Dollhouse Center Observation

While observing this student, she went to almost every center in our room. The play episode that stood out the most for me took place in the dollhouse center. It only included this particular student. She played solitarily. She also intertwined the dollhouse center with the science center. There were various materials in the dollhouse center such as dollhouse, dolls, dollhouse furniture, and car. The science center which is located directly next to the dollhouse center also holds many materials. Some of these materials include magnets, tools, animals, and magnifying glass. The young girl used materials from both centers and played a collaborative game. She was participating in parallel play. The girl next to her was playing strictly with science

The student picked out five dolls, a mother, father, grandmother, one boy, and one girl. Each one had a role, “this one is the mommy,” “this one is the daddy.” Half of them were African American, the father, boy and girl. The remaining were Caucasian, mother and grandmother. While she was selecting dolls, she said “I have to get the family together.” After she determined all of the dolls that she would be playing with she said “everybody’s here and they are all mine!” Following that, she started playing. All of the dolls were placed at a table for dinner. “It’s time to eat everyone, we will be having turkey, mashed potatoes, and applesauce,” said mother doll. The student then voiced some “mhmm” and “yummies,” so accompany the dinner. After that she stood the mother doll up and said “time to wash up and go to bed, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow.” Then the two kid dolls cried “awhh, do we have to?” The mother claimed that she had a surprise for them in the morning, “now you need to go to bed so you can figure it out.” Shortly after she grabbed the kids and ran them up the stairs and into their

The student tells the family goodnight. To accompany the family sleeping she made snoring sounds. While the family was sleeping the student was setting up the surprise for the children in the backyard. This is where she incorporates the science center into the dollhouse center. She evenly spaced out exotic animals and said “Let’s make this a zoo.” The animals included a tiger, two bears, four monkeys, one lion, two elephants, and three giraffes. Then the girl had to take a break because it was snack time. But after she was done she came right back to playing. She got the entire family up and at the breakfast table, where there were tiny plates sitting at each chair. “Once you’re done get dressed and hop in the car,” said the mother. A couple seconds later she piled all of her dolls in the car. “Where are we going momma,” asked the little boy. After she drives the car around their house she says “we’re at the drive through zoo!” The kids scream with excitement. “Remember children, these are exotic animals, they can be found in the wild or the zoo,” said the mother doll. When the car would drive by the animals, the girl would make animal sounds to its corresponding