Introduction: The LeapFrog Number Lovin’ Oven is a easy cooking toy, which design for the children around age 2-5. It is a simple cooking modeling oven that gives the children the experience of cooking with oven and prepare for a meal. The toy comes with a mini oven, frying pan, spatula, two plates and 16 fun ingredient, such as “pizza”, “bread”, “sunny side up egg” and some other “vegetable”. This toy owen have a weight of 3 lbs and the size of 5.3 x 14.9 x 9 inches. It is a modeling toy of the real oven that contains a timer and a thermoregulator on the top. The children can set up of different level of heat and the cooking time. It gives a real feeling to child about cooking food and prepare for the ingredient. The LeapFrog Number Lovin’ Oven is painted in blue color with a decoration cartoon purple eyes in the front. Also to bring some fun and enjoyable to the children while they are playing with the toy, the toy oven contain 30+ phrases and songs that children can listen to while they are playing with this toy (Amazon, n.d.). This toy is simple and fun to let the children play and learning at the same time. It provide a several way of learning, which help the child to growth and develop in many way. When children are making food with the toy, they need to cut up the ingredient, put the food into the plane and switch the temperature and set the timer. To play this toy contribute the children’s motor, perceptual, cognitive and language development. Motor
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
To start with, one of the reason why the microwave is the best invention is because, you can make really easy kid meals. Sometimes if you are a kid you want kiddy foods. For
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.
The “Toy Paper” is a research paper assignment for Child Development which we are to complete an in-depth analysis of the usefulness of a specific toy of our choice. The toy itself will be evaluated by three various stages in relation to cognitive, developmental, social and cultural perspective in addition to discussing topics which relate to the toy and its possible use by the child. The toy I have chosen for my topic to write about is the “Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Puppy” which is a toy designed by Fisher Price for children ranging in age 6 to 36 months it contains 50+ sing along songs, tunes and phrases. A testimonial by a parent stated, “the interactive components of the puppy are engaging, the songs are fun and the different levels allow
While some children were playing “house” others were taking part in constructive play. In this stage, toddlers have a deep understanding of what various objects can do and will now try to build things with the toys and everyday objects they find around them. One child had a box of blocks and was building a train track. Once he finished he assembled a line of trains to ride along the track he had just built. He repeatedly made noises that trains usually make such as “choo-choo.” Other children were interlocking Lego blocks and creating various structures while some were playing with play-dough and sculpting
Did you know that play expands a child’s learning and development? Once parents understand that play is crucial in their child’s life then they can begin to help their son or daughter be the best he or she can be. According to Lev Vygotsky “play shapes how children make sense of their worlds, how they learn thinking skills, and how they acquire language.” After spending time at the Bombeck Center I learned that children play in many diverse ways, thus learning numerous new things within each center in which they interact. Lev Vygotsky along with Jean Piaget researched the need for guided social interaction as well as the necessity for spontaneous, self-discovered learning. The Bombeck Center focuses on a play-based learning curriculum to ensure a child’s ability to access social interactions and self-discoveries at the tip of their fingers.
Friedrich Froebel had the idea that children learn best through play and by having real experiences and from these theories he was the founder of the first ever kindergarten in 1840 (Meggitt et al, 2011). Following the theory that children learn best through play, Frobel introduced toys that he called, ‘Froebel Gifts’ or ‘gaben’ which included balls, wooden blocks, rings, tiles and sticks which were all the key elements of Froebel’s kindergarten (Watson, 2002).
In this assignment I plan to explain how play helps to improve the development of children and young people. Play is extremely important for the development of children. It is important that from a young age children play with things like toys and even with other children. Between the ages of 0 – 3 is when children develop the most. Through play children can improve their fine and gross motor skills by using toys such as shape sorters and using musical tables which have buttons and things to turn. This helps to develop fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are developed through crawling and learning to walk. If children have toys that are spread out whilst
The terms “play”, “learn” and “teach” are commonly used in the early childhood sector. This essay attempts to define and interconnect these terms to produce a holistic understanding of how play can be used as a medium to help children learn.
The materials are age appropriate for the children who are 3-5 years old. The classroom has a variety of areas where the children can learn through play house, block, art, music, small toy, book, computer area. The classroom has a hatch computer where the children can learn through the computer software. High Scope is the integrated curriculum where the children learn through play. Children use the plan do review planning, worktime and recall. Where the children plan where they want to work they will carry out their plan during worktime and the children will recall what they did at worktime. Children will learn differently by doing and other children
WYP Ngo gathered building blocks in the community for the children. The purpose of the building blocks are to assist the children with developing their motor skills (gross motor skill and fine motor skill). The activity for today was to have the children work in pair to build a model with the building blocks. WYP Ngo worked with the youngest child, while the older children worked together. WYP Ngo used the building block models as a theme. The children learned about dinosaurs (T-Rex, Triceratops, and etc.). The purpose of this is to assist the children to develop their language skills. The children spent the entire session focusing on building the models. After the children were finished, they were allowed to play with their models. WYP Ngo
In the first stage of the experiment, children were brought to the experimental room by the controller and the model, who was in the hallway outside the room and was invited to come in and join in the game. The room was set up for playing and the activities were selected because they had high interest for nursery school children. One area was arranged was a child’s play area, where there was a table and chair, potato prints and stickers. After settling the child in its corner the adult model was brought to the other side of the room where there was a small table, chair, tinker-toy set, a mallet and a big inflatable Bobo doll. After the model was seated the experimenter left the experimental room (Diessner, 2008).
Through play our learning and development extends. We discover new ways to achieve a goal such as, fitting differently shaped cubes into their correct holes. By twisting and turning the cubes children begin to understand that the shapes correspond to the holes on the ball.
This observation took place September 26, 2014 at a daycare in Homestead. A friend of mine is a teacher at “My Little Angels” and while waiting for her, I sat down to watch some children playing. There were many kids to do the observation on, but a little girl playing kitchen set caught my eye. I started watching her from 2:00pm to 2:33pm. It is fascinating what kids do and what we can find out about their behavior by watching them for just thirty minutes.