{"id":194,"date":"2020-03-19T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:00:58","slug":"learning-through-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/learning-through-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Through Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"> Taken from The American Occupational Therapy Association   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aota.org\/About-Occupational-Therapy\/Patients-Clients\/ChildrenAndYouth\/Play.aspx\">https:\/\/www.aota.org\/About-Occupational-Therapy\/Patients-Clients\/ChildrenAndYouth\/Building-Play-Skills-Healthy.aspx <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Can Parents and Families Do?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Encourage&nbsp;sensory rich&nbsp;play by using balls, sand and water toys, \nslides, swings, finger paints, and magnets. During sensory play, \nchildren use their senses to incorporate smell, touch, sound, vision, \nand movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Encourage manipulative play, such as using play dough, LEGOs, and \nboard games. Toys such as puzzles, pegboards, beads, and lacing cards \nhelp improve the child&#8217;s eye-hand coordination and dexterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Promote imaginative or pretend play with things like dolls and \nstuffed animals, toy furniture, puppets, and telephones. Pretend play \nencourages creativity and role playing and provides an opportunity to \nrehearse social skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Choose toys that are appropriate to the child\u2019s age and\/or maturity\n level. They do not have to be expensive or complicated to be \nbeneficial. Common objects, such as pots and pans, empty boxes, spools \nof thread, shoelaces, and wooden spoons are readily accessible and \nencourage children to use their imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Remember when choosing a toy to consider whether a child must be \nsupervised while playing with it. Toys should not have small parts that \nbreak easily or can be swallowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended Toys and Activities for Children and Teens<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Infants<\/strong>: Rattles, mobiles, playmats, mirrors, crib toys, infant swings, teething toys, busy boxes, squeeze toys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toddlers and Preschoolers:<\/strong> Blocks, stacking rings,\n pegboards, shape sorters, push and pull toys, balls, books, sand and \nwater toys, large beads, movement games, toy cars and trucks, train \nsets, musical toys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>School-Aged Children<\/strong>: Building sets, books, bicycles, roller skates, ice skates, board games, checkers, beginning sports<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Middle Schoolers and Adolescents:<\/strong> Athletics, books, hobbies, crafts, electronics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from The American Occupational Therapy Association https:\/\/www.aota.org\/About-Occupational-Therapy\/Patients-Clients\/ChildrenAndYouth\/Building-Play-Skills-Healthy.aspx What Can Parents and Families Do? \u2022 Encourage&nbsp;sensory rich&nbsp;play by using balls, sand and water toys, slides, swings, finger paints, and magnets. During sensory play, children use their senses to incorporate smell, touch, sound, vision, and movement. \u2022 Encourage manipulative play, such as using play dough, LEGOs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":828,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/burnetc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}