Play allows children to use creativity while developing their imagination. It also allows children to practice, elaborate on, and perfect skills. The first year of life, children uses their sensory and motor skills to explore their own bodies. The second year the progress to manipulating objects in the environment. Play serves as a tool of the mind to help children master their behavior. Play also can be an important educational strategy for facilitating children's development in cognitive, social/emotional, motor, and language areas. Play also provides a base for building language. It builds children's confidence and potential. The function is to encourage children to make up the rules to govern their own interactions and stimulate them to focus on the meaning behind human social interaction. Play is an activity that is dependent upon and respectful of individual children's learning space. It reveals not only what a child knows but also what they are curious about.
Tsao, Ling-Ling. (2002). How Much Do We Know about the Importance of Play in Child Development? Review of Research. Childhood Education, 78(4), 230-33.
I like how you mentioned what happens in the different years of life. It is also interesting that it helps too develop basic language, and builds a nice structure for the child. Does current activity help these things more than others?It is very interesting that play has that much of an impact on how a child is.
ReplyDeleteI like that you mentioned that it's the children's choices on what they are curious about. They should let the child find out for themselves what they enjoy to do. I liked that you mentioned they learn respect for others learning space in their proximity.
ReplyDeleteI like how you really went into detail about how play affects a child. Your summary was very clear and concise. You really made it stand out that play affects how well a child learns and expresses what they learned. You also mentioned how it is important for their own self esteem/confidence. I think that this was a super important point that you made and its something that a lot of people forget about or overlook.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting how you added the different years of life to show how each year a child learns a new skill and how it comes from play. I definitely agree with how playing allows a child to be social and develop life skills because it is true and without it kids can grow up with social problems and cause anger problems in the future. Its definitely interesting how much play can impact a kid.
ReplyDeleteThis summary is different from other blogs because you added each year of the child's life and how they don't play the same as they age.
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