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    The Importance of Play

    by Patricia M. Mikelson
    President, Highlights-Jigsaw

    Play is as vital as love,


    food, care and hope.

    Child development experts agree that play is imagination, and develops reading, thinking the foundation for learning including Dr. Edgar Klugman, Professor Emeritus at
    very important in the learning and emotional and problem solving skills as well as motor language, reading, thinking and Wheelock College, Boston, one of the
    development of all children. play is multi- skills. reasoning skills. In addition, parent-child foremost experts in play, identifies the
    faceted: · Through play, children process and play provides important opportunities different categories of play as follows:
    a.Play is how children experience fun and joy. manage emotions, and understand and for parent-child bonding. Functional Play: The child enjoys repetitive
    ·Through play children develop their interpret the world around them. play with objects and gains motor and
    personalities and a positive sense of self, · Play helps children learn relationship and The most authentic play experiences are practice skills. Good examples are dumping,
    realize their potential and experience social skills, and develop values and ethics. child-initiated, freely chosen, and child filling, stacking, water play, and outdoors
    success. Play is a "brain food" to help brains develop in powered. Such play is pleasurable and play. Functional play characterizes infants
    · Play unlocks children's creativity and, ways critical to school success. It provides fun, active and mind absorbing. and toddlers and at age 3 constitutes 50%

    Seeds of Knowledge, Old Fashioned Living©-Evaeducation.info


    of a child's play. Although functional play Pretend Play:
    decreases as a child grows older, it remains Through pretend play, children transform
    important. Functional play can be either themselves, others, and objects from real
    solitary or parallel (another child is involved into make-believe. Pretend play can be
    in a similar activity at the same time.) both a solitary and a group activity. It
    Children experience enjoyment, develop reaches its highest level at pre-school and
    motor skills, and achieve mastery through kindergarten age and becomes less
    functional play. important as a child grows older. Pretend
    play helps children process emotions and
    events in their lives, practice social skills,
    learn values, develop language skills, and
    create a rich imagination.

    Games with Rules Play:


    This play involves pre-set rules such as
    board games, ball games, chanting, and
    skipping games. This type of play
    becomes dominant as children reach
    school age. Through this type of play
    children learn and practice cooperation,
    mutual understanding, and logical
    Constructive Play: thinking.
    The child creates or makes something and
    solves problems. Examples are building with
    blocks, playing with arts, crafts and puppets
    and doing puzzles. Approximately 50% of all
    activity for 4, 5 and 6 year olds is
    constructive play, and this type of play
    continues to be important through the
    primary grades. Children can play
    constructively alone as well as with others.
    This type of play develops thinking and
    reasoning skills, problem solving, and
    creativity.

    Seeds of Knowledge, Old Fashioned Living©-Evaeducation.info

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