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Play and Early Learning

and administrators to give age appropriate exercises and play experiences to
children.

Notes
INTEXT QUESTONS 11.3

State whether the following statements are true or false:
(a) Arrangement of play materials and other equipment does not have any
influence on children’s activities.

(b) Supervision is very essential for outdoor play activities.
(c) Play activities that involve swinging, walking, running, jumping, sliding,
etc. help in large muscle coordination.

(d) Teachers and parents should know development changes during a child’s
life.

11.6 PLAY-BASED ACTIVITIES FOR ALL DOMAINS

Since children learn, grow and develop through play, the activities which are
organised for children should be based on play encompassing all domains of
development. There are three divisions in the development domain. They are:
1. Cognitive and language domain

2. Affective (socio-emotional ) domain

3. Psychomotor domain

Activities for cognitive domain: Children gather information about basic
concepts like time, number, space, position, shape and sound. Activities for cognitive
development comprise activities for proper use of senses, concept formation (concept
of colour, shape, size, number, space, volume, length, weight, speed and time)
and basic cognitive skills.

Games for listening, discriminating sounds, discriminating different surfaces
(smooth and rough), distinguishing between good and bad smell, identifying
different colours, dance and music, etc.can be arranged for stimulating the use of
senses effectively and also for concept formation.

For basic cognitive skills, it is better to do activities like puzzles, story completion,
picture completion, science experiments, memory games, stories, logical
sequencing (thinking, reasoning and problem solving), making patterns, recalling
of sequential activities, etc.

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