Preschool Role Play

If they continue play with this toy they can make their own story. Hand puppets help children to improve communication and social skills. Hand puppets are an ideal springboard for developing speaking and listening skills. Children often communicate more easily with puppets, giving them confidence to express their ideas and feelings. They can sing about the animals and they can make the sound of the animals.

When I participated in some events, I had chances to work with adolescents. It was so much fun, and totally different from the environment that works with children. However, I realized that I prefer to work with young children because working with children need more parenting and teaching than working with adolescents. I can see how young children interact with their friends in new environments through such parenting and teaching. In addition, young children show us various characteristics depending on situation or peers.

Daycares are efficient, friendly and allow the child to learn many things that they would not otherwise, most child care facilities have specific regulations so the children receive the best attention and support they need from the staff. Daycares are a perfect way to help parents with their busy schedules and let kids have fun as well. The child will also create great friendships and learn how to communicate with children their age. This will be their foundation and preparation for their school years. All in all, taking your child to daycare will help the child academically and socially.

Piaget’s theory is based on assisting others until they can help themselves. Piaget goal is to help children learn so that they can become successful as they reach adulthood. Children learn as they experience different things in their environment. This includes playing with toys and using objects that helps them physically. For example, a child who enjoys drawing could

enjoyment. Play can also be considered a rehearsal for acting-out real life events – such can be seen when children play house or school (Parsons, 2011). Also, play is so important and essential that it is included in the United Nation Convention of the Rights of the Child as stated in Article 31 (Leisure, Play and Culture): Children have the right to relax and play and to join in a wide range of cultural, artistic and other recreational activities (www.unicef.org).

When playing with others, children learn appropriate social behaviors, such as sharing, cooperating, and respecting the property of others. In addition, while interacting with their peers, children learn three domain of learning without recognizing it: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor. As children 's grows older, their competent in social interaction changes by whom he/she encountered. They gain a lot of social skill that boosts their self esteem to interact with others (stance.org).

Development is a gradual and continuous process. The development of children is greatly influenced through interactions with the family, friends and culture. Children learn from seeing how they are treated, overhearing the interactions of the people around them and observing the things we do all throughout the day. Fully understanding how children grown and change over the course of childhood requires us to look into various child development theories such as psychosocial, cognitive, behaviourist and ecological theories, to name a few.

We learn socially acceptable or desirable behavior through being rewarded and getting punished for bad behavior (Grieve, et al. 2005). Another way that social learning occurs is through observation, which is, imitating or watching the behaviors of other and observing the consequences of it. There are four components of observational learning which are attention, retention or memory, initiation or reproduction and motivation (Grieve, et al.

This is an organized and peaceful environment specially catered to the needs of the children who, as independent learners, have the freedom to pick from and participate in the many different activities available which interest them and work at their individual’s pace. (www.montessorisos.com/montessori-philosophy#Prepared-Environment) As the children are able to explore only things which intrigue them, at their own pace, they would naturally develop a love for learning.

(2011) breakdown and examine individual elements of pretend play in different views- such as emotion regulation and social skill. They argued that while social competence is associated with ToM ability, however, Stagnitti and Unsworth (2000) has claimed that children in solitary play also have the same social competence. They can pretend and solve problems as children in the pretend play, thus improving their social skills. Many researchers agree that pretend play is crucial in emotional competence, however, the inconsistency in correlational studies suggested that there might be another factor that mediates the relationship (Bergen, 2002; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2009). From the studies, it is clear that the linkage between pretend play and socio-emotional development is not very firm anymore thus more research is needed to prove the

Let the children have fun exploring what costume they would like to wear & play time to explore the differences, colours, jewels etc on each costume. Have them sit down & discuss the differences by writing a few things down about the costume, which culture it came from, are they colourful or do they have special jewels, head pieces etc. I think this is an exciting group activity to explore differences & educate the children at the same time! *Perhaps if their appears to be issues between children having a group discussion about differences can help alleviate the issues & help the children understand these differences.

It is also suggested that children with the syndrome are given an advocate to help communication between child, family, school, and others (Liles & Packman, 2009). Since Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is “not only the primary cause of mental retardation in the United States, but also the most readily preventable,” then it is obvious that children with this syndrome are at risk (Liles & Packman, 2009). They would benefit from the help of social workers throughout their lives. Most of the interventions in place have focused on the prevention of FAS through awareness.

T2: Children and Young People 's Play and Learning Play is when a child or anyone for that matter can be inventive, creative and be free to do what they want during play. They can do what they think when playing, getting across the way they feel. Play is possibly the one main process which can let your imagination roam freely and forgetting about reality. I will also be discussing theorists and their theories associated with play, evaluating and assessing it 's effect on practice. Children are greatly affected by their play, as it can increase their holistic development and general everyday skills.

In the essay “Even Nine-Month-Olds Choose Gender-Specific Toys,” Jennifer Goodwin acknowledges the possibility of gender being innate, as a research showed that “even 1-day-old boys spent longer looking at moving, mechanical options than 1-day-girls, who spent more time looking at faces” (89). However, she claims that even actions this early in life may already be influenced by the parents’ different treatments, which start almost instantly after their child is born. Goodwin states that, even when their children are still infants, parents tend to show more affection towards girl than boys, who are dealt with in a more active and playful manner, which could explain the findings of the research mentioned. This difference in treatments is later

The movie October Sky does an outstanding job of conveying what life was like in the year 1957 and in doing this the audience gets a fairly clear insight into the ins and outs of the society back in that time period. The movie begins in October of 1957 just shortly after Soviet satellite, Sputnik I, was put into orbit. Seeing Sputnik zip across the sky of his home town Coalwood, main character Homer Hickam is inspired to build a model rocket. Homer brings together a group of friends, both old and new who join him on his quest to build a successful model rocket. Throughout the movie a multitude of societal standards are displayed, things such as the roles of males and females, social hierarchy as well as hiding poor conditions are all well displayed