fandomhigh | Child Development- 1st Period- Class #8

When the students walked in today, they'd find the Danger Shop looking a little larger than usual. Due to the small plastic playground on one end of the playroom they usually found themselves in.

"How are we all doing?" Lily asked. "I know it's Monday for some of you, and it's early, and you don't want to be here. Well, suck it up because you're gonna be active today.

"Today we're going to be learning about play," she went on, passing down the handouts. "Yeah, I know, it's fun, but it serves developmental and educational purposes, too. The other week we were talking about fine and gross motor skills. Running and jumping and ~~climbing trees~~ walking, things like that, work the bigger muscles. Smaller things, like block, puzzle pieces, those work the fine motor skills. And beyond physical development, there are educational toys. The old Speak and Says- don't tell me you don't know what those are, I will feel old- the Leap Frog things, they're a way for kids to learn. Because even now, wouldn't you prefer to learn while you're actually having fun? You've got to keep their interest somehow. There's also the social aspect. Play is where a lot of kids learn simple things like sharing. I mean, I'm going to set you guys off to play, and let's face it, you're all going to probably pair up and talk the whole time.

"Hey, that's a great segue there, really. On one side of the playroom you have the playground setting. On the other you have have puzzles and games and dolls. Don't act like you're too cool for it, everyone needs to get a little silly now and then. Just think about what a kid would be learning doing whatever activity you pick. Is it something where you can involve yourself with other people? Do you need to work at problem solving? By the end of class you can just write a quick ~~handwavy~~ paragraph on what you think. And hopefully this will wake you up for the rest of your day, and if it doesn't... well, I tried."

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Francine made a face. "Those would be the ones my brother got hold of."

"I was trying to give them haircuts," Claudia said with a grin. "It didn't work."

"Ohhh," Francine answered, placing a crib in one corner of an upstairs room. "I tried that once, but then I felt so bad about how ugly she looked, I made my mom find me a Barbie wig for her. It was pink with purple streaks."

"I have a wig like that!" Claudia said. Of course she did. "I totally drew inspiration from what Barbie was wearing, too. Like that business suit that was reversible? Hot."

"I didn't have that one. I had the Happy family Kitchen, though. With the sparkly aprons and chef hats?" Of course she did.

"Ooooh," Claudia said. "And I totally planned a ton of weddings, except I didn't have a Ken doll because you couldn't do his hair? So my Barbies were really progressive."

Whooooosh right over her head. "I only had two Kens, so my Barbies had to share them. I was doing this big double wedding and I needed a minister so I kidnapped one of my brother's GI Joes." Francine clucked her tongue. "He was too short to see over the podium, though."

"I tried that with my friend's Kristy's brothers' action figures, too!" Claudia said. "They got mad."

Francine grinned. "I did it when mine was at school. He's a couple years older than me."

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