Did you know…
Play is one of the most important ways children learn?
In the popular Exchange book, Play: A Beginnings Workshop Book, Betty Jones, in her article "The Play's the
Thing: Styles of Playfulness", notes the many ways children
learn through play...
- to make appropriate choices among many possibilities.
- to use their
imagination, to improvise, to think flexibly, and explore new options.
- to be aware of
their own real interests, without being distracted by other possibilities:
to say "yes" and to say "no."
- to solve
problems, both with materials and with people.
- to cooperate
with other children in the creation of mutually satisfying projects.
- to work through
their feelings in creative, non-destructive ways.
- to pay attention
to a project until it's done.
- to use something
— a dramatic action, a word, a toy, a set of blocks, a collection of marks
on paper — to represent something else — a real experience, a powerful
feeling. Practice in these sorts of representation is essential in the
process of becoming literate, which is another form of representation.
- to see
themselves as competent and interesting people, with useful skills and
good ideas.
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