Your donation will help create a dramatic play space in our classroom. Studies show that pretend play (or dramatic play) give children the opportunity to learn about themselves and the world, work out confusing, scary, or new life issues, develop important complex social and higher order thinking skills, cultivate social and emotional intelligence, and synthesize knowledge and skills.
Because learning and child development doesn’t happen in discrete pockets of time or during isolated activities, children need opportunities to blend their skills and knowledge together. Pretend play is an ideal way to do this. If you donate to my project, the play food will allow children to play ‘grocery’ store. They sort by attributes as they group similar foods in sections of the store, use math concepts to tabulate amounts as they determine prices and calculate grocery bills, use writing to communicate by making signs, experiment with shapes and weights as they organize the store, work collaboratively as they assign roles and play together, and much more.
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Your donation will help create a dramatic play space in our classroom. Studies show that pretend play (or dramatic play) give children the opportunity to learn about themselves and the world, work out confusing, scary, or new life issues, develop important complex social and higher order thinking skills, cultivate social and emotional intelligence, and synthesize knowledge and skills.
Because learning and child development doesn’t happen in discrete pockets of time or during isolated activities, children need opportunities to blend their skills and knowledge together. Pretend play is an ideal way to do this. If you donate to my project, the play food will allow children to play ‘grocery’ store. They sort by attributes as they group similar foods in sections of the store, use math concepts to tabulate amounts as they determine prices and calculate grocery bills, use writing to communicate by making signs, experiment with shapes and weights as they organize the store, work collaboratively as they assign roles and play together, and much more.
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