8 Ways How Do Children Learn Through Play
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1) When he builds with blocks
2) When he paints a picture
3) When he plays in the doll-corner
4) When he makes a Hanuka gift out of paper and paste
5) When he climbs on the climbing ladders
6) Indoor Play
7) Outdoor Play
8) Language, Stories, Music
8 Ways How Do Children Learn Through Play
1) When he builds with blocks
He learns to use his imagination to create something from his own thinking.
He has the satisfaction of being able to make something.
He learns about sizes and shapes, weights and balances, height and depth, smoothness and roughness.
Heals exercising his body.
2) When he paints a picture
He learns about colors and how he can mix them and use them.
He learns to use his imagination and transfer his ideas to paper.
He gets emotional satisfaction from being able to express himself.
He learns how to use fine muscle coordination to handle a brush.
3) When he plays in the doll-corner
He learns what the roles of mothers and fathers and children are.
He understands what it feels like to play at being somebody other than himself.
He learns to use his imagination.
He learns to cooperate with other children.
4) When he makes a Hanuka gift out of paper and paste
He learns about doing things for others.
He learns the symbols of Hanukah.
He learns how to use materials like scissors and paste.
He learns how to use his imagination to make the kind of present he has in mind.
He learns about shapes, sizes, colors.
5) When he climbs on the climbing ladders
He learns how to use his body effectively.
He experiences joy in achieving a skill.
He has the fun and relaxation to be found in bodily movement.
He learns the limitations of his body.
He learns safety and caution.
He learns to take turns and to share a piece of equipment.
He learns how to use his imagination and find new ways of using the ladder.
These are some of the things children learn from play. They need good equipment and materials for play, and skilled teachers to guide them.
In order to give children the necessary wide variety of learning experiences, the daily schedule has to provide both indoor and outdoor play, with appropriate equipment for each.
6) Indoor Play
Here a child uses the creative art materials and the educational toys especially designed to promote certain aspects of his physical and mental development.
The arrangement of these toys, their accessibility to the children, and the space available for their use
has much to do with how the children use and benefit from them.
Within the classrooms one must find order but not regimentation, freedom but not license.
It is the skill of the teacher which provides this setting as well as the emotional climate of friendliness, guidance and interest necessary to promote the child’s learning opportunities.
8 Ways How Do Children Learn Through Play
7) Outdoor Play
All children must play freely outdoors for a part of each school day.
Children must have vigorous bodily activity to grow and develop properly. When children are confined for long periods of time they become either overly active and restless or passive and listless.
It is a law of nature that their bodies crave movement and change.
Outdoor play offers learning experiences to a young child as surely as do indoor activities, but children cannot be turned out onto an empty playground with the instruction to “go and play”.
When this happens they will be reduced to jostling with each other, aimlessly running around, or sitting about listlessly waiting to go back inside.
equipment designed to promote bodily exercise is needed for the playground. Here, as in the
classroom, the role of the teacher is of primary importance.
She has to know where to place the equipment, how to safeguard the children from accidents when using it, and how to help the children to make best use of it.
Many adults are fearful when they think of small children climbing up a ladder or using a swing.
But if the equipment is the right size for a child, if it is solidly and safely constructed, and if the teacher supervises the children while using it, there is no danger.
Children are more apt to get hurt when they are bored and restless and seek outlet for their natural energy by climbing up the drainpipe (which was not constructed for climbing) or throwing stones or hitting each other.
The right equipment prevents this. If, unfortunately, the playground does not have equipment, the teacher must lead the children in games and activities which will induce them to run and to move freely, and which will keep them interested.
8) Language, Stories, Music
In the day care center the children very easily develop their vocabulary through listening to stories, singing songs and talking with other children and the teacher.
Through these media they also acquire an ever-increasing knowledge about the world.
Article source : Preschool Blind Child by Billie Taylor , Colorado School for deaf and the blind
