Playgrounds

Everyone has goals they want to accomplish or complete in the future. Whatever it may be, if it's extremely important, that you must attain it, you will do all you can to achieve it. You will give it all you have to prevail, if you truly want to accomplish it. Having the passion and desire to succeed is what keeps me pushing to attain my goal. My goal is to play basketball in college; although, my ultimate goal is to play professional basketball for the WNBA (The Women's National Basketball…

Flowing cherry blossom petals are telling the end of spring. I was a middle school student in Japan who did not have any interest in playing sports. It was about lunch time, and everyone was eating lunch. I was eating my lunch and thinking what I am going to do for the rest of the lunch time. After I ate my lunch, I begun to walk around the campus of Oyaba middle school, the school that I spent two years of my precious adolescence, and I saw my friends, Shugo and Takumi, playing basketball at…

For my mini-ethnography, I decided to choose Harold A Henry Park, a park that is in the middle of Windsor Village and has been apart of that community for a while now. I picked this park because it has a great deal of meaning to me and is my neighborhood park. I grew up only a block away from this lovely park which is in the middle of a residential area. I use to walk to the park almost everyday and play soccer or in the jungle gym with all the other little kids who lived in the area, this park…

In the NPR story “Why Play Doesn’t End with Childhood,” Dr. Stuart Brown clearly defines what play is and how it can help adults to recess. It is very true that play is very necessary and important for adults to release all kinds of pressure from modern life and maintain their social wellbeing. I am well engaged in playing basketball – something that Dr. Brown would regard as play – and it helps me to relieve my stress, train my ability of teamwork and develop my analytical and strategic…

Want to become the best, turn your hero into your enemy, Practice until your body feels like you're bleeding of sweat . I believe that anybody can become a champion if they have confidence. I was little the age of 7 I started playing soccer I wasn’t very good at soccer but I but I still thought that I could get better and be very good at. When I hit 5’ 8 in 4th grade my Dad said I would have to play basketball, I knew he could see the disappointment in my face. He said that I was…

Middle school north has a rock wall, so why shouldn't middle school south have one too? A rock wall is a wall with handholds and footholds all over it where students can climb on it. The students at middle school south in lake Zurich Illinois would like a rock wall. A rock climbing wall has many learning benefits, low cost and Emotional benefits. Most importantly there are learning benefits. There are many learning benefits in having a rock climbing wall in school. "According to healthy…

Good morning Ms Gianotti and fellow classmates. For this term’s child studies assessment, I have designed a toy for 2-3-year-old called the “Art Geo Board”. The art geo board is a kids toy to encourage them to learn more about shapes, colours, numbers, alphabet, objects, pattern, counting and symmetry. It is a wooden board with pegs you can string rubber bands around and fairly simple to make and cheap fun. I made this toy for under $12 in materials and completed in less than an hour. Everything…

My observation will be on the behavior of kids interacting with other kids at the Boone’s playground. I will observe kids around 1pm on Monday. My hypothesis of my observation is that 65% of girls will interact with each other in the playground while only 35% of boys will interact at the Boone’s playground. I came up with this hypothesis because girls usually just sit around and just talk at the playground more than boys and the boys play sports than the girls. I chose this particular setting…

Playgrounds can be found all over neighborhoods, towns, and schools and provide an excellent way for children in early and middle childhood to develop and work on physical growth in a safe way. Children go through a sensitive period which is a point in development when organisms are susceptible to stimuli in their environments (Feldman, 2017). Gross and fine motor skills are able to be developed further through play in an environment such as parks and are different for children in the early and…

Playgrounds….playgrounds are a great part of childhood. They give joy and excitement to the young boys and girls that climb, slide, and explore them. The most familiar thing about playgrounds are the children and then swings.The annoying sound of the creaky chains moving back and forth. However, ever since I was 15 years old, it's haunted me to the bone. On a cold, wet October night my brother told me to be safe. He told me “James! Call me if you need me. I'm gonna be at Maddie’s, and Jack's…