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Dramatic play is so essential to the development of our youngest learners. Dramatic play teaches and promotes expressive language. Children are inspired 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 good avenue for children who are shy or with low self-esteem to participate in a group. Dramatic play allows kids to act out scenarios they've seen or heard in real life, giving them an important emotional outlet. This is especially important for children who have seen something upsetting or scary in their daily lives. Children also develop important complex social and higher order thinking skills. Through pretend play, children learn to do things like negotiate, consider others’ perspectives, transfer knowledge from one situation to another, balance their own ideas with others, develop a plan and act on it, express and listen to thoughts and ideas, assign tasks and roles, and synthesize different information and ideas. Please help me build my dramatic play areas in my Kindergarten classroom so that my students can have these integral experiences! I have always taught first and second grade. This is my first year teaching a Kindergarten class! I appreciate all the support in helping me to build areas of the classroom that I am lacking.

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Dramatic play is so essential to the development of our youngest learners. Dramatic play teaches and promotes expressive language. Children are inspired 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 good avenue for children who are shy or with low self-esteem to participate in a group. Dramatic play allows kids to act out scenarios they've seen or heard in real life, giving them an important emotional outlet. This is especially important for children who have seen something upsetting or scary in their daily lives. Children also develop important complex social and higher order thinking skills. Through pretend play, children learn to do things like negotiate, consider others’ perspectives, transfer knowledge from one situation to another, balance their own ideas with others, develop a plan and act on it, express and listen to thoughts and ideas, assign tasks and roles, and synthesize different information and ideas. Please help me build my dramatic play areas in my Kindergarten classroom so that my students can have these integral experiences! I have always taught first and second grade. This is my first year teaching a Kindergarten class! I appreciate all the support in helping me to build areas of the classroom that I am lacking.

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