We Are Skating Together

We Are Skating Together

Kesler has been practicing on his "skates" for several days. One morning, as Kesler begins to skate around, Wesley decides to join him. They are both focused on their own bodies at first; their full concentration needed to stay up on the skates. As they get used to moving around in this challenging way, they look more to each other.
*unless otherwise noted, Kesler and Wesley are speaking only to each other.

Kesler: We are on skates.
Kesler: It's hard to balance on them. It's hard.
Wesley: You put your arms out that way.
Wesley: If I want to balance I have to put my arms out.
Kesler: That's fun! Let's go that way! Let's go fast!
Wesley: No, no. I can't go fast. How fast can you go?

Kesler: 

I don’t know…Let me see…

 
 
 

Now I’m gonna turn around. Now I’m gonna turn around.

On the hard floor it’s a little trickier.

 

On the harder floor, it’s a little trickier. 

Wesley: 

I can only go slow. This skate…this skate…I need to buy some new skates.

 

I need to turn around. 

What’s a little trickier? 

They skate across the rug.

Kesler tells Diane, We are skating together!

They have moved to the block area but their play continues...

Kesler: It's a roller skating (xxxxx) I'm going to use one of these, ok?
Wesley: Ok. Mine will be locked.
Kesler: Mine is a different one. Skates will go on top.
Wesley: I locked it. I locked my ice skates in there. You know I locked my ice skates in there.

Wesley: I’m skating again. I’m going ice skating again. I need to lock mine because I think bad guys will come in mine.

Kesler: That’s my skates. Don’t touch my skates. My skates are fragile. But I can still stand on them and go fast but my skates are fragile and I don’t want you to break my skates.

Wesley: I know. I don’t mind. I have mine. It’s nighttime!

Kesler: A house for my skates. That’s what Wesley’s making with me.

Wesley: My skates are in here. It’s nighttime.

 

"The first and most revolutionary principle in the Reggio Approach is both that individuals are not, as it were, isolated one from the other, and that human sensibility is based on a sharing of minds and hearts in dialogue and interaction."
-Jerome Bruner