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Young children learn and grow everyday. Especially, young children, the ages three years to five years old, learn important skills while they play with friends and interact with their teachers. Janice J. Beaty (2014) states that for young children, “play is their way of learning” (p. 167) Thus, teachers need to observe children while they play and assess the development of the child because “Knowing the development of a young child helps a teacher to plan the curriculum, to set up activities for individuals, or to ask for special help when necessary” (Beaty, 2014, p. 3). For example, Draco is a boy who attends at the preschool program, the Elk Creek Elementary School in the Garfield Re2 District, Colorado, and the development of Draco is thriving …show more content…

Draco has a good coordination of large motor skills and small motor skills because he uses the both skills in order to put the puzzles of the tracks together. Playing with puzzles is a great activity to promote the small motor skills because it requires “hand-rotating skill” (Beaty, 2014, p. 148) and “perceptual awareness (I.e., what the piece looks like) is also at work” (Beaty, 2014, p. 149). Beaty (2014) states, “These puzzles offer excellent practice for finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination, as well as the cognitive concept of matching shapes and part-to-whole relationships” (p. 149). Draco performs the complex motor skills of large and small motor skills and cognitive skills while he plays with the train. Additionally, Draco demonstrates his cognitive skills when he plays the fishing game with his friend. The fishing game use the cards that have pictures of objects and different colors of fishes; therefore, in order to play the game, children need to identify the object and colors. “Naming colors is a function of language development in which children must link a visual image with a recalled name” (Beaty, 2014, p. 171). Identifying the objects and colors is one of the cognitive development that young children

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