Play Time

Playscotland.org (n.d.), “play is often called the ‘work’ of children”. There is a plethora of things that children learn from play. First, play provides growth in all developmental domains. This developmental growth includes cognitive, emotional, physical, and social domains (“The Importance of Play,” (n.d.). Cognitive development includes language skills and combining different ideas to create new ones (Sohn, 2015; “The Importance of Play,” n.d.). Emotionally, play can provide children…

Stages of Play Through play, children learn more about themselves and everything around them. They pick up on how to share, take turns, and socialize when they reach higher levels of play. Kids don’t all play the same way, even when they are in the same age group. They go through different stages of play as they grow and develop. In the early 1900’s, Jean Piaget, studied children on how they learn step-by-step through experience with their surroundings in four stages of play. In the 1930’s…

believe in basketball. I have many experiences with basketball. I starting in 6th grade. The first time I have ever played was in gym and I never got to get my hands on the ball because I was the smallest one. I was really bad so nobody passed me the ball. The people who were in my gym class played basketball for a long time. I am still trying my hardest and persevering through the hard times. I also played a summer league when I was 11. Basketball is not just a sport to me it is more then…

the summer I did not do much at all. One thing I did do is play a lot of video games and binge watch shows and fixing Skyrim. There was this one game I played called ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ for the Playstation 4 (PS4). It had been on my overwhelming list of games I want to play and games I just want to have in my collection. The game itself took a huge chunk out of the money I had saved up for the summer. More the reason to spend time playing it otherwise it would be a waste of sixty dollars…

Written analysis of Act 3 of the play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen Ghosts, written in 1881 by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, was first performed in its original language in Sweden at Helsingborg in 1883, and was translated and performed in Chicago in May, 1882. Ghosts was a play that received many negative criticisms because of its themes of “individual freedom and self-realization by social and institutional forces: by commercial hypocrisy, religious intolerance, political expediency…

Throughout Thornton Wilder's play “Our Town” he showcases different aspect he adds to his plays and the various theme's he incorporates into them as well. Such of these aspects is how Wilder created this play by simply using the Stage Manager to not only narrate the play, but also a way to make much like an ordinary citizen of Grover’s Corner. Finally Wilder created different themes throughout his play each theme was to match it’s own act such as life, love and ending with death as the final…

guidance for the support for play, learning and development and how these are used in my placement. The legislation that will be explored in this report will be the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and how this reinforces Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (UNCRC). This report will examine how these frameworks support the role of play, pedagogical approaches, evaluation of play, learning and…

children do. Victorian Era children played with different, as well as similar toys and games that were made if ways according to your wealth. A great example of this is with skipping ropes, also known as jumping ropes today, were a very popular toy to play with in the Victorian Era. Rich families would have expensive, hand carved handles for their ropes while poor families would make their own (Victorian Toys and Victorian Games). Though Victorian Era children played with many toys and games,…

respect child’s play, which makes a playing child “a head taller” than his or her actual height (Vygotsky, 1980) “(Berger). Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, physical, and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. Through play, children at a very early age engage and interact in the world around them. There are two different types of play, Pretend play which occurs when the child is alone, then there is also social play.…

I have seen a difference in play between older children and preschoolers. Though the difference is slight, there are still some subtle difference I’ve observed during some of my experiences. One difference I see is as the child gets older, they seem to have a bigger imagination. With the bigger imagination, they are able to have more conversations with themselves and others they are playing with. Many of the other things I’ve observed go along with the characteristics that Bergen and…