Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Goal-Directed Learning includes the foundation Collaborative Effort. Children from 23 through 36 months play with each other. They also engage with other children in shared activities to accomplish simple goals or tasks.
Example 1
Text on screen: Engages in a shared activity to accomplish simple goals
On screen: 34-month-old Lily and an older girl are at an easel working together using leaves and flowers to create art. Many leaves have already been placed on the easel. Lily is squatting down looking for more leaves. The other girl offers Lily some of the pine needles she is holding.
Child 1: Here you go.
On screen: Lily takes the pine needles and sticks them to the easel. She bends down to get more leaves, and she and the other girl continue to trade leaves and put them on the easel.
Lily: (inaudible)
Child 1: Here you go.
Lily: Here you go.
Example 2
Text on screen: Engages in a shared activity to accomplish simple goals
On screen: It’s clean up time. As a caregiver sings a clean-up song, 35-month-old German walks across the room. He joins 32-month-old Julia who is picking up magnetic tiles.
Caregiver 1: Oh gracias, Julia. Gracias, German. (caregivers singing a clean-up song)
On screen: German and Julia work together to gather the tiles and place them in their container. Caregivers and other children can be heard talking and singing as they clean other parts of the room. German uses the magnets in the tiles to collect a large stack and drops the stack in the container. With all the tiles picked up, German walks away to help somewhere else.
Example 3
Text on screen: Engages in shared activities to accomplish simple tasks
On screen: 35-month-old Arlo and an older child, Mia, are pretending to prepare for a trip. Mia is packing clothes into a bag, and Arlo is trying to help.
Mia: We need sweatpants.
Arlo: A blanket.
Mia: Blanket.
Arlo: A hat.
On screen: Arlo picks up a hat.
Mia: We don’t need — I packed an extra hat for baby in my bag.
On screen: Arlo stands up, still holding the hat. He balls it up in his hands and carries it over toward Mia.
Arlo: We need this one, too.
Mia: No.
Arlo: Just in case.
Mia: Just in case.
Arlo: Yeah, just in.
On screen: Arlo puts the hat in the bag. Now finished packing, Mia holds the bag and tries to zip it.
Mia: Arlo, help.
Arlo: OK.
Ons creen: Arlo tugs on the zipper tab.
Arlo: I can’t.
Mia: You can zip it.
On screen: Mia and Arlo pull the zipper tab together and manage to zip the bag.
Arlo: We got it.