18 June 2025

Rosebud is involved in very active imaginary play with her classmates at recess.  For awhile she was running a restaurant where the "food" is natural items.  She used green pine cones for bananas, and mud for pudding. Pine tree flowers were sprinkles on other food. She used samaras for pasta, and so on.  She was surprised how popular this game was with her classmates, and they played it for several weeks together.  

One of her friends made 3D printed articulated dragons in different colors for her group of friends, and they took them outside for recess and set up kingdoms for each dragon around the tree in the recess yard.  Rosebud was so happy with her dragon that she made it a bedroom in her dresser:

There was drama around receipt of the dragons - the girl didn't bring them when expected - and around her teacher not allowing them to take the dragons outside to play, but finally everything came together and the girls had a great time with them.  

The game she's been playing lately is with her friends Melanie and Fiona, and it involves possession of superpowers.  I offered to let her skip the last day of school, but she wanted to go in order to make sure that she got one more session of play in with them.

She was sad at the end of school, because she felt like her class had really come together as a community and she was sad to see the end of the community.