My Connections To Play

• “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato.

• “Play for young children is not recreation activity… It is leisure- time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body, and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he have met.” James L. Hymes, Jr., child development Specialist, author.

 

 

During my younger days all, I have to play with was a raggedy Ann Doll, A corn cob with the silk for hair placed in a soda bottle, and a crew, crew train. That all dad and mom could afford, because we were very poor dad and mom have 15 children.

Dad and mom were the proud parents of fifteen children and every one of us were very activity in play. We walked for miles going to church, and dad used to carry every one of us to fishing and hunting with him. We ran and played basketball, baseball, and socket ball, we played marbles, hide and seek, swimming in the pond and singing gospel songs and clapping our hands. We were a wholesome family and loved to get out and play. My dad took the time out and played with each of his children.
We went to school ate breakfast and went to different classes and before lunch we went out to recess. We played about an hour and went back to our classroom, we were healthier, and we did not know the word obese because we was able to have recess twice a day. In today society, the government has put a stop to recess that is the number one reason for obese. Obesity has become the number one problem in the United States of America. Yes! Things had changed when it come to the children going outdoor exploring the world and discovering nature and their surroundings through play.

                                                                    References:

·         Bruner, Jerome. (1996). The culture of education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

·         Chard, Sylvia. (1999). From themes to projects. Early Childhood Research & Practice, 1(1). Retrieved July 3, 2006, from http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v1n1/chard.html