Explain How Preschool Children Engage In Cooperative Play

This school is a licensed childcare program and NAEYC accelerated. The center is providing child care program for children age from 2.9 to 5 years old. There is 2 preschool classroom, I did my observation in preschool classroom room no: 1 on 10/2/2017 time from 9am to 10am. There are around 13 children in the classroom. All the children’s engaged several activities like

Social skills - By playing independently of adults, children have the chance to practise their social skills. They might squabble or raise their voices at times, but most children from 3 years or so are able to work things out themselves. Learning to take turns and cooperate helps children’s social skills.

7-14 years --- By this stage, children have stable friendships, enthusiasm when given areas of responsibility and clear different activities between boys and girls.

By age 2-3 years children enjoy playing with older people who provide them with attention and begin to enjoy time with children their own age. Over the next few years the child becomes more independent and coopertative and likes to help. They develop social skills and play with others is more comfortable as they begin to consider the feelings of others and make friends, although resolving disputes can still be an issue. Rules and routine are required to help the child feel secure and safe.

As an early years practitioner you will recognise that children’s play is closely linked to their learning and development. Children learn in so many different ways but you will notice that they learn mainly through play. When children are able to do many different activity’s that allows them to lean but have fun at the same time thy will find what they are doing fun and will engage the children. It is important that when in you your setting you set up a variety of educational activity’s this way the children will be able to choose freely what they want to do.

In the toddler classroom, the children interacted with each other, however many of them were more interested in playing and exploring on their own. The children enjoyed free play at learning centers, story time, and outside play during my observation. The toddlers preferred parallel play in which the children used similar toys in similar ways, but did not interact with each other. For example, when one child began playing with the kitchen toys in the dramatic play center, soon all of the children began playing with the available plastic food items. However, the children were more interested in showing the teachers what they were doing and

8. Evaluate different approaches to managing risk during children and young peoples play. An approach to managing risk could be to talk to those children involved with e.g. play fighting and if they got too carried away I would stop them from playing together. Another approach would be to provide crash mats if children are playing on an indoor climbing frame, I would place them underneath to steady their fall so they don’t injure themselves too badly.

Making relationships: children play co-operatively, taking turns with others. They take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity. They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.”

| By this age the child likes to begin to explore and they are able to respond to the simple directions that they are given, can group objects by category, are able to stack rings on pegs in the order of the size (big to small), able to recognize themselves when looking in the mirror and finally they still like imitating more complex adult actions for example housekeeping play.

| Further development of identity.Imaginative play with peers.Developing friendships themselves and preference of friends.Understanding of boundaries and why they are necessary.Responding to responsibility of tasks.

In this stage a child will begin to interact with others. It begins around the age of three to five. Being around other children will lead them to asking numerous amount of questions. If initiative is reinforced, a child will become more confident in their ability to lead others and enhance their creativity.

While the first word that comes to one’s mind when he thinks of a child might not be fearless, anyone who has spent considerable time with children definitely knows

In my opinion, I think that children need both orgnaized activity and creative play time. Organized activities teach the children responsiblity, while creative play teaches them that its okay to be theirselves and hvae fun.

In today’s world, possessing strong social skills is an absolute essential. And if you’re looking to gear your child up to feel free and empowered in social situations, FasTracKids is ready to help. This learning center offers a number of enrichment programs and preschool activities to help young children develop the confidence they need to blossom in social settings.

Through collective games children not only learn to interact and relate socially: they share toys, interact and react according to what others are doing, they take turns, they learn to cooperate and share work; but also provides the opportunity for using the language in a natural and spontaneous way.