of them as rules to follow. Their own rules. this helps them develop the ability to coordinate and plan with others as well as control their impulses.

DRAMATIC PLAY ENCOURAGES LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT.

Dramatic play teaches and encourages expressive language. Children are motivated to communicate their wishes to their peers and therefore must learn to speak from the perspective of their pretend roles. Dramatic play is often a very comfortable place for children who are shy or withdrawn to participate in a group.

DRAMATIC PLAY TEACHES CONFLICT RESOLUTION.

Both unstructured and structured dramatic play offer teachable moments about conflict resolution. Inevitably, disagreements will naturally arise during dramatic play, which offers children a chance to work through their differences and arrange a compromise. It also encourages children to consider alternate perspectives as they recognize various roles of people in their lives and communities.

DRAMATIC PLAY SUPPORTS MATH AND LITERACY.

Dramatic play provides the perfect play setting for children to interact with functional math and print. Consider the children who is playing server at a restaurant. He will interact with both print and numbers as he takes orders, fills them and then rings up the total owed for the meal.

Dramatic play is also known for increasing comprehension as children love to act out their favourite story book.

DRAMATIC PLAY RELIEVES EMOTIONAL TENSION.

Dramatic play offers a safe place for children to act out real life situations. Adults tend to cope with dramatic events by retelling it again and again. Children cope with dramatic events by acting them out.

DRAMATIC PLAY IS EMPOWERING TO CHILDREN.

This is not only because children can assign and accept their own roles in the play setting, but also because dramatic play offers a safe play for children to act out traumatic experiences. Typically when children act out dramatic or frightening experiences they place themselves in a powerful role. They choose to play mommy or daddy, two important figures in their lives, or a superhero with great powers. A child who has lived through real trauma, like a car accident, for example, might choose to be a paramedic or doctor.

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