Children should be provided more time for creative play. I think this because they help devolop many skills they will need. The older they get the more important these skills will become. People will argue by saying that organized activities help children be more responsible. Which may be true but the skills that creative play creates are more important to learn at that young age. I will talk about the skills they learn, why their cruicial to learn at that age, and why it benifits them more. After learning about my topic's you will agree with me too. To start off, I will talk about what skills creative play helps children devolop. Some are self expression, critical thinking, problem-solving, and independent thinking which are just a few of the skills they will devolop. Many will argue and say they won't learn how to be resposible adults, But as children they should'nt be resposible for much. They will have time later in their life like high school to join organized activities and devolop those skills at an age where they will be needed more.Also creative play helps them learn as they play. I stongly believe in this becasue children love to play. …show more content…
As children are young they like to use their imagination which they will use in creative play. Organized activities don't require much or no immagination at all. Many will argue and say that organized activitie skills will be required at a young age too. I disagree because, as we get older we start doing more organized activities and participating on teams. The skills that they help devolop are needed more when we are older and are going to find jobs and have to move out and be responsible adults. We can agree organized activities skills are needed but not at such a young age. This is why I believe as children they should be offered more creative play
Wasserman (1992, p135) describes five benefits of play: children are able to create something new, take risks, avoid the fear of failure, ... ... middle of paper ... ... ocial development. Different types of play promote different aspects of social development such as social competence, achievement of sense of self and social perspective-taking skills. However, play is not the single causal factor that promotes a child’s social development.
Early childhood teachers often say that “play is a child’s work” while some parents ask ‘Did my child just play all day?’” (Rice 1). Many people do not realise how important play is and what role it plays in the development of their children. Teachers provide opportunities for children to have spontaneous, unstructured child-initiated play experiences by providing stimulating materials to “enhance and entice children into play” (Rice 2). These materials include loose parts and are open-ended and spark creativity by providing children opportunities to think, plan, and carry out their play (Rice 2). Limited learning may take place if teachers do not make play easier and maximize the benefits (Rice 2). Teacher support is also a necessary component
...s imagination. I also plan on saving this essay and using it in my preschool classroom in the future; unless the district or supervisor calls for it, all technology in the room will be controlled by me and will be used strictly for teaching purposes. My children will not only know the value of play, but will get to experience it hands on.
Many children enjoy outdoor play, all aspects of development and learning are related in play. When children have ample time to play, their style of play will grow in how complex and also socially demanding it will become, for example as children maybe grow older they will choose who they will want in their friendship groups to play with them. As children play they are able to explore different materials in their environment and also discover different properties. As play continues children are able to use their knowledge of materials to play imaginatively with
Creative play has some very big building aspects to it, Imagination is key to successfully setting goals. Without an healthy imagination a goal would not exsist, if i said my goal is to be a racecar driver, i would not set that goal if i didnt imagine how fun and exciting the career would be. Creative play also supports a social aspect. When a child is playing with his/her friends, they have an infinate number of choices to choose from (the sky is the limit). They can build fort, pretend the carpet in the house is hot lava, and create there own form of games.
It has been said that creative activites let a child have a better opportunity to be an independent thinker and express themselves. That they learn leadership skills that can help them in later in life with jobs and careers. In games with more imagination, like plays, they get to put themselves in someone elses shoes and have a better understanding of that person.
An Article by Dr. Leong and Dr. Bodrova (2016) stated that play is beneficial to children’s learning especially when it reaches a certain degree of complexity. When they engage in play activities most of their early years, they learn to delay gratification and to prioritize their goals and actions. They also learn to consider the perspectives and needs of other people and to represent things significantly to regulate their behavior and actions in a cautious, intentional way.
All children play and it is something that most children do because they are having fun, but without realising children are developing and learning skills when they are engaged in play. Play helps stimulate the mind as it is practical and gives children the chance to explore and experience new situations. It can also ensure that children get to think by themselves and be spontaneous as they control their own play. Children get the chance to be creative and imaginative which develops independence for children. Play is vital for child development and helps children develop five main areas of development:
Like all young children, a child enjoys the pleasure of play. However, many people have different views on play and what it is used for. First of all, many parents and teachers think that play is beneficial to young children in many ways. It teaches them basic skills they need to learn in life such as cooking or housekeeping. This type of role play helps exercise their creativity and serves as a “rehearsal for adult life” (Lester and Russell). It provides them with the skills needed for them to grow as independent adults. Say, a child is pretending to run a grocery store. Another child comes by the store and picks up an empty carton of milk. Children often experiment with numbers and prices and manipulate them to either create a sense of being “grown up” or to cause a reaction. With this being said, the child running the store charges
Children have a natural inclination to play, alongside a natural instinct to learn and to be curious and inventive, which are characteristics of the human race in general. This quote taken from Janet Moyles is a good starting point for this essay. It is well known that children love to play. If a child were to be left to his/her own devices they would happily play and create new worlds anywhere they were left. It has been well documented and researched that children learn excellently through play. However they are not always given the opportunity to do so, instead being told to, ‘finish your work and then you can go play’. Obviously this is not always the case, but the fact that it is a common practice shows that we do not all fully appreciate the importance of play to children’s learning. This essay will attempt to show how children learn through play, making reference to current theory and practice. I will also give examples from my own first-hand experience of how children learn and develop as people through play.
What is play? Play is defined as engaging in activates for enjoyment & recreation rather than a serious practical purpose. Playing is a disorganized voluntary spontaneous activity, which may include objects, one’s body, symbol usage, and relationships. Play is flexible, individualize, grouped, motivating, self-directed, open-ended, or self-directed. (Smith, 2013) (Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, 2010)
Article 2 The second article about working with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds that I have chosen to review is ‘Supporting Sociodramatic Play in Preschools to Promote Language and Literacy Skills of English Language Learners’ by Rashida Banerjee, Amani Alsalman, and Shehana Alqafari, in the Early Childhood Education Journal in June of 2015. Main Topic and Ideas The main topic and ideas in this article relate to the fact that children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are more likely to be at risk for language and communication delays. Language and communication are key elements of the early literacy skills children need to develop.
I was a pretty normal child. I like to play with friends and family. I would make up what I wanted to do and play house. I also liked to play supermarket. Librarian, and Doctor. I got to be whatever we wanted. It was all pretend though. As, I was watching the video’s for unit six, the video, Tales of Creativity and Play by Tim Brown reminded me of how I used to play. He talked about how we needed trust to play and trust to be creative. That makes sense. I usually only played with family. People how I trust. I played with people around my age. I think that was my trust to be creative, because people around my age would pretend with me. He mentioned exploration and building with your hands. As a child I loved to explore outside and would use my hands to make mud pies and so on. He also mentioned role play. I loved to role play, because I could do anything I wanted. As I grew up I realized it was a lot harder to be a whatever I wanted on the spur of the moment. One thing stuck though. That was my creativity.
However, despite the unquestionable link to a brighter future for the children who engage in it, less and less time is being allotted for play in the classrooms. As standards for what children are expected to know at younger and younger ages continues to rise along with the demand for standardized testing from the state, time for play is being sacrificed. Adults are choosing to get rid of time for unstructured play and recess to make time for this new testing interfering with the time allotted for children to learn independently through play. Cutting play and recess is a mistake, and here is why: “recess gives students time for social interactions: for students must be able to initiate, negotiate, cooperate, share, and build relationships with one another--skills that are highly valued in the adult world but that often are quite different from work or play under adult supervision and control” (Chang). Those skills learned through play, are often not the sole purpose of a classroom lesson and could potentially be the only place they learn those needed skills. Play is an affective measurement in the classroom as well as outside of the classroom and children can learn so much from it if only given the chance
While organized activities prevents significant self-growth, creative freedom allows the growth of children to be natural rather than forced and unrealistic. On the other hand, giving children more independence to express art, create crafts, and setting new rules allows for more effective development in "critical thinking and problem solving skills". It may also lead to better social skills when it comes to "creative group play" where children who pretend to be someone else can understand what it's like to naturally interact with other people and learn how to talk with others. Something that many teens and adults lack. This can also be applied to those participating in art projects and group activities as they learn to work together with efficiency as well as adapt to new obstacles by establishing new rules to different circumstances.