Role Play – Cooking and Eating

Date: 9^th May 2014

Day: Friday

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Yummy, Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Role Play – Cooking and Eating

The children had been exposed to quite some names of the food that they could see around them. So today, I would like to see if they could make use of the names of food and apply it in the role play session.

I divided the group into 2 groups with about 5-6 children in each group. The children had to decide who would be the chef/cook and others would be customers. Each group was given a box of toys on cooking tools and food. Then they started to play with it.

Group 1: Thong Xuan, Yi Xuan, Ye Wern, Jayden, Huey Xin

Group 2: Edmund, Yi Fai, Kai Heng, Zen Hong, Yee Hin, Ayden

I observed the 2 groups of children while they were playing.

Those children in group 1 could immediately started their role play as cook and customers. Though there were some argument and laughter, yet, they enjoyed it.

While looking at group 2, most of them started to play with the toys individually. I didn’t want to interrupt too much; therefore, I just gave some suggestion of what they could do with the food toys and tools and suggested some role for them to be. Fortunately, after a while, they could start to interact with each other to play as a group. 

Zen Hong: Let me cook!

"Yummy, yummy!" Yee Hin & Edmund eating the "food" that Zen Hong cooked. 

Huey Xin: I cook.

Thong Xuan eating the food prepared by Huey Xin. Yi Xuan looked on.