SueFinanceManager Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 Fun, letting my imagination run wild, letting my curiosity do it's thing and see where it takes me, messy, mucky, fiddly, precise, ordered, muddled oh and more fun
Guest LornaW Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 Play is essential and important and here are Some of my favourite definitions... The work of children consisting of those activities performed for self-amusement that have behavioural, social, and psychomotor rewards. It is child-directed, and the rewards come from within the individual child; it is enjoyable and spontaneous. Play is the most important thing a child can do to expand her mind, body, and sense of self because play gets the body up and moving and the imagination out and exploring. When a child enters into a deep state of play, she's in charge of what's real and what's important. Time stands still as she makes her own discoveries and draws her own conclusions about things. And in those powerful moments of creation and decision-making she is laying down the foundations for all future learning by figuring out for herself how she learns best. Lorna
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