It also helps children by improving their creativity, imagination, self-expression, problem solving, language, literacy and their social-emotional growth. Playing with blocks also gives children an opportunity to explore spatial, mathematical, and role-play possibilities. Briefly describe 2 changes you would make to the physical design of the classroom to promote optimal learning through play? 1. 2.…
“Would I Let My Son Play Football?” There are many sports out there that are both fun and at the same time, very dangerous. One of the most controversial sports is football. There have been parents who have gone against letting their children participate in football because of the heavy injuries that could take place in this sport while others are perfectly fine with letting their children participate in this head-strong sport. The question that has been jumping around is ‘Would I Let My Son Play Football?”.…
Formal Operations Stage begins at the age of 11 and onward. Kids who enter this stage gain the ability to think and solve abstract problems. Kids can think in a more creative manner, solve math equations and can visualize the outcome of certain issues or problems. For instance, if a child is punished for something he committed such as sneaking out of the house.…
Letting your child's imagination roam wild is great for the child's health. It allows them to express their freedom and themselves without all the rules they have to fallow on a daily basis, basically they make their own rules. This helps them become more creative when it comes to problem solving ideas. " As children use their…
Adam is our first-born child and really has amazed us since day one. Even as a young baby, he was always very curious. At only six months he would love to sit and read books. He would curiously sit through several books at a time.…
I believe that it is important for children to participate in both organized activities and engage in creative play but unfortunately, creative play can benefit children a lot more by allowing them to express themselves and come up with their own activities. For example, during my childhood I would go out with my friends to the park and we would become as imaginative as possible. We would come up with games like hide and seek, cops and robbers, freeze tag, and many other creative activities. To add on why it is more important for children to engage in creative play, is because children need to choose activities based on their own interest. Rather than forcing them into random programs that are controlled by adults, which can hinder a child's…
With bullying, cyber-bullying, and other threats on the rise it is time to stop doing things how they want to do it, and do things to prevent the above mentioned. Organized activities could possible keep a kid out of trouble or it could cause an encounter that would make them a troublemaker. Creative play fosters independance, imagination, social skills, etc.…
Some people think that competitive sports can be healthy and fun for children but others think that they can be harmful. Research shows that children should play competitive sports because they are healthy for them. This is because they are life skillfully important for children however, sports can bring more injuries for children and their safety could be in danger. Sports are beneficial to children because they teach life lessons that every child should know. In the article “Get Off that Couch and Play” Lucy Calkins is the author.…
I think it is very important for children to play creatively, I grew up play creatively and the skills I learned help me in alot of situations. Most children go through stages trying to find themselves and by playing creativley helps. They would learn as they play instead of being told what to do or having instuction. Orgainized activities would be for children who dont like playing outside and enjoying using their imaginations. Everything they would do is already planned it would take away the adventure of being a kid.…
It encourages children to explore, have a go, build on what they know, increase concentration, be creative, problem solving.…
It allowed and encouraged me to meet an engage with new friends, socialize with others younger and older, and respect adult supervision and direction, along with being proud of the boys, even if they did not win. My self-esteem and self-respect was high on the scale of love and happiness. Play definitely aided in making me a well- rounded child that grew with me into adulthood. I was learning verbal, visual traits on concentration and co-operation. Develops imagination, and iall the learning standards for development.…
The players negotiate and create rules that work for them both. Through the experiences children have opportunities for cognitive and social learning (Kieff & Casbergue, 2000). The final element of play is mental activity. During play it is important for children minds to be actively constructing and reconstructing meaning related to their world (Kieff & Casbergue,…
In a globalized world, people are gradually aware of the benefits of mastering of new tongue, such as more knowledge, more opportunities in massive life and even more chances to develop themselves. Being a bilingual can help people broaden their mind by approaching a huge fund of knowledge from all over the world through foreign documents, books and news in a proactive way with no language obstacle. As a result, this might lead people seeing the world from a different point of view.…
Who knows what qualities something must have to be called a sport? Do we have a list of clearly defined points that are used to judge an activity to know if it is or isn’t a sport? Well I bring this up due to the controversial topic of “Esports aren’t really a sport” and how I disagree with this popular viewpoint. Esports have many traits that are found in other socially accepted sport such as football when a large group is required to work in a coordinated fashion under ample amounts of stress in short periods of time. This is only one of many similarities that Esports shares with other sports that will be discussed.…
The number of language games and ideas for games available nowadays is infinite, so teachers have a lot to choose from, but how? To pick out methods should be used in order to decide which games should be used and are most suitable for their students, many factors must be taken into account. As said by Carrier (1990) educators must think about the level of the game that would be appropriate their students' language level, as well as making sure it fits the purposes of the content and taking in to consideration the traits of the students, such as age and motivation for learning. Also when a game is used is something to focus on, for example is the class in the morning or afternoon, whether it is the beginning of the week or Friday.…