PHOTO: https://flic.kr/p/26djwS (Flickr) Photo by: tanakawho There’s no other feeling in the world quite like swinging. From the moment we sit down on the swing until we feel ourselves flying through the air as we cling with all our might to the swing’s chain, the experience is invigorating and exhilarating. While I loved the swings as a kid, I also love swinging now and encourage my girls to engage in this activity as often as possible because I know kids gain nine important benefits when they swing. 1. Swinging Prompts Sensory Integration The acts of balancing on the seat, pumping their legs, and holding onto the chain as they swing prompts sensory integration development. With sensory integration, our kids’ brains organize and interpret …show more content…
These interconnected brain pathways then assist our kids with rhythm, muscle control, and focus. 3. Swinging Builds Spatial Awareness As kids decide where to sit on the swing so they don’t fall off and balance their bodies as they swing, they build spatial awareness skills. These skills equip our kids to navigate their environment successfully as they differentiate right, left, up, and down, avoid obstacles as they walk, and understand math, science, and other concepts. 4. Swinging Improves Gross Motor Skills Our kids walk, run, and jump thanks to their gross motor skills. Swinging can boost your child’s gross motor skills as they pump their legs and strengthen their bodies. 5. Swinging Develops Fine Motor Skills Fine motor skills enable our kids to secure buttons, hold a pencil, and cut with scissors. Gripping and holding onto the swing chain develop the hand, finger, and arm coordination that’s essential for our kids’ fine motor skills development. 6. Swinging Strengthens the Core I want my girls to have a strong body core, the muscles around their trunk and pelvis, because these muscles are responsible for stability and balance. Plus, a strong core reduces injuries. The repetitive motions of swinging strengthen our kids’ core and give them strong
Gross motor skills are another important part of early childhood development. This is the use of the bigger muscles all throughout the body. Toddler Developmental Milestones (2011) has noted these skills as being a part of the developmental process for typical one-year-old children:
Preoperational stage (ages 2-7) – Concrete physical stimuli are needed in order for a child to develop new concepts.
Don’t use baby swing that it is not suitable for the age and weight of your baby. Once your baby has grown out of the age and weight range of the swing model you are using, stop using it.
Gross motor is crucial to a child’s development in and out of the classroom. My goal is to add fun exciting movement activities for example,
The Sensorimotor stage from birth to two years sees children form their knowledge of the world through physical interactions with their environment (Hoffnung et al. 2016, p. 48). During this stage children lack object permanence, which is the understanding that even when out of view
Proprioception is the child’s ability to receive information from their muscles, tendons, and body parts. The most common body parts that children will receive information from are their limbs and trunk. This toy facilitates a great deal of proprioceptive input while the child plays with the keys on the front of the car, gets on and off the car, moving the car while on and off it, and opening and closing the storage compartment. When the child is playing with the keys on the front of the car they will either be sitting on the ground, standing, or reaching over the handlebars while sitting on the car. While sitting on the ground the child has to know where their body is in space to maintain sitting. To play with the key on the front of the car
Play supports children’s physical development as when they are playing they are being active and exercising their body. It is important that children develop strength and stamina from a young age and through
Kids love to play outside with their outdoor toys, because that is their job. The job of the parents is to ensure that diligent attention is paid to the children at play. The National Program for Playground Safety has reported that inadequate supervision contributed to about 40 percent of all playground injuries. Swing set safety guidelines have been developed to guide parents, childcare providers and school officials to the best measures to prevent accidents on playground equipment. In addition to supervision, the child should be instructed on how to play safely, and the caregiver should ensure that the child is wearing appropriate play clothes and sturdy shoes.
Educators need to understand the importance of fundamental concepts like permanence of objects. Educators are therefore able to respond by planning activities that are suitable for each child going through each developmental stage. Knowing what experiences are best for each developmental stage will help children get the best out of life. Educators need to provide not just one but a whole range experiences if they want to build a secure foundation for future learning. By giving children fun, hands on experiences they learn and practise new skills that they can they develop and become more complex over time. An example of this is by giving a young child building blocks, not only will he be having fun while creating his own structures but he will also learn problem solving skills, increase his imagination, measuring skills, developing solutions and reasoning skills, balance and spatial body awareness just to name a few.
During the birth to two years stage children are learning about the world through their sensations and through their movements. One of the most influential theorist’s Jean Piaget developed four important stages of cognitive development. In the first stage, known as the sensorimotor stage, direct sensory experiences are occurring. Motor actions are occurring as well, which are important for the learning of children as they get older. Since infants at this age are learning through their movements they are using basic actions such as grasping onto objects with their hands, sucking, listening and observing the world around them. With these movements, they are beginning to understand that their actions cause things to happen around them. When this
Mastering fine motor skills is a very important process needed for physical and cognitive development. It is during early childhood that most children develop these skills, however there are many children that do not. A young child’s fine motor skills are developed through a vast array of activities that aide the child in doing little things such as grasping a toy as an infant, and buttoning buttons as a toddler or tying shoes when they are a preschooler. Fine motor development is the development of the small muscles in the hands and fingers. Many crucial daily activities depend on strong motor skills, such as writing, using eating utensils and getting dressed, among other things. Without fine motor skills a child will have difficulties preforming
They also enhance fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, constructive play, creativity and cognitive development (Landscape Structures, 2016). Children are encouraged to grasp objects and stack them in a specific manner to ensure that they stay balanced and don’t fall after being stacked (Bredin, 2016). This also requires problem solving and strategic thinking (Landscape Structures, 2016). By grasping and feeling the texture of the blocks, children develop their sense of touch (Bredin, 2016). There are several activities that can be performed with blocks, for example, creating different structures by stacking the blocks. Also, these colorful blocks can be used for literacy purposes, because children can learn their colors, as well as how to
...e cues to the learner. The most critical element of this whole learning experience comes down to practice. If I set up an environment that encourages mental and physical repetition the building blocks for practice have been set. To finsh this metaphorical house I will give the students cues that will help them develop their swing. As the students are practicing I must provide feedback that is helpful to them to help them become the best batter they can be. With the right coach and baseball player can succeed and I think Crash Davis from Bull Durham said it best “This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains”.
I have grown up living in the same house my whole life, and that swing has been there for as long as I can remember. I have so many memories of that place. Some of my best memories have been very recent. Before we were dating, my girlfriend and I would sit out there for long periods of time just talking. Now that place is full of memories of Karen. Even now it is comforting to sit there because it reminds me of those times. However, memories of my girlfriend are not the only memories that place holds. Growing up, I have spent time there with both friends and family. I even have memories of sitting there alone, contemplating my life's events.
For ex: The Red Rods which are very similar to the Number Rods, prepare the child indirectly for counting. The child unconsciously counts ten red rods while building the stair on the work rug. Children are introduced to many new words like rough, smooth, thick, thin, circle, sphere etc. through sensorial presentations, thereby enhancing their vocabulary. Exercises like the Knobbed cylinders require the child to use the pincer grasp to pick up the cylinders, which in-turn would indirectly prepare him for