Sense-ational Play!
Experiential learning in the early years
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-415-63374-1 (ISBN)
Description
Young children are naturally curious and learn through their experiences. Providing play opportunities that enable children to explore through all their senses develops their imagination, problem solving skills, resilience, sociability and creativity.
This highly practical book looks at how practitioners can engage and challenge children's thinking using multisensory play through real and imaginary situations. It clearly explains the benefits of this approach and demonstrates how it can used to best effect in the key areas in an early years setting including the creative area, home area, role play area, discovery area, construction area and outside.
Each chapter features:
Suggested experiences that could be offered and the outcomes that they would support
a list of useful resources,
vocabulary to encourage mathematical and scientific thinking, communication and social skills
Cross curricular activities
Learning journeys, case studies and examples of excellent practice
Written by a leading consultant and trainer, the book aims to inspire practitioners and help them to take full advantage of the opportunities for learning presented by multisensory play.
This highly practical book looks at how practitioners can engage and challenge children's thinking using multisensory play through real and imaginary situations. It clearly explains the benefits of this approach and demonstrates how it can used to best effect in the key areas in an early years setting including the creative area, home area, role play area, discovery area, construction area and outside.
Each chapter features:
Suggested experiences that could be offered and the outcomes that they would support
a list of useful resources,
vocabulary to encourage mathematical and scientific thinking, communication and social skills
Cross curricular activities
Learning journeys, case studies and examples of excellent practice
Written by a leading consultant and trainer, the book aims to inspire practitioners and help them to take full advantage of the opportunities for learning presented by multisensory play.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-63374-1 (9780415633741)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction: experiential learning; 1. The benefits of multisensory play; 2. Engaging environments to support play; 3. Creativity zone (messy, manipulative); 4. Cozy zone (books, rhymes and poetry); 5. Physical zone (gross and fine motor skills); 6. Curiosity zone (treasure and texture baskets); 7. Discovery zone (cause and effect, change, science); 8. Construction zone (blocks, bricks); 9. Home zone (home corner, food, life skills); 10. Investigation zone (exploration and experimentation); 11. Imagination zone (role play, artistic ideas)