Worksheets v. Play in the Classroom
Jayla Reid
English 4 Honors
Mr. Wilson
Period 6
February 27, 2017
Worksheets in the preschool and kindergarten classroom are not developmentally appropriate practices and should be replaced quite often with play. Play is also considered as “hands-on-activities.” In order for a practice to be considered developmentally appropriate, it must be up to par in three categories. These categories are: age, culture, and individual appropriateness. Worksheets are not developmentally appropriate in any category nor age group. Specifically preschool and kindergarten. They are instruments used to pass time and serve as busy work. They do not promote nor maximize learning in any fashion. Worksheets are
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Some decided to branch off, while others directly followed her trail. While some worked after her, there was a theorist who worked closely with her while she was alive. Jean Piaget and Sara Smilansky together developed what they felt were the three categories of play. They were as listed: Sensorimotor play in which the children uses their sensorimotor skills to explore their surroundings, symbolic play in which the children use symbols to represent another object or thing, and games with rules in which children play and are able to follow as well as comprehend rules, understanding that there are certain rules for how certain things are played. From these categories, sociodramatic play is where Smilansky took her research to another level, developing the previous listed components of her theory. Beginning with functional play, this is important to have a setting dedicated to this form of play. According to researchers, Smilansky stated that functional play is using repetition in physical actions, language, and manipulation of objects, based on the need for physical activity. Functional play develops motor responses as well as both gross and fine motor skills. In the areas of learning through the manipulation of play, there should be “games” such as beanbag toss. In this the child can manipulate the beanbag, using their gross motor skills in which improving them. Stacking blocks is another way to achieve the outcome of
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.
Whilst playing the children will begin to learn skills such as balance and coordination, throwing, catching, running skipping and jumping however none of these skills can be learnt if the child does not learn the movement skills. They need to learn hand-eye coordination this is when the brain will learn to make the hands and eyes work together resulting in the children being able to play catch, foot-eye coordination this starts when babies begin to learn to walk up the stairs but can then be extended when the child learns to kick a ball, balance this is learnt over time depending on the age of the child, when the child begins to learn these skills through physical activity their central nervous system will also begin to develop which will in turn help their muscles, glands and organs. This is applied into my practice by taking the children in to thee garden. When in the garden I make obstacle courses for the children with crates that range it heights and sizes, tyres and the slide. It can very day to day to teach the children different things. But by using the different height crates it allows the children to learn to balance by themselves, the slide allows the children to climb. We also have balls that the children play with but depending on the age of the child would depend on how it is used. If the child is 18 months or younger then I would
5.1: Explain the importance of play to children’s learning and development and the need for an inclusive approach.
When learning becomes fun the teachers find it less challenging for trying to keep the child engaged in the activity at hand. The job of the educator working with a play-based curriculum is to facilitate play, to draw out and extend what children learn through play (Play Based Programmes, 2015). Children have a variety of play spaces available that mimic their regular world around them, each space can be intertwined with another centre such as combining the truck centre with the block centre, or adding in some zoo animals to the area. The play based approach can be used by children of all abilities, it allows children to play independently or as a small group, and allows the children the opportunity to bring their home life into their play.
Play is the way children learn and is a word that is used to describe the different activities behaviours that children participate in, this would concur with “Vygotsky’s (1978) social constructivist theory that suggests that play promotes both mental and social development for children” (cited in Goulding, 2016, p16). Early childhood educators such as Froebel and Vygotsky have always promoted the importance of the outdoor learning environment. According to Vygotsky (1978), children learn through interacting with the environment and through social interaction with others. Social constructivist theory, believes play is important for the growth of a child’s cognitive emotional and social development and
There are numerous theories of play and countless theorists, from Freud and Spencer to Piaget and Vygotsky, who have studied play in relation to what it is and what it does for the child. This essay will outline the definition and value of play and the importance of how it can foster the child’s learning in regards to these theorists who studied the effects in great detail. It will discuss the how the environments constructed by educators can impact play and the theories of learning relating to the quote “play and learning are inextricably woven together ...” Ebbeck and Waniganayake, 2010, p. 5).
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