Chapter 6 assignment:
Classroom Activity: Five Patterns of Play

Based on the description of children’s play styles as described by Mildred Parten, identify the five patterns of play in the scenarios given below choosing from: onlooker, solitary, parallel, associative, and cooperative:

1. Andy and Randy are playing together with blocks on a table; they talk, exchange blocks, but construct their own models with blocks.
Play pattern:

2. Taylor follows Kris around a sandpit as Kris plays in it; Taylor talks to Kris, and asks questions, but does not play directly with Kris.
Play pattern:

3. Several children are building a castle together with blocks. Anita builds the towers, Rowen works on the moat, Ted makes a drawbridge, and Beth makes flags for the towers.
Play pattern:

4. Rita is fills a cup with water and pours the water outside; Nita also fills a cup with water and pours it outside, but they are not exchanging cups, or playing together.
Play pattern:

5. Ryan and Christie are decorating cardboard boxes with stickers. They are neither sharing their stickers, nor talking to each other.
Play pattern: