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Playing & Exploring – Playing with what they know
Once babies have learned something about the properties of objects they move on to see what they can do with them – how they can play with them. Find out how this develops into sophisticated pretend play, developing rules and problems for them to solve and supporting their self-regulation.Good for looking at
- Characteristics of effective teaching and learning
- Playing with what they know
- Pretend play
- Object play
- Co-operative play
- Symbolising
- Problem solving
- Turn taking
- Agreeing to the rules of play
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- What have you got?
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- Once babies have learned something
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- about the properties of objects,
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- they move on to see what they can do with them.
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- How the can play with them.
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- As the brain develops
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- they begin to make one thing stand for another.
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- They learn to symbolize.
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- Oh, Asmani's having a taste.
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- Yum, yum, yum.
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- That tastes good.
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- This goes along with starting to use words.
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- The sound stands for something
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- that was symbolizing.
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- Stone.
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- Got to take the stone out.
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- Play quickly begins to incorporate pretending.
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- And this comes to take up masses of children's playing time.
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- It's a fantastic ability,
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- as well as being very enjoyable for children,
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- it has many benefits.
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- It encourages children to communicate and to use language,
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- to co-operate and take turns.
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- Children learn to think about all those points of view,
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- as they think of possible scenarios,
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- and negotiate taking rules as they act out
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- constantly changing storylines.
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- Children need to use their self-regulatory skills
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- to be able to stick to any rules of the play.
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- Like how many times have they become be naughty.
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- They cooperate in solving problems.
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- It can be totally engrossing.
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- This plays based at first
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- on real experiences of things they know.
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- Later it begins to incorporate imaginary possibilities,
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- giving very sophisticated play experiences.
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- As well as pretending, children carry on
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- including objects in their play,
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- creating more and more sophisticated problems
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- for themselves to solve.
