What important activities that should be available to children within day-care to foster their development?
How would the environment be organized or designed? What feature of the environment would be important for children of different ages? What activities in day-care or pre-school programmes might help to promote the development of children’s behaviour and abilities? What activities or tasks would be important at different stages of childhood?
Public Comments
- are you an SUV driving soccer mother???
- Children are getting more, much more, than they have ever had before, but not so much as we think we are giving them, and perhaps, in view of all that is known, not as much as they need.
"Miss Palmer, in Play Life in the First Eight Years, gives several excellent suggestions for sense and movement plays in these years. Such apparatus as the slide, the swing, the balance board, the parallel bars, and the spring board may be placed in the yard, the playground or the basement if light and dry, and will afford unending pleasure and exercise. These pieces of apparatus are especially desirable because the fundamental muscles develop first in speed and accuracy and such play will call upon these muscles chiefly. The lifting and carrying of objects such as chairs, the large blocks (Hennessey or Patty Hill especially) and toys; the handling of tools such as chalk, scissors, hammer ; the manipulating of clay, sand, paper and wood, and the use of the voice in speaking and singing,—are all activities giving a natural physical development which ought to be encouraged."
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