This is what children will actually do...
“What happened?” The children suddenly stopped short when they ran outside to play and found the loose parts platform they have been using as a pirate ship-dragon lair-princess castle dismantled. The planks were lined up 1-2-3 along the ground.
Ways to document a dramatic play arc
This post shares some of the ways I use different methods of documenting dramatic play and how the children adopt the practice of documentation for their own use...
Things we say . . .
Visiting with other teachers, and watching them without an agenda except to simply enjoy seeing a teacher practicing his or her craft is a gift. This is a gift because you get to hear yourself in the "things we say."