This document discusses the importance of play for children's learning and development. It states that through play, children improve their physical skills like strength, balance, and coordination. Play also helps children learn social and emotional skills such as sharing, taking turns, and following rules. The document argues that play allows children to practice skills needed for adulthood and helps them learn about the world through their senses. It emphasizes that play is critical for children's learning and should not be replaced by more academic settings at a young age.

2. What do children learn through play? I
chose this topic because I think play is so
important. So much learning takes place
during this time. Preschoolers’ playtime is
being replaced by academic settings at an
alarming rate. Youngsters are expected to
forfeit their most important activity. I feel
play helps prepare children for life.

4. PLAY is the Occupation of Childhood!

6. PLAY IS A WAY
OF LEARNING!

7. Play Can Be Fun.
Play Can Be Hard.
Play is the Way a Child
Learns About the World.
Play is a Child’s Work!

8. Play Helps Children
Grow Strong And
Healthy!
Through active play children improve:
Strength
Endurance
Balance
 Body Coordination

11. Playing teaches:
 Sharing
 Following Rules
 Taking Turns

13. Play Is Practice For Being A Grown-up.

15. Using Play and Senses to Learn About
Things In Our World.

17. Using PLAY and SENSES to
Develop Intellectual Skills
and Discover Differences in
How Things:
 Feel
 Look
Sound
Smell
 Taste

18. Using CREATIVE PLAY
to Imagine and Develop
Innovative Ideas Leading to Success.

19. Through SOCIAL PLAY Children
Act Out Feelings
 Listen
Talk

20. Children Learn:
 COOPERATION
IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP
SHARING

26. PLAY IS A TREASURED
PART OF A CHILD’S
EXISTANCE.
Play offers many IMPORTANT and
DEVELOPMENTAL BENEFITS!

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