Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify the process of building relationships with classmates at a nursery school through song play with narrative structure. After conducting a six-month observational study of a class of children under the age of two years, nine representative scenes in which children interacted with each other were extracted from video recordings. We focused on one girl and analyzed situations in which she interacted with other children when playing a nursery song. We identified three processes of building relationships with classmates: 1) acknowledging the narrative structure of the song through interaction with teachers and classmates; 2) actively devoting themselves into the narrative structure and expanding the range of interactions; and 3) co-creating narratives with classmates without intervention of teachers.
