Children Learn Through Play

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

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Creative Appreciation

• Music Appreciation/Creative Movement
• The children learn the differences between fast
  and slow, loud and soft all at the same time.

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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.

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Outdoor Play

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

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Cooking

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

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Snack Time

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

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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.

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Manipulative Toys

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

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Puzzles

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

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Library

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