Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Importance of Free Play
Check out this article about free play. It really emphasizes our need, as parents and caregivers, to back-off (way more than we do!) and let children learn through play, as is meant to be. The learning about real-life, solving problems and adapting to unexpected situations/circumstances are all things that happen during play. These things NEED to happen in order for children to be able to move into a play of learning later on.
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Monday, 2 May 2016
'Play Challenge'
Lisa tasked us with the following challenge: to start a 'PLAY' binder- a place to collect research, quotes and articles that support the value of play in learning.
Her explanation for this challenge was simple. Unless we get better at naming why we build programs around this philosophy of play, we will have difficulty gaining support for them. Lisa doesn't believe we do a good job at endorsing play-based developmentally appropriate programs because we remain at the 'cute' stage. She says we need to get past the cute activities we find and get better at stating why we do what we do for and with children.
Her explanation for this challenge was simple. Unless we get better at naming why we build programs around this philosophy of play, we will have difficulty gaining support for them. Lisa doesn't believe we do a good job at endorsing play-based developmentally appropriate programs because we remain at the 'cute' stage. She says we need to get past the cute activities we find and get better at stating why we do what we do for and with children.
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