Skills Children Learn through Play

Block Play 

Specific Skills Learned: 

• Physical: Learns to balance blocks and cause and effect, while developing their small motor coordination.

• Cognitive: May count, blocks and see pattern and design. Learns to build and plan structure. Matches block that look- alike.

• Social: Learns to share and cooperate.

Story time 

Specific Skills Learned:

• Cognitive: Listens and retains information. Pre-reading skills, word recognition, follows storyline with eyes and ears. 

• Language: Learns words and speaking skills.

• Music: finger plays and songs 

• Cognitive: Learns rhythms, instruments, learns words, gestures and melody. Is able to learn to listen and follow directions. Learns by repetition and speech.

• Physical: Coordination (small and large motor) for movement, gestures and finger plays.

Putting Away Toys

Specific Skills Learned:

• Cognitive: Sorts toys, listens and learns to follow simple directions.

• Social: Takes turns, learns to handle toys carefully and with respect.

• Physical: Places object on the shelf, replaces lids, opens and shuts doors (small and large motor coordination).