For children, playing is a natural and pleasurable method to be active, healthy, and happy. Freely selected play promotes the healthy development of children and adolescents. From birth to adolescence, they require a variety of unstructured play experiences to maintain excellent physical and mental health and to develop life skills.
Playing can help children develop their social skills with others. By listening, paying attention and sharing play experiences, this helps a child:
explore their feelings
develop self-discipline
learn how to express themselves
work out emotional aspects of life.
Playing can help children develop their social skills with others. By listening, paying attention and sharing play experiences, this helps a child:
explore their feelings
develop self-discipline
learn how to express themselves
work out emotional aspects of life
Put simply, a flashcard is a piece of card that has a cue or hint on the front side, and a corresponding answer on the back side. The cue can be a question, an image, or just one word that prompts or triggers an anticipated response. Anything that can be studied in a “question and answer” format can be literally turned into flashcards — from definitions, foreign language vocabularies, scientific symbols, historical dates and traffic signs, to countries and their respective capitals or currencies.
2. How play contributes to a child's
development
For children, playing is a natural and pleasurable method to be active, healthy,
and happy. Freely selected play promotes the healthy development of children
and adolescents. From birth to adolescence, they require a variety of
unstructured play experiences to maintain excellent physical and mental health
and to develop life skills.
3. Developing physical health through play
Physical play such as running, skipping and riding a bicycle helps children
develop:
● good physical fitness
● agility
● stamina
● co-ordination
● balance
4. Developing social skills through play
Playing can help children develop their social skills with others. By listening,
paying attention and sharing play experiences, this helps a child:
● explore their feelings
● develop self-discipline
● learn how to express themselves
● work out emotional aspects of life
5. What are flashcards?
Put simply, a flashcard is a piece of card that has a cue or
hint on the front side, and a corresponding answer on the
back side. The cue can be a question, an image, or just one
word that prompts or triggers an anticipated response.
Anything that can be studied in a “question and answer”
format can be literally turned into flashcards — from
definitions, foreign language vocabularies, scientific
symbols, historical dates and traffic signs, to countries
and their respective capitals or currencies.
6. FLASHCARDS -Keys to Success
Learn; don't memorize. Flashcards can be dangerous if only used to regurgitate facts
rather than actually learning the material. Make sure your flashcards are engaging
with more than simple definitions. You might even put in a few that ask an application
question to help you actively learn the concept.
Involve your senses. The more senses you involve in your study habits, the more apt
you are to actively engage with the material. By creating your own cards, you involve
touching and seeing. If you study with a friend or say your answers aloud, you involve
hearing and seeing. If you flip through the cards during a break, you involve touching,
hearing, and seeing. All of these sense will help you move the material to your long-
term memory.
Make them fun! No one said that using flashcards had to be boring. Use different
colored index cards and markers to help you visualize the information. Determine a
reward system based on correct responses. Create a flashcard game with your study
group: divide into teams and keep score.
7. Benefits of Jigsaws
Playing with puzzles has significant impacts on a child’s physical skills, developing
fine motor skills through the coordination of small muscles.
● Develop fine motor skills
● Improve their spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination.
● Cognitive benefits
● Develop their reasoning and decision making skills
● Become more confident and persistence
● A sense of achievement
● Encourage independent and subliminal learning
8. Puzzles give kids the chance to use adaptable thinking,
deduction and reasoning skills as they figure out how to
put the puzzle together. The fact that they need to
remember shapes and patterns, helps to develop their
memory retention (not a bad thing for parents as they age
either!)
You can, therefore, use Puzzles like Zigyasaw’s giant floor
puzzles, to develop or improve cognitive skills and gain
the ability to think abstractly. When children see an
empty space where a puzzle piece may fit, they need to
figure out what type of shape if needed to fill that space.
