Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Social and Emotional Development domain, the strand Social Interactions includes the foundation Interactions with Peers. Children from 23 through 36 months engage in simple cooperative play with peers.
Example 1
Text on screen: Engages in simple cooperative play around a shared activity.
On screen: 25-month-old Hunter and 33-month-old Vera are playing together in a play kitchen. Vera stands holding a tray of four toy cupcakes. Hunter crouches in front of a play oven, holding a toy cake.
Vera: What cake do you want?
On screen: Vera sets the cupcakes on the floor beside Hunter. Hunter puts the cake in the oven. Vera lists the cupcakes by color, naming some colors twice
Vera: Yellow or pink or blue? Or yellow or blank or pink?
On screen: Hunter stands and closes the oven door.
Hunter: Pink.
Vera: Pink cupcake, here you go.
On screen: Hunter kneels in front of Vera, and Vera tries to hand him the pink cupcake. Hunter picks the yellow cupcake from the tray. Vera holds the pink cupcake out again.
Vera: You want a chocolate one?
On screen: Hunter glances at Vera then pretends to eat the yellow cupcake.
Hunter: Cupcake.
On screen: Vera offers the pink one more time.
Vera: You want a chocolate one?
On screen: Hunter starts to pick up the blue cupcake then lets go of it. Vera picks up the blue, pink, and white cupcakes. She stands and walks away holding the cupcakes.
Example 2
Text on screen: Engages in simple cooperative play around a shared goal
On screen: 31-month-old Everleigh is seated at a table outside building a tower with square magnetic tiles. She tries to add a tile, but it falls in the tower.
Everleigh: I need it higher, higher.
On screen: 36-month-old Liam, walks over and reaches down through the top of the tower and picks up the fallen tile. A caregiver speaks to Everleigh and Liam from off screen.
Caregiver 1: You want him to build it higher? Liam is an awesome helper.
On screen: Liam places the tile on the side of the tower.
Caregiver 1: There you go. That’s awesome.
On sceen: Everleigh tries to add another tile to an open space but bumps into the other tiles. Liam tries to take the tile from Everleigh. She pulls it away from him.
Everleigh: Whoa.
On screen: Liam points to the open space.
Liam: Put it this way.
On screen: Everleigh places the tile.
Everleigh: There.
On screen: Liam straightens the tile. Everleigh picks up another one.
Everleigh: Look, I do it.
On screen: Everleigh gently places the tile vertically on the top of the tower.
Everleigh: It not fall.
On screen: Liam adds a tile behind Everleigh’s, but lays it down horizontally. He moves Everleigh’s tile over and tips it horizontal, too.
Liam: No, like this.
Everleigh: It not fall.
On screen: Everleigh picks up another tile, watching as Liam finishes placing the tiles horizontally.
Caregiver 1: You’re making it so it won’t fall?
Everleigh: Yeah!
Caregiver 1: Yes.
On screen: Everleigh stands and leans in to watch as Liam adds more tiles to close the top of the tower. Leam reaches across the table for two toy cars.
Liam: I want to get the cars. The cars gonna go in this.
On screen: Liam pulls tiles off the bottom level of the tower and starts putting the cars inside. At the same time, Everleigh removes one of the tiles from the top. With so many tiles missing from one side of the tower, the rest of the tiles on that side fall off. Everleigh looks at the fallen tiles and the remaining sides of the tower.
Everleigh: It’s not fall. Not fall.
Example 3
Text on screen: Engages in simple cooperative play around a shared activity
On screen: 33-month-old Kate stands at a water table filled with soapy water. An older child, Kylie, stands next to her. Together they are washing a baby doll.
Kate: (speaking Spanish) Wash. Wash. Wash.
On screen: Kylie reaches into the water and pulls out another sponge and the baby doll. Kylie lays the doll on the edge of the water table.
Kate: Wash baby plates. Wash this baby.
On screen: Kylie begins to scrub the doll with her sponge. Kate dips her sponges into the water then joins Kylie in scrubbing the doll. They continue to chant.
Kate & Kylie: (singing) Wash, wash, wash…
Kate: Wash. Wash. Wash. Wash. Wash. Wash.
On screen: Kate steps back and stops scrubbing the dolls. She squeezes suds from her sponges.
On screen: Wash that one.
On screen: Kylie stops scrubbing and picks up the doll.
Kylie: Yes. Another baby that we wash a lot.
On screen: Kate drops her sponges on the table, and she and Kylie walk away together.