Assessment of Play Space Learning Centre for Language & Literacy Development

Childcare.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Description.............................................................................................................................3
Observation and Description..................................................................................................3
Evaluation and Analysis.........................................................................................................3
Improvements.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................4
APPENDICES............................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The concept of gross motor skills are generally the larger movement activities like
rolling, sitting, crawling, walking, kneeing, running, skipping, jumping and many more. Most
of the times, when the children are given with independent, free play outdoors, they are
automatically participating in such types of the skills. In this, an appropriate age group or the
developmentally appropriate activities generally means the items or activities which are
specifically accepted as an appropriate for the children of the same chronological age or the
level of maturity or which are determined to be developmentally suitable for some children,
based on the development of cognitive, physical as well as emotional capacity of the child. In
this report, it will cover the description of specific motor skill development within children of
age group up to 3 years. There is a floor plan designed for the children to improve their motor
skills effectively. In addition to this, the discussion will also cover the effective
improvements to the play space or the learning centers in order to improve the learnings in
literacy and language among the children (Gordon, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Description
There is chosen age group of children is 3 years old. It is quite important for this age
group to develop gross motor skills among children, it is because it can effectively aid
children to learn how to coordinate as well as can control their movements of body. The
effectiveness of the gross motor skill development can also aid lay the foundation to be able
to complete the fine motor skill movement like grasping and pinching. Through the gross
motor skills, it can help the children to support the physical literacy, encourage the
confidence and self-esteem and can effectively develop the functioning of human brain. The
gross motor skill development can effectively reduce the frustrations and stress among the
children (Ouvry and Furtado, 2019).
Observation and Description
Through providing the gross motor skills to children, it is effectively observed that in
the initial times children were lack in some of the things such as their confidence level is
quite low, they are not able to share or tell their things or emotions with other people or
educators. In addition to this, it is effectively observed that, the children generally lack in the
physical activities as they were not performed physical activities in their daily routine which
makes them more lethargic. There is existing a play space or the learning centers of the