The chapter talked about the decline of play for children as they spend more time indoors on screens. (Cunningham, 2019). In your current classroom, how will you incorporate play into your classroom? Do you feel schools are coming around to the idea of play being an important part of the curriculum? How can you convince parents, colleagues, or administrators that play is an important aspect of the learning process?
Questions for Chapter 6:
This chapter talked about how important it is for students to have time allotted every single day for storytelling. They even recommended having a student job as a storyteller in order to hold the teacher accountable for that time. This is all great on paper or in theory, but how can we make sure that we create this time and stick to it? When we run behind schedule or if something else comes up in our day, would storytelling would be one of the first things to go? What are some ideas you have for your classroom that would allow time for your students to create stories and be able to share with their classmates regularly?