ASSIGNMENT 2 PLAY ACTIVITY INTRODUCTION This assignment is called Play activity. It is worth 30% of the overall grade of the module Early Childhood Education. As part of the assessment criteria of this assignment I must complete a play activity to a group o children aged between 0-6 years. WORK PLACE I have been starting to work in Crèche X in Donnybrook area since two weeks ago (as a full time). I have been in a free trial‚ then part time till they decided I can start full time. I
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Indoor Activity #1: Date and Time of Observation: 10/24/14 8:45 am Number of Participants (including subject): Play of choice (Play house and blocks)‚ 4 Participants (Christine Included) Duration of Activity: Start: 9:15am End: 10:10amA thorough description of the play dynamics: As Christine is playing with 3 girls she seems to be enjoying that free time very well. Christine is using her gross motor skills to build blocks and seems to be building perfectly except for one thing
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Play therapy is a counseling technique that uses objects such as toys‚ clay‚ or sand trays to help both adults and children solve problems that they may face on a daily basis. Play therapy also promotes social development. During play therapy sessions‚ the counselors observe and reflect the child’s behavior. Since children cannot verbally express their feelings like adults‚ play therapy is very effective for them because it allows them to express themselves through toys. The more I work with
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forms play can take. Kids play in different ways as they grow. Certain types of play are associated with‚ but not restricted to specific age groups. Unoccupied play: In the early months of infancy‚ from birth to three months‚ the children seem to be making movements with no clear purpose‚ but this is the start of playing. Solitary play: from three to eighteen months‚ babies will spend much of their time playing on their own. During solitary play‚ children are very busy with play and may
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two categories of play discussed by Hopperstad is play with the graphic results of drawing which refers to the results of a drawing where the child interacts and convert a way to process the whole stage of visual. Also‚ this play provides the opportunity to put together the possible relationships between visual graphic and the transformation. Furthermore‚ children are expose to everyday life situations where they can perform activities of drawing relating to them. Also‚ children communicate by using
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prepare her for a long weekend of make-up‚ hairspray‚ and gowns. Jessica is one of the thousands of babies forced into the many children’s beauty pageants each year. Sharon is among the many over-demanding parents who pressure their young and innocent children into beauty pageants each year and this is wrong. Beauty pageants were started many years ago but became more prominent in the society in 1921‚ when a hotel owner started a contest to keep tourists in town past Labor Day. The winner of this contest
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Listening to Children - Chapter 3 Children’s Fears When a child expresses a fear to an adult‚ it may seem trivial to the adult because the adult knows so much more about reality. However‚ we must remember that the child is honestly troubled and frightened. For the adult to downplay the child’s fears‚ does not acknowledge their right to have these feelings. When an adult truly listens to a child describe their fears‚ they can help the child to learn to confront and cope with them. Learning
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Carlos Cruz Professor Bucher Enc1102 17 Feb. 2012 Children as Consumers Experts estimate that two- to fourteen-year-olds sway over $500 billion a year in household purchasing (Calvert 205). So is consumerism the backbone of the U.S. economy? Children who live in developed countries have a variety of products to choose from. These products are introduced to children by advertising. These advertisements are everywhere from TV to even inside schools. Corporations’ main goal is to sell their products
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Montessori Teacher Training Work/Play Balance – a Montessori Perspective I recently read an alarming article from Michael Conlon of Reuters‚ entitled‚ U.S. school children need less work‚ more play: study. Conlon contends that there is a growing trend in U.S. public schools of reducing free time "because many school districts responded to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by reducing time committed to recess‚ the creative arts‚ and even physical education in an effort to focus on reading
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School Setting When children begin to start at a day-care or preschool it is a major change for the child and their family. This is the opening to a whole new beginning for the child. Educators usually choose education as a profession because they love children‚ but being a teacher is more than that. We need to look at children in the context of their family and the family in the context of the community. Teacher would then need to have a connection with the children‚ family‚ and community
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