Ways to Play - Alice Ball

 

Alice's Website Play-Led Places

Get a copy of Te Whariki from Down the back of the Chair

Think about the play you engaged in as a child - how has this helped shape you as an adult?

Taking on different roles during role play helps children to develop and understanding of different peoples viewpoints as they undertake different roles.

Children are so clever when they play.

What are they showing they know through their play.

BOOK: The sacred urge to play Penny Brownlee

Resources
- small wooden rounds
- Black reels into classroom
- baskets for loose parts
- wooden crates (like beer crates)

Brain Development and the Role of the Early Years article

Curriculum Links:

Construction (Design and Build Places)
- Maths - shapes, colour, length, height....
- Social Sciences - 
- English - Purpose and audience, Ideas, Language, Structure
-The Arts - design, colour, balance
- Health & PE - spatial awareness, cooperation
- Science - force, motion, balance, 

Small Worlds, The Little Living Worlds
- Science Living World
- English
- Maths
- Social Science

Provide the loose parts and then students use pillow cases or mats to build their OWN worlds onto.

Role Play
Deconstructed Role Play - where the students create the role play for themselves
Alistar Bryce Clegg Mcgowan

Move the Maths
- providing baskets for them to move sets of objects around to sort, compare and organise transporting urge

Play and Patience: Relationships confidence / self esteem and Independence
Personal, social and emotional confidence and wellbeing affects all other areas.

The classroom environment is the third teacher.

Create display spaces for students to display work / creations they are proud of.

Cup of Kindness - have a class cup which is filled each time someone does something nice.