Lessons from books are great, but children learn through play far better than they do in other forms. There are several reasons for this. At the heart of it is their desire to learn. When learning is not so much work but is fun, children are more willing to participate. They want to jump in and have a good time. As a parent, the more that you can teach through play, the more that your child will retain later on. While some skills need to be taught formally, such as math facts and reading, there are still great ways to teach through play.
Children learn through various methods, but often their physical and social world teaches them the most. Even small infants learn this way. Parents can enhance a young child’s learning process by giving them a variety of ways to learn through sight, touch, taste and smell. For infants, play the games that children love, such as peek a boo and other interactions that teach cause and effect. It also teaches them how to interact socially with their families.
As children grow older, they still need stimulation. Remember, kids having fun gives them an added incentive to do the activity you want them to. Pretend play is one of the core elements of the development of imagination. Pack up a truck full of great costumes (you can pick these up very inexpensively after Halloween) and encourage both boys and girls to play. What you will find is that many of the role playing games they play now are direct reflections of the experiences they have had. For example, a child who may be going to daycare for the first time, may practice leaving her baby doll at a pretend daycare. The act is helpful, but the conversations they have of telling the doll that “mommy will be back very soon” will help them later to deal with their fears of being left. Encourage this type of play.
Child’s play through the years changes even more so. During preschool and kindergarten, one of the best ways to teach a child is through stories and pictures. They learn to interact with each other as well as with the outside world. For example, set the stage for a great adventure story. Read them the story during the morning hours. Then, give them a few ideas and let them act out the story in their own way. You can teach many of the fundamentals in this manner, everything from manners to helping those in need.
Other activities to encourage helping children learn through play include:
· Craft projects: they explore their talents and explore texture, dimension, color and shapes
· Dance: They explore their physical bodies and stay physically fit
· Building with blocks: Everything from wooden blocks to Lego’s helps children to learn structure, dimension, balance, and help them to grow their imagination.
· Drawing: Use various types of mediums from paints to pencil to help them to learn numbers, letters, shapes and much more
These activities can incorporate other skills, too. For example, perhaps an art project can center around a specific letter of the alphabet. Do not be elaborate, but do be dramatic.
Kids having fun is something you definitely want to consider for the long term. For example, children who are nine years old and up need to develop great reasoning skills and need to learn to think strategically. They also need to develop good social skills. Great ways for kids having fun through these lessons can be anything from fun science projects to advanced building sets done in teams and even 3-D puzzles. Encourage computer projects and video games as well. Unbelievably, the video game they love to play is teaching them great hand eye coordination (assuming that the content within it is appropriate.)
How children learn through play is really up to you, their parent. Encouraging them to play, pretend, and learn all go hand in hand. The skills most children learn at these early ages are not just their math facts and their ABC’s, but they are the foundations of how to learn, how to interact with other people, and how to explore, reason and strategize. These items will carry on with them throughout their lives.
Ivana Katz
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/how-children-learn-through-play-714255.html
do children learn through play?
do you believe that children learn through play?
would you agree with this statement…
"play is a central force in young childrens development….it fosters emotional, social, intellectual and linguistic development"
if you do or do not agree with this..why?
Yes they do.
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yes they do!!!!!!!!!!!
idk how explane
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Yes, children learn through play. I do agree with this statement.
The reason for this is take for example: when children play with small blocks they are learning how to use their fine motor skills they will learn gross motor skills when playing with large blocks.
Emotional: When children play with dolls, babies, and even a stuffed bear, they are learning how to be affectionate, caring, nurturing, and loving.
Social: Just playing with the other children will enhance this skill.
Intellectual: When children interact with others, count marble or other small object, see letters on toys, see colors on toys and acknowledge them they are enhancing their intellectual skills.
Linguistic: When children play with telephones and others (teachers, parents, other children or family members) they are enhancing their skills in this area.
I hope I answered your question.
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Of course they do. It’s impossible to sit 3-5 yr old children and lecture them. They’re just not wired to do that, they can’t even sit still for a few minutes(specially the 3 year olds).
Through play they develop and master the ‘whole child.’ Play is a great way for children to learn and develop academic skills, but also emotional, sensory, cognitive, and motor skills.
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Child Development student, working at a Preschool to attain my associates.
children learn through I would say 100%
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Yes children do learn, I am studying to become a teacher and I have just completed an assignment on how children learn through play.
I learnt a lot, children not only learn to socialise with others, they learn maths and language development, I used many shape, colours and sizes of things and children could form the above into seperate groups in many different ways, their were many things I learnt about the young boys and girls, and what they were capable of and believe me play is an amazing learning tool, I think it is actually the best way to begin teaching children in all learning areas.
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Personal knowledge
yes
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of course thay do, otherwise how would they learn anything>?
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any play is like a video or movie!!!!!!!!!!1
even hours after you have see it you are actually thinking about that particular movie!!!!
mind works like that espacially for kids,,, they assosiate their feeling and emotions with the play and hence do tend to rember the lesson!!!!!!!
SO MY ANSWER YES KIDIES AND EVEN OLDIES LEARN THROUGH PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Play in Every Classroom
I passionately feel that all people learn best in the context of playful fascination, in a context wherein the learning is more important that producing a “pretty object” or a single “right” answer. I especially feel that these strategies need to be employed within university walls, particularly in human development, child development, and in all areas of teacher preparation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear your words”. Educators of future educators need to model passion for learning, and present appropriate play based curriculum, if the result they desire is authentic meaningful learning in every learning context from the youngest age into graduate school.
When people are relaxed, happy, and feel safe, they actually are willing to take broad learning risks. It is inside of cognitive risk taking that the most profound assimilation of information to an individual’s working body of knowledge occurs. Learners who value a mistake as an opportunity to learn, instead of fearing death by letter grade, embark freely on the path of the learning adventure. Play is a safe context for risk. “Errors in the learning process are natural steps to understanding” (Jean Piaget).
My personal life goal is to have people lining up for classes the way they line up for a music or sports event. This can happen. The strategy we can employ as educators is to take Baumrind’s democratic parenting approach into classroom management by treating our students with respect and positive expectations.
A minute of life is a precious commodity. As teachers it is our responsibility to make the minutes learners spend with us worth it. Worksheets, busy work, and punitive testing are ineffective ways to engage students in the learning process.
I look forward to meaningful discussion about curriculum, testing vs hands on curriculum, play at any level of learning, feedback regarding my book, or any meaningful discussion of related subject matter.
Renée Berg
co-author Practical Kindergarten
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