When children are playing it is essential that you allow them to explore their interests and ensure they have the space and time to do so. Children will be drawn to specific activities. Children will learn and develop more when they are discovering and exploring their interests as they will be more involved and willing to take part. When planning activities in a setting staff should work on activities that cover the children’s areas of interests enabling them to learn and develop
Children need to experiment outdoors as there is so much to learn. Children can learn in each of the areas and develop their skills. During play children are learning to socialise with each other, playing in small groups and taking turns which builds there confidence up. They also develop their motor skills through playing outdoors, running, jumping, walking and crawling. Children will learn to take risks
As an early years practitioner you will recognise that children’s play is closely linked to their learning and development. Children learn in so many different ways but you will notice that they learn mainly through play. When children are able to do many different activity’s that allows them to lean but have fun at the same time thy will find what they are doing fun and will engage the children. It is important that when in you your setting you set up a variety of educational activity’s this way the children will be able to choose freely what they want to do.
The team needs to be aware of all the children situations, to all work in the same direction and provide a common and strong support or pace of action. Moreover, through observing kid’s needs, the team can share what they have spotted and thereafter set the play setting according to their needs, likes and dislikes. At the same time, the team is responsible to act collaboratively to keep the space safe and “organised” for the kids to enjoy fully of their time to play and take the most of it, for the same reason the team needs to be ready to respond, trigger and challenge to children’s cues.
5.1: Explain the importance of play to children’s learning and development and the need for an inclusive approach.
may react to other children and also their future experiences. Activities within the setting need to be
It important to always have activities that are developmentally appropriate or can be altered to be appropriate for the child
It is essential to include all the levels of the Activity Pyramid in lesson plans because it supports children’s learning. Because children learn best when they engage in their chosen activity and hands-on experiences, an exploratory activity plays huge role in their learning. However, in order to promote a balanced development of a child, the child need to explore the learning opportunities that are not their prefer activities as well.
It is also important to consider the needs of all the children when doing your planning to ensure that the activities are suitable.
There is a part in the handbook, learning and teaching play. Play involves the holistic child, from the physical, psychological, intellectual, social, and emotional. Either by working independently or group work. Play is now a big part of the curriculum as doesn’t just help with the teaching side, but it also gives the children a way to relax and be themselves, and to express their feelings or what is going on in their life through play. (http://ccea.org.uk accessed on 29th November 2016)
I enjoyed my classroom and the age of children that I worked with, and used play based activity for overall development of the children. I found that children are very innocent and lovely. From this work environment, I have learned that understanding children’s interest and skills and providing them age appropriate materials are very important. Teaching them according to their interest is beneficial for the children to learn quickly.
Children can learn through play how to take turns, problem solving, decision making and many more, childrenâ€TMs imagination is
Whether children should take part in organized activities or engage in creative and imaginative play is arguable on both fronts. Creative play allows for more independent thinking and gives a child the ability to engage in activities that they choose to do, and learn how to solve their own problems, rather than activities they are directed to do, which hinders their ability to solve problems on their own. Organized activities allow children to enage in activities in which they would play a part in a larger group, which allows for a child to feel more involved and important. Although both sides are arguable, allowing a child to take time to spend on creative play will allow for the individual to learn about themselves and their personal interests.
There are many different key issues to consider when creating an enabling environment where the children can play and learn. The key issues to consider are the role of the adult, the stages and types of play, if the play is structured or unstructured, if the play is planned or free choice. The framework and guidelines to follow are important to consider too. I believe that the two main key issues to consider here are the role of the adult and if the play is structured or unstructured. I have chosen these two key issues as I feel they are most relevant and important to what I am discussing.
Planning for individual children’s needs is the easy way of observing children, easy of looking at of children’s practice, listening to children to find out how the children is developing his/herself, what the children like to do and what children is learning through his/her play and the experiences of offer. It is very important that parents and practitioners sharing what they know about these things so that they can agree whether the child’s development is at the expected stage. They can also agree if the resources such as toys and equipment are suitable for the child and to focus them on what to offer in coming to support the child to develop new interests, learn new skills and get new knowledge. The observations of children are extremely important, because every single child has a unique set of abilities and talents and
There are many values and principles which underpin children and young people 's play and learning including children 's views this means hearing the children 's voice, thoughts, view and opinions. Listening to what the children have to say because it may have an effect on the environment which will make it more child like challenging. By having a stimulating environment it will enable the children to explore investigate take risks as well as playing and learning. Children and young people will achieve better if they are involved in the planning explaining what they would like. The Welsh Assembly Government believes that "play is so critically important to all children in the development of their physical, social, mental, emotional and