Play is an important part of children’s life that keeps them healthy both physically and mentally. It is a way through which children explore their imagination‚ build various skills required for their development in different areas. In this essay‚ importance of play in children’s learning and development is discussed in relation to Piaget’s cognitive theory‚ Vygotsky socio-cultural theory and Te Whaariki. Moreover‚ the teacher’s role and strategies used in encouraging the play-based curriculum in
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benefits of rough and tumble play in our society as it relates to healthy advances in adolescence. This paper will also explore how R & T play can be taught and used
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Task 1; 1.1-Explain the innate drive for children to play; Innate drive for children to play is very important because this is how children develop their skills and the different development stages throughout their life. Children are born with a natural drive for them to play. Play is a Psychological‚ Physiological and a Social need for them to have the impulse to have play. Also it is fundamental to the healthy development and it helps the well-being of individual’s and the different communities
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A significant part of the play Noises Off written by Michael Frayn‚ was the dysfunction of the characters and the use and importance of props. In this play‚ each character had a specific dilemma which caused the play to fail in a humorous manner. Additionally‚ props‚ such as sardines were such a significant aspect of the play and for the director. This all sounds silly‚ but the dysfunction and ridiculous props work well. Frayn constructed a farcical comedy around unusual aspects‚ and the humor and
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My classmates and I recently saw Watch on the Rhine by Lilian Hellman performed at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. The play was directed by Jackie Maxwell. The main characters were portrayed by Marsha Mason‚ Thomas Keegan‚ Lisa Bruneau‚ Andrew Long‚ J Anthony Crane‚ Natalia Payne‚ Ethan Miller‚ Heidi Kaplan‚ and Tyler Bowman. It was my first time seeing theater-in-the-round; it was an amazing experience. Theater-in-the-round is much more engaging and realistic than a proscenium stage. Along with
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Recently I attended The Broward college production of the play Season’s Greeting‚ the play takes place on Christmas Eve‚ Christmas Day‚ and Boxing Day. I was very skeptical going in because I was not sure if I would be walking in on a tacky Christmas play or an Alan Ayckbourn’s British comedy. They had a proscenium stage with‚ extended Apron which very disappointed me because it was extremely small‚ I sat in the center of the third row and the aesthetic distance between me and the performers were
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Almost Maine is a play by John Cariani and directed by Lesley Tutnick-Machbitz. Narrating nine short stories taken place in a small Maine town at the same time. Each story has a different theme varied of love‚ loss‚ and hope. With six show dates at Glendale Community College Performing Art Center‚ I was given the opportunity to be part of the run crew. I was able to observe the growth of the actors and see them transform into their characters through behavior‚ movement‚ and voice. The cast was
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baseball and eventually started playing town-ball for softball. I was getting to be a better player and my mom thought it would be a good idea for me to play travel ball. At first I didn’t like that idea because I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t think I was going to make it on the team. Luckily I did make the team and I loved the idea of getting to play softball all summer long. I enjoyed softball but then my coach had started to bench me and wouldn’t tell me why and I wanted to quit softball altogether
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Steps” the play I went. “ The 39 Steps” was a comical play that was over around the 60s.This play was very funny I enjoyed watching it. In this play they had actors play multiple parts in which made this really funny. Two of the actors went from being a performer on stage to cops to guys on the train. This just made the play in a whole funny. I wonder if they didn’t have enough people so they had to do that or that is just how the play is supposed to go. In this play you had a man go to a play that had
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Intro to Theatre Play Critique I went to the University Of North Carolina School of the Arts February 25‚ 2012 to see a production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was not the most stunning of performances as the director John Langs definitely deserves some blame. When I first sat down in my seat‚ I immediately looked around me and saw several people also in attendance for the play. Quite frankly‚ I was unsure of what to expect as the only other play I had gone to was a Broadway production in
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