Importance of Playtime for Kindergarteners

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Kindergarteners Get Little Time to Play. Why Does It Matter?
CHRISTOPHER BROWN.
The first article explores the fact that kindergarteners often get very little time to play, and
that it matters a lot as it is taking away precious play time from five year olds who require the
play time more than their teacher-led academic life. Even teachers admit that there is a lot of
pressure on the teachers from the parents to make sure that their children excel academically.
However this tends to have adverse effects as the children start lacking in curiosity and stop
looking for answers as they are already concocted and provided for them to mindlessly learn
and use. This dulls their brains. Thus, it is important to advocate play time for children. Rules
diminish a child’s curiosity and ability to go take risks. Though play time, they can explore
hands on learning activities that enable them to interact, get curious and internalize new
information by trial and error than by pure learning. It even helps them make social
connection with their peers that helps them learn what they pother person has learnt through
conversations. It helps them explore which is way more important at such an early stage than
learning what has already been explored because it helps them boost their confidence. The
starting days of one’s life pave the way for the rest of it as recounted in the Bible. “Start
children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from
it.” (Proverbs 22:6).
Playtime must be integrated within the classroom, academics that are taught within
the context of the play tend to find interest in studies. The drive to play is extremely strong in
every healthy child and it must be utilized to benefit the child. Children inevitably grow and
many are of the view that through pure academics they might grow faster but this wrong, fast
growth is not necessarily proper growth so children must have enough time to grow along

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with their creativity and curiosity intact, this is why playtime must be included along with
academics ("What Happened to Kindergarten? | Scholastic", 2019).
Head Start
A Bridge From Past to Future
BLYTHE S.F. HINITZ
In the second article, the varying views on the Head Start program is discussed. It was
envisioned as program that will promote parent involvement in early education, serve diverse
populations and help low income families get access to early education for their children,
which is focused and well planned to help them excel in their lives. The head start theory
focuses on Freud’s emphasis on the early days of a child, Wellman’s theory about different
IQ levels, epistemological studies, and various other reports that focus on child education and
psychology. Head Start is emphasized on and is in practice still today as it gives various
families a voice and keeps building on their foundation of early education along with social
justice. Every child deserves they correct for of education, even the poor child. If they receive
it, they will inevitably learn from it and help their parents out in trouble It will make the
empathetic and successful. There has been cases of children excelling with the help of this
program. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing. (Psalm
37:26)
The National head Start association has improved the life of 32 million children,
regardless their condition at birth, the life and education they deserve. Every child has the
right to do better, and this platform enables them, with a head start into education that will
help them do better. Not only does it take care of the child, it also makes sure that the family