Learning Through Play
Children Learn Through Play
Importance of Play
We provide interesting materials, equipment, and activities to promote exploration. It is this engagement with materials and interactions with others that stimulate your child's still developing brain. Play helps your child build close bonds with you and with others, learn social skills, develop physically, and practice thinking and language skills. In addition, math and science concepts are learned and associated skills are developed. As you can see, through play, children gain school readiness skills important for their future success in school and their lives.
More Benefits of Play
- Playing with table toys, drawing, and painting are but a few ways children are helped to develop their small motor skills that will aide them in developing their writing skills.
- Playing with table toys, games, music activities, and blocks provide opportunities to learn and use math skills.
- Hopping, jumping running, dancing, and other movement experiences assist with the development of children’s large muscle development skills.
- Playing in small groups is a wonderful way to develop language skills, learn how to work with others, learn how to express feelings appropriately, and problem solve.
- Pretending to read, write a story, make lists, and other related activities provides opportunities to develop literacy skills.
Play is Important
The National Association for the Education of Young Children, a professional advocacy agency for young children and those that teach young children, has research that supports using play as the foundation on which to best promote and support children's learning. You can be assured that your child's play is purposeful and well planned to help your child make continued progress in his/her growth and development.