Title project: pLAY, HAPPY CHILDREN, CREATIVE ADULTS
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pLAY, HAPPY CHILDREN, CREATIVE ADULTS Description of the
project: Play is a universal phenomenon with a pervasive and
enduring presence in human history. Ironically, play is
persistently undervalued, and childrens opportunities for
uninterrupted free play both indoors and out are under threat.
Children now spend far more time being taught and tested on
literacy and math skills than they do learning through play and
exploration, exercising their bodies, and using their imaginations.
Many kindergartens use highly prescriptive curricula geared to new
standards and linked to standardized tests. This is a tragedy, both
for the children themselves and for our nation and world. No human
being can achieve his full potential if his creativity is stunted
in childhood. And no nation can thrive in the 21st century without
a highly creative and innovative workforce. Nor will democracy
survive without citizens who can form their own independent
thoughts and act on them.
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pLAY, HAPPy CHILDREN,CREATIVE ADULTS Description of the project
continued: Young children work hard at play. They invent scenes and
stories, solve problems, and negotiate their way through social
roadblocks. They know what they want to do and work diligently to
do it. Because their motivation comes from within, they learn the
powerful lesson of pursuing their own ideas to a successful
conclusion. In the current climate of concern over school
readiness, we must preserve some opportunity for children to play
for their own purposes. If we trust the evidence that childrens
play is at the very heart of healthy growth and development of
early learning, we must ensure that children have sufficient time
and adequate resources and support to develop the ability to engage
independently in extended free play. If play always and exclusively
serves adult educational goals, it is no longer play from the
childs perspective. It becomes work, albeit playfully
organized.
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pLAY, HAPPy CHILDREN,CREATIVE ADULTS pre school subject age
group: 3-5 years old duration: 1 month 05.13-06.13 language:
English Details level: easy
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pedagogical issues will be exchanges became aware of different
cultures and languages learn to use computer, scanner, printer,
digital camera, video camera have fun develop their creativity
foster essential skills as critical thinking, observation, problem
solving and communication planned, realize and summarize their
activities and manage time by yourself cooperate and play
individually pLAY, HAPPy CHILDREN,CREATIVE ADULTS Project aims:
Children will
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computer video camera multifunktion printer digital camera
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wikispace kindergarten website wikispace kindergarten website
twinspace project diary mobile phone Skype e-mail mobile phone
Skype e-mail microsoft office 2010 adobe, tagxedo, smilebox,
vacaroo, Voki, slideshare microsoft office 2010 adobe, tagxedo,
smilebox, vacaroo, Voki, slideshare
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ROMANIA POLANDSPAIN PROJECT HEAD TEAM
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May 1-3 May 6-7 May 8-10 May 13 June 21 START FINISH The
co-ordination of plan of work and acceptance by all partners.
Amazing, cool, funny activities. Presentation of childrens
activities will be emailed to each partner. Integration of plans
into curriculum of each kindergarten. Discussing of lesson plans.
Childrens activities and work will be published on website,
Twinspace and project diary. June 24-28
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Children productions: arts, social plays, constructions,
physical play, games with rules; celebrate theirs Global Day, send
games with instruction to partners, printer, scan theirs works,
make a photo of theirs plays, get in touch with partners website of
each kindergarten etwinplay. wikispaces.com Twinspaces Project
diary website of each kindergarten etwinplay. wikispaces.com
Twinspaces Project diary Teacher productions: register children
plays, organize space and time; prepare as summarize presentation
PowerPoint, Smilebox by category of play, register audio voice of
plays by Vacaroo, exchange experiences of work with parners by
video conferencing and show effect of children work to parents,
other teachers, headmaster EVALUATION
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BENEFITS Play nourishes every aspect of childrens development
physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and creative. The
learning in play is integrated, powerful, and largely invisible to
the untrained eye. It is learning that is important to the learner.
Play develops the foundation of intellectual, social, physical and
emotional skills necessary for success in school and in life. It
paves the way for learning.Block building, sand and water play lay
the foundation for logical mathematical thinking, scientific
reasoning, and cognitive problem solving. Rough-and-tumble play
develops social and emotional self-regulation. Play fosters
creativity and flexibility in thinking. There is no right or wrong
way to do things; there are many possibilities in play a chair can
be a car or a boat, a house or a bed. Pretend play fosters
communication, developing conversational skills, turn taking, and
perspective taking, and the skills of social problem solving
persuading, negotiating, compromising, and cooperating. It requires
complex communication skills: children must be able to communicate
and understand the message, this is play. As they develop skill in
pretend play, children begin to converse on many levels at once,
becoming actors, directors, narrators, and audience, slipping in
and out of multiple roles easily. There is considerable fascination
among play researchers and theorists with the correlations between
childrens pretend play and cognitive development. The capacity for
pretense, developed so elaborately in socio-dramatic play, is
inextricably intertwined with the development of the capacity for
abstract, representational thinking. We marvel at the developmental
progression in thinking as the child gives up the need for a
realistic object in pretend play a banana, shoe, or simple hand
gesture replaces the toy telephone.