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Title: Benefits of Play and its importance

Shakeena N. Robinson

ECE 203 Intro to Curriculum & Instruction for the Early Child Classroom

Intructor: Renea Buss

Sept.10,2015

PLAY

Play is an important factor in a classroom it allows children to be active learners, not robots.

SENSORY PLAY

smell

hearing

touch

sight

taste

An Example: Playing different sounds from different animals and children identify what animal makes that sound.

CONSTRUCTION PLAY

Hands on

Using what they know and see to build things out of partially anything

Example: Children use legos and bricks to build tall towers, houses, cars and so on.

DRAMATIC PLAY

Role play

pretending to be someone different from themselves

Example : Student wants to be a doctor. Set up the room as a doctor setting with a stuffed animals or toy. Child will began to take care of the patient with her proper tools as a doctor.

National Association for the Education of Young Children

  • Play is supported by NAEYC.
  • NAEYC agrees that play will help children succeed not only in school but in life.
  • “Play apparently serves important physical, mental, emotional and social functions for humans and other species and each kind of play has its own benefits and characteristics.

Working together …

promotes sharing of teaching strategies

increases student goals

promotes usage of data to provide attention where help is needed

helps make connections across curriculum to help students learn more efficiently