Provide Experiences to Support Children's Play and Learning

This article discusses the importance of supporting children's play and learning through activities and environments. It provides examples of activities such as sand and water play, and outlines the planning of two play environments: outdoor and indoor. The benefits of outdoor play and the importance of creating an effective indoor play environment are also discussed.

Provide Experiences to
Support Children's Play
and Learning

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2.1 Provide Experiences to Support Children's Play and Learning.............................................3
Planning of two play environments-............................................................................................3
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2.1 Provide Experiences to Support Children's Play and Learning
It is very important to involve and support the playing while making the thing learn to the
children's as this helps them in improving the cognitive, physical, emotional as well as the social
well being of the children's. Through playing, children's enables to learn about the things around
the world as well as the overall environment. It helps them in developing the skills such as the
confidence, self-esteem, resilience, interaction and many more. Playing is considered as the
enjoyable as well as the natural way for the development and keeping the children's active while
learning the new things. Having the good physical as well as the mental health it is very
important for the children's to learn the skills of the life.
There are many activities practised in the classroom which helps in learning through
supporting the play. These activities are such as the-
Sand: This play helps as well as provides the opportunity to the children's for the scientific
learning and development of the self confidence. This enables the children's to learn the how
things work by scooping, pouring ans many more.
Water Play: This is also similar to the sand play which helps the children's by doing the practical
experiments in the safe environment by understanding the basic terms and the concepts such as
the volume.
Such activities when involved helps the children's to learn the things in the better way as well as
provides them the environmental knowledge.
Planning of two play environments-
Outdoor Play environment:
This is the environment which involves open-air space where the activities occurs and it is the
play space in which the children's will help them in learning the things while playing.
When the children's are exposed to the environment, this helps them in learning the
things more better which ultimately develops them. This enables them to respond for their
individual as well as the personal needs. The children's at early age likes to see the practical
things as by this learn the things very quickly as well as it enhances the physical environment.
The children's at this age are much curious to learn the new things and so when the playing is
involved in the classroom this helps them in learning the new things. There are number of the
benefits to the children's of playing outside as this helps them in staying healthy as well as active.

In addition with this, they will be able to explore the animals as well as the plants in the
ecosystem.
When the playing will be supported, this will help the children's to maintain their
physical health, opportunities to develop the motor skills, developing the social and verbal skills
and many more. The wide variety of the activities will be performed when there will be enough
outdoor spaces. The outdoor activities such as the playing with the sand, riding the scooter or the
tricycle, plating the seeds, playing catch-catch as well as playing with the toys outside. These
activities will be much helpful for making the things learn to the children's as this will enhance
the skills of the children. Setting the proper schedule and timing that is at least one Hour will be
given daily for the activities to learn the things and for supporting the play environment.
The outdoor space will be continuously ensured so that the safe environment will be their
for the children's to play outdoor. All the things such as the missing parts, protrusion of the bolts
and the nuts, rusting of paints, visible cracks and many more things will be considered. This will
help in providing the better outdoor space to the children's. Inspection of the outdoor space will
enable to know whether the place is free from the cigarette, litter, building supplies, holes,
exposed power lines and many more. The place having this will not be safe and environment
friendly for making the things learn while playing.
Indoor Play Environment:
This is the play environment in which the learning activities are performed inside. This place is
secure and attractive which helps the children's to be happy and learn things confidently.
It is very true that the young children's learn much through the play so it is very necessary
to plan the things which will help in learning the things effectively. The group meetings by
taking all the children's will help in building the literacy skills. The children's are very keen to
listen to the stories as this will also be considered in the indoor activities as this will help in the
making the things learn through the stories. Sticking the images on the walls which makes them
learn the things will be hanged as this will also provide the attractive place for them.
Placing of the physical items will allow them to touch the them such as the globe and many
more. When the globe will be placed this will help them in knowing the world.
The indoor play environment will be such as-

Effective in experience: The children are very keen to learn the new things by touching them as
well as experiencing them practically. At this stage, the children's learn much about the
environment so the things which will help them in learning the things will be designed.
Importance to children's: It is very important for the teachers to make the children's feel special
as this helps them in interacting with the teachers. Making the children's aware that the what they
are doing is much meaningful as well as important.
Opportunities for cognitive activities: The young children's are fond of doing the activities such
as playing in the water, building things through the mud, making things by using the woods and
many more.
Creating this type of the environment helps the children's to learn the things while playing. The
children's learning through the play helps them in developing the skills.

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