importance of play for children between 4 and 6 Written by Tessa Batchelor Submitted to New Zealand College of Early Childhood Education 2011 This Booklet outlines the importance of the play curriculum and learning for children aged between 4 and 6 years. Creative‚ imaginative and physical play will be focused on as well as the adults’ role in the promotion of play and the importance of a positive environment for play and learning. Included in this will be examples of play opportunities
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THEORY OF PLAY Play is behaviour that humans and animals participate in to explore and learn in their environments. Humans are involved in play all their lives to learn and to have pleasure. Through play children‚ among other things‚ develop language that then is the basis for literacy skills that are taught at schools. Play develops a number of skills: Fine and gross motor skills Sensory knowledge (sight‚ hearing‚ taste‚ touch‚ exploration of space) Exploration of different roles
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Level 2 Child Care 1. The materials used in play‚ what the benefits are and examples. Creative play is when children use their imagination and artistic skills to create what they want whilst doing activities such as painting‚ drawing‚ sticking‚ cutting and play dough. The materials that are used in this play are colouring pencils‚ scissors‚ glue‚ paper‚ crayons‚ stamps‚ aprons‚ feathers and paints. Creative play helps develop math skills because when they are sticking they are seeing a variety
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A issue that is highly debated is that; should kids play sports? Some say they should and encourage it‚ other don’t approve of it and think it’s not the best idea. But overall‚ Children shouldn’t play sports because many kids get serious injuries‚ parents spend a lot of money on the activities‚ and the time that they spend on sports takes away from other important timer activities. One reason that a child should not play a sport is because many of them get hurt. FOr example‚ statistics show that
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fEATURE THE BENEFITS OF PLAY Play has positive implications for cognitive developmen Play stimulates children’s imagination‚ aids problem-solving and contribules 10 children’s creativity. The important role of exploratory play has been confirmed Both scholars and praditioners argue that by neuroscience. According to Mustard (20051‚ ploy-based learning‚ if ’properly ’play is pedagogy’; but‚ otthe same time‚ designed‚ is actually problem-based learning ... one of the best strotcgics
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Play in Aistear and Síolta‚ the national curriculum and quality frameworks The research is so clear about the benefits of play that in Ireland we have established play as central to the early childhood curriculum. Both Aistear‚ the national curriculum framework from the National Council For Curriculum and Assessment‚ and Síolta‚ the national quality framework from the Dept. of Education‚ emphasise the importance of play in the home and in early education settings. Aistear tells us that engaging
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I believe … I believe … Teaching Resources For The Nicene Creed & The Apostles’ Creed Teaching Resources For The Nicene Creed & The Apostles’ Creed Teacher Background What is a Creed? A creed is a set of words. It says what a person or group believes in‚ and helps express the identity of the group. It is a faith put into words. Throughout its long history‚ the Catholic Church has pursued a deeper understanding of Jesus and his message. Driven by the human need to name
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Freely chosen‚ self directed play. Refer back to assignment 1. The play cycle A play cycle begins in the pre conscious thoughts of the child‚ it is at the point of daydream where the playful impulse is created and given out as the play cue. Once this cue is taken up by a responding partner the play cycle begins. The metalude signals the start of the play process and while it supports a single play thought in the Childs consciousness it can change in seconds to become another playful thoughts or
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time for activities that improve the mind‚ such as reading and doing word puzzles. Other people feel that it is important to rest the mind during leisure time. • You should write at least 250 words. • You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. In generally‚ people agree that leisure time is important for everyone. We feel tried ourselves after the work‚ the study‚ than we want to spend little time for doing what we want. However‚ everyone like to do another types of activity. Some people
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Unit 303 Support learning activities In the class I work in there a 9 pupils age ranging from 5 – 6 years old. All the children are from different generic groups. Art is the specific activity I have chosen to write about‚ our topic for this term is winter/cold. We are all going to support the children to do mosaic/collage pictures representing cold. The particular child I was working with is diagnosed PMLD and has more vision in her left eye than her right eye. I prepared the different
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