ShareHOW DOES PLAY SUPPORT YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING?
1. Physical development
Active play using large and small muscles such as climbing, running, ball games, digging, jumping, and dancing. This supports children’s overall health and sense of wellbeing, physical growth, appreciation for the benefits of active lifestyles, and skills for independence in self-help such as dressing or feeding.
2. Social and emotional development
Dramatic and imaginative play, including dressing up and role play, can develop positive social and emotional skills and values. This provides opportunities for children to:
- practice how to work with other children, negotiate ideas, and make choices and decisions
- develop self-confidence by experiencing success and challenges
- learn to control their emotions, reduce impulsive behavior, or reduce stress as they act out feelings and events that might be worrying them
- develop empathy and fairness as they learn to play alongside and with other children.
3. Cognitive development
When your child plays individually and with others, their cognitive skills, such as thinking, remembering, learning, and paying attention, are all being developed. Children develop the following cognitive skills through play:
- problem-solving
- the power of imagination and creativity
- concepts such as shapes, colors, measurement, counting, and letter recognition
- strengths, such as concentration, persistence, and resilience.
4. Literacy and numeracy development
Play requires thinking, language, interactions, curiosity, and exploration. Through play, children develop skills and understandings, including:
- an increased understanding of words and their use
- listening and speaking skills
- writing skills through scribbling, painting, and drawing
- learning how stories work (plot, characters, structure, purpose, and format of words on a page)
- learning that objects can stand for something else (a block can be a symbol for a telephone) which is foundation learning for formal reading, spelling, and numeracy because letters, words, or numerals are part of symbol systems
- learning that letters, words, symbols, numerals, and signs have a purpose and are meaningful to others.
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