Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Curriculum Areas
- The Arts
- Medias: painting, music, dance, craft
- Effects children's;
creativity, meaning
making, imagination
- Maths and Science
- Child initiated play: Carruthers &
Worthington (2011), lack of
child-initiated play limits possibilities
for children to explore, restricts
opportunities for children to engage
in dialogue.
- 3 non-hierarchical ways:
- Symbolic play
- objects/signs/meanings
- exploring and communicating
- mathematical thinking/graphical
representations
- practical mathematical play
- blocks,
sand,
water clay
- 7 stages of
Block building
- Block Play: Pratt,
Smith-Hil,
Montessori
- Wait and listen to children rather then
looking for immediate outcomes
- Froebels Gifts
- Playful scribbles
and marks can be
related closely to
intellectual
development
- technology and outdoor play
- Technology
- designing,
media,
computers
and making
- Can limit and stimulate
creativity and socializing
- Must be used wisely balance
of indoor and outdoor activity
- Outdoor play
- Reasonable risk level
neccessary in play t develop
children's understanding of:
- Self-awareness
- Without opportunities to challenge
themselves children's understanding of safety
would not develop
- Risk, physical competence
and intellectual
understanding
- literacy and language
- A love of language and
learning develops as soon as
the child is born
- Literacy in a play centered curriculum: talking, singing,
sharing books, listening and telling stories, seeing and
recognising enviromental print, writing/drawing,
exposure to and use of ICT.
- Hill (2006) "language can be defined as
a system of symbols that are used to
communicate meaning."
- play is intimately tied to
communication:
gesture/action/talk/written
symbols
- ACARA 3 strands:
language/literacy/literature
- Key concepts
- Rich oral language/promote conversation