Children Learn Through Play Present By Ellouise M. Smart-Nugent Persuasive Paper For English 312 Dr. Allan Cook Marygrove College 12/5/2006.

Children Learn Through Play

Children Learn Through Play

Present By Ellouise M. Smart-NugentPersuasive Paper For English 312

Dr. Allan CookMarygrove College

12/5/2006

Circle Time How to organize their

thoughts as they talk about their experiences - they learn how to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end.

Creative Appreciation

Music Appreciation/Creative Movement

The children learn the differences between fast and slow, loud and soft all at the same time.

Art Projects Teachers must

creative when creating art projects for children. For example, children can use dry crumpled for a collage that teaches the students about life cycles in nature.

Outdoor Play

This activity helps to refine a child’s gross-motor (large muscles) skills. It also is crucial to a child’s later success in reading and writing (right arm/left leg and visa versa).

Cooking

Cooking helps to foster math skills- count and measure also estimate.

Snack Time Snack time offers an

opportunity for children and teacher to share and communicate. Snack unlike lunch is usually a light meal.

Dramatic Play Playing make-believe

helps a child to see a grown-up world through their eyes. In dramatic play children see pots, pans, stuffed animals, toy phones, hats and purses help children to dress up and see their parents. Older sibling and even teachers in a different light.

Manipulative Toys

Manipulative toys help to develop fine motor skill, which sets the stage for pre-writing.

Puzzles Puzzles help to

develop abstract thinking. This helps the child to see a space and envision what goes in there.

Library

Children develop literacy and Language skills from books either by looking at them or having them read to the children.