Children Learning through Play. Education Coursework

Children Learning Through Play
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Children Learning Through Play
When children decide to engage in play, they are always not thinking of what they will gain from the game. Yet, their play creates excellent learning opportunities across all their developmental domains. By choosing to play, children develop skills and knowledge in different areas of their development, which include; emotional, physical, intellectual, and social skills (Copple & Bredekamp, 2010). Children learn through playing in various ways; for example, they observe other children playing. This allows them to learn the rules of the game, which enables them to fit in the system after some time. Secondly, children learn new social skills through objects and people while playing. They achieve this through the sharing of toys and working together. Moreover, playing builds their cognitive abilities through undertaking some tasks such as figuring out how to make a structure with smaller blocks; this helps to develops their skills and confidence (Morrison, 2015). Furthermore, children play alone and learn how to work independently. This bu...