Play is an important feature of early learning because children learn through play, “play is the child’s work.” The child learns about the world, about animals, food, everything through where his mind may take him in play. To go along with play the teachers help to facilitate the children’s play and teach them what they are interested in. For example a child could be playing in the house center, and he is baking a cake for the baby’s birthday. The child could have just had a birthday where his parents made him a cake. He is learning so much by playing out that role that he saw. As he plays with the kitchen sets, he puts out plates and forks. He then sings the baby happy birthday. He is using all those fine motor skills he just used setting out all the forks and plates. He is learning about what happens on Birthdays and that you can celebrate only people’s birthdays to! Children learn better off real experiences, so it is hard to teach them about a snow flake is they have never seen one. Children need see, touch, feel, and smell things to learn about them. They need real experiences to put together later in life with the facts.
| What is “play”? Why is play an important feature of an early learning program? (You should include a discussion about the learning that takes place as children play with “objects” or as children play with “people”.)
Play, a thought to be simple thing that everyone has once done or still does. Play is very important in the development of children and how they learn. For most people they think that play is a very simple thing, but play is very complex. There are different types of play like:
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