Play

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Many times when students go home and parents ask ‘what did you do at school today?’ and their child replies ‘I played’ parents wonder what it is that we did all day.

Play is a very important part of a child’s day because that is the way they learn. When we participate in activities and your child considers it ‘play’ they don’t realize that learning is taking place.

Please take a few minutes and read the following list to see all of the different skills worked on in each area.

PUZZLES

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Fine Motor Skills
Sequencing
Cooperative Play
Decision Making
Discovery
Independent Skills
Problem Solving
Sorting
Turn Taking
Sharing
Thinking Skills
Eye Hand Coordination

BLOCK AREA

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Cooperative Play
Creative Thinking
Decision Making
Discovery
Language
Problem Solving
Sharing
Sorting
Shape Identification
Spatial Relations
Balance
Organization
Cause and Effect
Classification

GROUP AREA/BOOKS

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Early Reading
Language
Thinking Skills
Enjoyment of Literature
Expand our Knowledge Base
Expand our Attention Span
Turn Taking
Listening
Following Directions
Adding and Subtracting
Counting
Left to Right Orientation
Number Concepts
Number Recognition
Patterning
Sequencing
Career Awareness

HOUSE AREA

We use the following skills in this area as we play:
Career Awareness
Citizenship
Cooperative Play
Decision Making
Language
Role Playing
Sharing
Thinking Skills
Turn Taking
Social Skills
Life Skills
Increase our Self Esteem

TABLE TOYS

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Thinking Skills
Problem Solving
Fine Motor
Sharing
Classifying
Patterning
Number Concepts
Making Sets
Cooperative Play
Counting
Color/Shape/Size Identification
Thinking Skills

LISTENING CENTER

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Early Reading
Listening
Expanding our Attention Span
Fine Motor
Left to Right Orientation
Self Help
Sharing
Thinking Skills
Following Directions

WRITING CENTER

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Cooperative Play
Creative Thinking
Discovery
Experiment with Art Materials
Fine Motor
Independent Skills
Integrating the Senses
Self Help
Sharing
Left to Right Orientation
Eye Hand Coordination
Self Expression
Language
Color/Shape/Size Recognition

SENSORY TABLE

We use the following skills as we play in this area:
Integrating the Senses
Cooperative Play
Creative Thinking
Decision Making
Discovery Language
Problem Solving
Sharing
Sorting
Spatial Relations
Balance
Cause and Effect
Classification
Eye Hand Coordination
Thinking Skills