Why Do Children Use Play Tough?

The article Environments That Inspire complied by Susan Friedman was a fantastic piece. I learned that having a stick building area for children will encourage children to explore their imagination and create something for either dramatic play or make different kinds of structures. Another thing I have learned was how important it can be to have low tables and chair for toddlers. Allowing the children to sit in these chairs where their feet can rest on the floor give them a feeling of independence. Lastly, something that I learned and found quite interesting was having the All About Me Books. The child and parent can work together to create these and then bring them to class. The books celebrate each child’s uniqueness, encourage literacy,

Another activity that I took part in was bubble painting. This was where I put paint in a tray and added water. Once this was mixed properly I got the children to use a straw and blow through it to make bubbles. Once the bubbles were there a piece of paper was placed over them to create a bubble effect picture. There were two different trays of which one was purple and the other one was orange. This is so that they were able to make their own choice on what colour they wanted to use.

Activity are planned to extend children learning and development area as they learn new words and able to build on their communication and language by describing and explaining what they are doing and asking question. This also extends their vocabulary example the children enjoy playing with weighing scales so I plan activities using different resources such as lentils instead of sand or dry pasta to learn numbers, sizes, quantities etc.

I record both, short and long observations of the children and alongside their drawings and photographs, collate a learning journal, which is then shared with their parents. This allows me to plan activities that interest and challenge the children and set the next steps for each child. This also encourages parents to work in close partnership with the school.

Objectives of Activity: The child will be able to recognize most of the print and named items throughout the classroom in

Toddlers materials should be interesting, novel, and challenging. Interesting materials in the environment allow for toddler exploration. When selecting items for the classroom, the items should not be so simple nor so difficult to cause frustration. The materials should be open-ended, which will allow the toddlers to use them in many ways. Play dough is an example of an open-ended material for toddlers to explore. In order to be a developmentally appropriate environment for toddlers, the environment for toddlers, cognitive, language, and literacy development toddlers need caregivers to scaffold. Toddlers need their caregivers to support them to take the next step in their play and learning. Joint problem-solving activities and interacting

Its time to get our kids active nationwide. Lets play is a campaign to get our kids to play and be more active. This campaign is important because kids need to be motivated to go out and play, it keeps them moving and healthy. Playing can lead to all kind of outcomes, from fun to learning. For many years this theory of play was not fully accepted in the education world, but now with the help of different campaign’s; play has become a more useful tool in child development. Who ever knew that playing with your child would be beneficial in the overall development of the child, but now play is not just playing anymore; it is the fundamental of learning how to deal with life and the different situations that may occur. As parent’s we are the first to teach our children so why not teach them how learn and play at the same time. They will have fun while exercising. This helps in the school environment as well as home because if you keep kids cooped up and not moving they will get bored and not want to learn. But if they are playing and moving while learning it helps it be more fun and they enjoy it much more. Play is important for all age groups. All age kids even infants should be active. Encouraging play is encouraging the kids to be healthy and to have fun. If you introduce it early the will understand it more and do it younger and wont be as difficult as they get older.

In math, children learned how to play the butterfly race, which was introduced in work places. I read two books to them. One was “The Butterfly Countdown” and the other was “Munch, Crunch, Out To Lunch.” The first book focused on counting down from 10. The second book was about counting up from 1 up to 10. We then were able to write compare and contrasting facts about both of them on a double bubble graph. Children were also able to pretend their unifix cubes were bugs to demonstrate adding and subtracting on their 10-frame mat while I read the stories.

This can be done at school as well as at home. Teachers could give assignments that teach children to think how an experiment will turn out, then do the experiment, and see how their results differed from what they thought would happen. Encouraging children to enter science competitions and come up with original ideas. Even having contests like designing a new school t-shirt or redecorating a classroom to optimize learning conditions could be successful. A school program that allowed students to learn about different jobs in a hands-on setting could encourage formal operations as well. Assigning logic problems could also be a fun way to learn these skills. The following website, http://www.gamequarium.com/index.htm, has plenty of games that could be used by teachers or parents. Older children may take a teen living class that concentrates on situations that may occur in life and the child will have to come up with solutions to problems that may

Statsky explains that some children go as far as making themselves throw-up to avoid playing, supposedly showing that many children are afraid of competing in sports. It is true that sports can be scary to small children; however, faking vomiting to sit out of a practice is too extreme to happen on a regular basis. Children get scared, it is a normal reflex, especially if there is a ball or a bat involved. However, this does not mean children will go as far as throwing up to avoid playing. Additionally, this does not mean that children will stop playing because they supposedly fear getting hurt. When I was in third grade, my sister tripped and fell while playing a game of soccer. Although her injuries were not severe, she did have to wear a sling for about two weeks to heal. I remember children running up to me past a sign that read NO RUNNING and yelling, “Urva! Your sister

Play is the business of childhood, allowing your child free rein to experiment with the world around him and the emotional world inside him, says Linda Acredolo, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis and co-author of Baby Signs: How to Talk With Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk and Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love. While it may look like mere child's play to you, there's a lot of work — problem solving, skill building, overcoming physical and mental challenges — going on behind the scenes. Here are some of the things your child is experiencing and learning, along with ideas on how you can help boost the benefits of his play. Play builds the

Continue children’s interest making breads so that I keep this activity for elevating my program, I put some recycle bread box, recycle croissants tray, and flour can, oven, gloves. Children demonstrated to put bread or croissant in oven for roasting, they counted to 1 to 10 for finishing. Children were more excited every children made different kind of bread and croissant. But afternoon, all most children didn’t want to continue they wanted to make cupcake and birthday cake so I provided cupcake tray to children.

As an educator, it is important to know your students and provide multiple opportunities to succeed. I noted that Jean Piaget’s “discovery learning” provided me insight on this inquiry, in which Piaget believed that “children learn best through doing and actively exploring” (1958). In its various modalities of providing a lesson in mixed center groups, teacher guided groups or independent work, movement and/or action should be provided in order to replace passive way of learning through first-hand exploration of the body and materials. I found for my first graders that spelling sight words with Legos or alphabet stamps helped them master their sight words more than reading and spelling them orally or writing them in their notebooks. Students are more likely to remember the concepts if the activities engage their creativity and provide alternative pathways to the information that best suits their learning

I also love tracing bodies in chalk and decorating them with funny faces, clothes, etc. This gives your child opportunity to describe the person, label items, or tell a story about what the person is doing.

PHOTOSHOP - Using the pictures of their idols on photo-editing. Like changing the color of the hair below. Or other activities that I gave to my Grade 7 students