Cache Level 2 Unit 4

Unit 4 - children and play

D1, D2, D3, D4, D6, C

One setting where children might play is a nursery; the typical age range a child would play in the nursery is aged between 3-4 years. The stage of play for a child to be involved with while playing in the nursery might be associative play stage which means children look to see what other children are doing and may copy them; children may stand at the edge of older children’s games. The types of play that would take place in a nursery is pretend play, this means that the child use there imagination and act out things they have seen and/or heard. The activity that can be is doctors/nurses they can pretend to be doctors and treat patients for colds, broken arms/legs. The risk and challenges of this activity is the risks are hurting themselves on the doctor play set, make sure its age appropriate and not broken. The resources needed are costumes (doctors/nurses) doctor kit. The reason why I am using these resources is because they will help the children know what a doctor does when or if they have to go to the doctors so they won’t be nervous. Another setting is a garden; the typical age range is 5-7 years. The stage of play is cooperative play this means they can play actively together as well as talk about and decide what to play. By the age of 7 play they learn to play by the rules and to understand what the game is about. The type of play is physical; this is when children use their bodies in most of the activity. The activity is for the children to learn how to work as a team and learn how to negotiate with each other. The risk is falling over each other and tripping over. The resources that are needed are colored bibs to separate teams, 2 goals and a ball. The reason why I am using these resources is because help them to recognize how to split teams.

A setting is an after school club the typical age range for an after school club is 4-7 years. The stage of play is cooperative play, this means that they can actively play together. By age 7 they can play games and understand rules and what the games is about. The type of play is manipulative play, this means it encourages children to build or fit equipment together. The activity is building a tower, in this activity children have to build a tower using Lego blocks. The challenge of this activity is teaching them to work with each other as a team and how to develop social skills. The resources needed are Lego blocks. The reason I am using these resources because it can help with their gross motor skills and their fine motor skills.

D5, A

A theory of play is Maria Montessori; Maria Montessori theory is discovery play. She believed that children benefited more from structured and challenging play instead of the pretend play. Montessori developed equipment that allowed children to experience different concepts such as shape, size and order. She also believed that furniture, equipment and materials should be child-sized. Montessori thought that children could learn being outdoors. Montessori theory of play affect adults understanding of children’s play because it teaches them that they should encourage children to problem-solve, explore and satisfy there curiosity on their own because this will help them learn and grow knowledge of the world around them.

B1,
Children benefit from play activities that provide challenge but helps them to understand risk because it helps them find their own boundaries in learning and games. Also children benefit from play activities that provide challenge but helps understand risk because it helps them test themselves in how far their willing to go to find out the risk in the activity. P.Tassoni quotes “sometimes, the challenges are physical ones where children seem to be testing themselves as they try to balance on a wall or climb a tree.”

As well as children can get bored of activates that don’t challenge them. This can cause children to be more risky in their play for example P.Tassoni quote “a climbing frame that is too small and therefore too easy may encourage children to try climbing up the slide.”

B2, A*
Adults can encourage exploration and investigation through play by finding ways to support children rather than simply teaching them, practitioners can help teach them about their environment, for example a mini beast hunt. This activity can help the explore the insects in the outdoors but also helps them investigate how mini-beast live and where they live. Also making treasure baskets full of sensory materials but on a higher scale to challenge the
Children. This will help them to explore new materials on feel, smell etc but also investigate where they come from.

Role of the adult when providing activities and supporting children’s play are:

Observing play:
By observing play the adult can get an idea on what level/step the child/children are at in their development of play. This help plan activities to help the children to reach there next step.

Planning activities:
By planning activities the adult can see what part of the curriculum that spefic activity will cover.
Asking question:
By asking children questions in what sort of activities they like doing, it will help the adult to provide activities that are fun for the children and that they will enjoy but not be bored easily at the same time.

When I started working with children and planning activities I only use to take in account the fun aspects and not the learning aspect to. Since I done unit 4 ‘children and play’ it’s helped me plan activities that are fun but also helps them to learn, as well as there set around the children’s stages of play.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tassoni, P (2007) childcare and education CACHE level 2, 3rd edition Oxford Heinemann Tassoni, P (2005) children’s care, Leaning & developing S/NVQ level 2 oxford Heinemann

Bibliography: Tassoni, P (2007) childcare and education CACHE level 2, 3rd edition Oxford Heinemann Tassoni, P (2005) children’s care, Leaning & developing S/NVQ level 2 oxford Heinemann