Last week, JX and I were at a restaurant. They always have balloons at their entrance, and any kids going through get offered one. Hence, JX received the first ever balloon in his life. It’s the coolest gift for him, he could play with the balloon for hours!
Led by JX’s interest, I bought him another Barney’s DVD which was Barney: Big World Adventure the Movie. The story is about Barney & his friends traveling around the world in a hot air balloon. The movie introduces new cultures and languages from different countries around the world.
As usual, I watched the show together with JX. I was delighted to learn how to dance the hula dance from this movie (now only I know every movement, expression and gesture in the hula has a specific meaning, from representing plants, animals, and the elements to listening, searching, sailing and so much more) and I tried to dance it by following the scenes, so did JX (to be more precise, he only moved his hands and little body, followed by turn a round).
Given our recent learning of Hula dance and JX interest in the hot air balloon, he recently got up from his daytime nap to discover this…
I purposely created this play scenario, intending to encourage more literature based play of retelling the stories related to ‘Barney: Big World Adventure the Movie’. I wanted to encourage JX’s oral language and story comprehension abilities as I retell him the story.
Don’t you think this is an irresistible ideas for play based learning?
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