Dialogue in Play with the Power Primes
Lately the Power Primes have been playing a lot of games in the classroom that involve feasting, candy, and cooking up spicy hot chocolate. During their feast they often gather around a table in our dramatic play corner. They haul over chairs and stools so they can all have a seat at the table together. Below are some of the things they said while gathered around the table.
Ollie: There’s cupcakes!
Jack: I’m gonna make my spicy hot cocoa
Nua: Bah bah bah bah bah bah
Simon: I’m gonna make some hot cocoa
Ollie: It’s my birthday
Jack: Who wants candy!?
Simon: Here’s the cupcakes here’s the cupcakes
Ollie: It’s only my birthday and Pearly’s birthday
Cate: It’s your birthday
Simon: babbbaaabba
Jack: I’m a boy
Cate: If you are a boy you can’t get one of these crowns
Jack: I’m a girl
Cate: No you are a boy, Ollie do you want this crown? I’m sorry
Pearl: Ollie is a girl. I’m a girl. She’s a girl (pointing to Cate) He’s a boy (pointing to Jack)
Elende: I’m just going to remind you all that everyone gets to decide for themselves what gender they are.
Nua: I’m him I’m him
Phino: I’m they and them
August: Oh here is an orange!
Cate: Ollie, you wanted a crown right? Pearl you wanted a crown
Pearl: Okay. Yeah
August: I got a crown
Cate: Who wants a crown?
Nua: I want it!
Cate: Okay!
Ollie: Who wants a cupcake?
Pearl: Me! Jack you can have the cupcake
Nua: I want cupcake
Simon: I don’t have so much
Ollie: Do you want a cupcake? (asking Simon)
Jack: I want another cupcake
Nua: There’s a dinosaur in this game
Pearl: There are no dinosaurs in this game
Cate: Yup. No dinosaurs in this game
Pearl: No dinosaurs
Nua: There is!
Pearl: No Nua there are no dinosaurs in this game
Cate: Elende, Nua says there are dinosaurs
Elende: Who makes the rules in the game?
Cate: I’m doing the rules. Pearl wants me to make the rules
Nua: I want to do the rules
Cate: I gave you millions of blocks
This piece of dialogue is a great example of what it sounds like to play when you are in the Power Primes classroom. It’s exciting to read through this and hear all the different ways the Power Primes are engaging in play. Through games like these the Power Primes are learning how to share space, be flexible, be inclusive, think creatively, and stand up for themselves. They are all playing this ‘feast’ game together but they all are having different experiences of the game. So much learning is taking place here!
