What activities are developmentally appropriate for young children.

4-6 Fully developed sentences for each

1.
What materials and activities should be provided?
What makes activities educationally worthwhile?
What activities are developmentally appropriate for young children
2.
Your definition of the word play.
Why is play important for young children?

3.
What can children learn as they play?
Share an example.
4.
Was play a significant part of your early learning experiences both in school and at home?
Was play valued at home and in your early schooling?
5.
Please reflect on your childhood and share how play shaped your early experiences and development then share how your experiences have impacted your views on play.

6.
Please share a summary of one of the cognitive theories of play.

7.
The history of play is complicated. Many of the historical sources differ in information and interpretations provided. Different perspectives on both descriptions of childhood and perceptions about children’s play are presented.
Please describe a summary of the history of play as described in our readings.
8.
How does an environment provide children with easy access to models and materials to engage in creative and constructive play?
9. What are some activities that you have either experienced or would like to try that would integrate history, geography, political socialization, or economics into the daily routine of the classroom?

10. What is one, whole or small group project-based activity that you feel would be appropriate for any one of these four social studies concepts?
Teaching History
Teaching Geography
Political Socialization
Economics

11. When it comes to early literacy, too often, parents are overly concerned with how quickly their young child will learn to read, which often results in unnecessary pressures on the early childhood teacher. Often parents feel as though teaching their child to read should take precedence over play-based learning in the classroom.
Discuss some of the ideas that you have observed, would like to try, or simply wonder about, that might help parents of young children better understand the developmental nature of learning to read and the role-play-based learning has as an early literacy developmental tool.

12. what can we learn about a child as we observe their play?

13.
If you were asked to describe an integrated curriculum, what would you say?
Share an example of what this might look.
14. Of the theorist that you have read about thus far, which views do you relate most with and why you relate more to this person’s ideas.

15. When you hear the words “educational play,” what do you envision? Share an example.

16.An example of a dramatic play center and describe what items would we see as props in this learning center?
USE A HOUSEKEEPING AREA

17. Our textbook mentions many learning centers. Please identify one that is not listed and share what you would see in this center. (Do not pick the same one that you wrote about for discussion 18).
USE A SCIENCE CENTER

18.Science and Mathematics are often very naturally integrated side-by-side into the early childhood curriculum, meaning that many activities have children engaged in both content areas at the same time. As an example, the Cooking Center is a very useful area of the early childhood classroom where science and math are naturally integrated. Science and Math are a natural part of our world and can be observed in many places outside the classroom as well.
Discuss possible locations outside the early childhood classroom where young children can be exposed to opportunities to develop science and math skills together.

19. The ideal Block Center in an early childhood setting involves careful reflection, planning, and supervision, and is so much more than the placing of blocks in the Center and allowing children to play with them.
Imagine that you are a new teacher to a classroom of young children and you have been told that any materials you need for your Block Center can easily be purchased for you. Now, answer the following questions as part of your discussion:
What will the physical environment look like?
Where in the classroom will the Block Center be located?
How large will the space will it be?
What materials will the Block Center include (money is no issue!)
What rules will you propose to the children for the Block Area?

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