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		<title>months later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the second to last week of school I noticed the children in house keeping sat down to plan their play together before they got into playing. Due to testing, IEPs, and other demands it had been MONTHS since I&#8217;d been able to sit down and play with them, or give them play-plans like I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2010/06/25/months-later/</link>
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		<title>updates at the end of the year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year got away from me with this project. For a long time I thought I&#8217;d let the project go, but then I realized it had changed course over the year without me even thinking about it, and had taken on a new look. My goal now is to somehow sift thought all of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2010/06/25/updates-at-the-end-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Skills practiced during play today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- Counting by 10s with play money -Exchanging 5 10s for 1 50 with play money -Making eye contact -Using please/thank you -Saying someone&#8217;s name when you want their attention -Listening to your friends&#8217; ideas -Talking directly to someone when you want to share an idea -The word wall word &#8216;I&#8217; -The word wall word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/24/skills-practiced-during-play-today/</link>
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		<title>Beginning of transfering skills&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally I stop taking data when it&#8217;s time to clean up, however, today as I used my grouchy teacher voice to order the kids around in order to make sure they were cleaning up I noticed they were still using the language that we&#8217;ve been encouraging them to use during play. They are beginning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/24/beginning-of-transfering-skills/</link>
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		<title>Notes on Play Plans- Tools of the Mind research 2001</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bodrova, E. and Leong, D. (2001). Tools of the mind: A case stuedy of implementing the Vygotskian approach in American early childhood and primary classrooms. Innodata Monographs-7. International Bureau of Education. Bodrova and Leong discuss play planning as it is used in a Vygotskian approach in the classroom. When children are encouraged to record what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/18/notes-on-play-plans-tools-of-the-mind-research-2001/</link>
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		<title>Story telling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I introduced the stethoscopes to play just to see what the children would do with them. They immediately wanted to play dr and quickly assigned roles and filled out their play plans. Once they got started their play was a little off- they didn&#8217;t seem to know what to do first, or how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/18/story-telling/</link>
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		<title>play plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I took an idea I heard about from Tools of the Mind schools. When students chose to come to the dramatic play center I had them fill out &#8220;play plans&#8221;. The plans said &#8220;Today ____ will play _____&#8221;. The students had to write the word I (we just added I to the word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/16/play-plan/</link>
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		<title>Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when we take current academic research on play and apply it to a diverse, inclusive, kindergarten classroom? Different academic research on play will be considered including ways to use play to increase vocabulary, social skills, attention span, working memory, and cognitive function. Current, available research makes great claims about the importance of play, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whyplay.edustudygroup.com/2009/11/08/question/</link>
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