What's for lunch?

This is Kaiya reading her book called "What's for lunch?".  Thank you Kaiya for wanting to share this book with us. You read the book with confidence and with a clear voice. 

Well done and keep it up Kaiya! Kai pa!!

PBL: Play Room Time

            

Look at us!  We are learning through play. Students got the chance to explore the play room today and we will be going into the play room every Thursdays.

 Play is the work of the child, and children benefit cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally through dress-up play. 

When children engage in dress-up play, their imaginations are given free reign. There is no limit to who, where, or what they can be.

10 BENEFITS OF DRESS-UP PLAY FOR CHILDREN

1. Brain Building

Dress-up engages your child’s brain and memory. Dramatic play requires kids to remember what they’ve seen or heard. They remember how their mother behaves when performing household chores when they are imitating her. Or they recall the details of a fairy tale they’ve heard before acting it out.

2. Vocabulary Building

Dress-up play builds vocabulary as a child decides what his or her character would say. It gives them a chance to expand their vocabularies with words and phrases that they might have heard in stories, but wouldn’t ordinarily use. Children may then begin to use these new words in conversations.

3. Problem-Solving

Who’s going to be the doctor? Who’s going to be the patient? Children must make decisions when they engage in dress-up play. They practice problem-solving problems when deciding on what costumes elements and props each character needs to act out a scenario.

4. Empathy

When a child is engaged in role-play, it helps her see the world through another’s eyes which increases empathy – whether pretending to be a parent nurturing a baby, a doctor taking care of an injured patient, or a firefighter putting out a fire. Dramatic play helps children understand the role that helpers play in in our lives.

5. Emotional Development

Children are constantly confronted with scary situations that they don’t understand – whether witnessing an accident in real life, or seeing violent images on TV. Children process their fears through play, which helps them make sense of the world, and overcome their feelings of helplessness.

By allowing children to act out their fears through dress-up and role playing, we are helping their emotional development.

6. Motor Skills

Children develop fine motor skills by putting on dress-up clothes, whether buttoning a shirt, zipping up pants, or tying on a pirate’s bandana

They use their large motor skills when engaged in role-play, whether they are jumping like a superhero, running like a baseball player, or twirling like a ballerina.

7. Gender Exploration

When children choose costumes and characters to be, they are able to explore different gender identities and the behaviours of those characters.

While boys often want to be superheroes, firemen, or pirates, and girls often want to be fairies and princesses, it is normal and healthy for children to try on different gender roles as they learn about the world. A child should never be ridiculed for pretending to be a different gender.

8. Imitation

Children are naturally imitative creatures. They learn about the world by imitating the lives of the adults and others around them. Through dress-up and dramatic role-play, children explore the lives of other people by imitating their actions, feelings and words.

9. Socialization

Dress-up play encourages cooperation and taking turns. Children learn how to negotiate as they agree on stories and rules. They develop interest in others and learn how to give-and-take.

10. Imagination

Children’s imaginations are limitless, and have not yet been hardened and constrained by the “realities” of the world. Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education, believed that imaginative play in early childhood is the key to creative thinking during the adult years.

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MOBILE LIBRARY VISIT

   

The mobile library is here at Glenbrae School, Room 5 students are so lucky to be able to go into the library bus and read their lovely books. The students were so excited looking at different books and reading them. The students were able to find a book they really liked and issue them so they could take it back to class to read. Thank you ANU and thank you to the mobile library bus. 

See you again soon!

   

   

Learning Through Play

Wow look at us!! Glenbrae juniors are bringing in 'Learning Through Play'. By incorporating learning through play we are hoping to extend our students oral language. Students are loving pretend play and what great conversations they are having! 

Learning Through Play benefits:

• Problem solving and learning cause and effect
• Learning how to play with others through compromise, conflict resolution and sharing
• Development of fine and gross motor skills
• Nurturing their creativity and imagination
• Discovering their independence and positive self-esteem