May 2024: Play May be The Key to Avoiding the Summer Slide
May 2024: Play May be The Key to Avoiding the Summer Slide
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Why free play?
Why free play?
Free play allows kids uninterrupted time to be creative, notice cause and effect, practice handling small disappointments, experience how mistakes grow their brains, discover new things and allows time to practice solving conflict with peers.
This is not the time for you to play with your child or jump in to solve their disapointments or conflicts. It's your time to say, "I trust that you will figure it out." and let the cards fall as they may.
Collaborative Play!
Collaborative Play!
Put away your tech and play. Making time to play with your children sends a message that they are important to you. This is your chance to model good sportsmanship and positive ways to deal with disappointment and conflict resolution. Play games together.
Games are a great way to improve executive functioning skills. And they're FUN too!
Pictionary (flexibility, time-management)
Distraction (attention, self-control)
Clue (organization, taking turns)
Blurt (self-control, meta-cognition)
Scrabble (planning, organization)
5 Second Rule (time-managment, task initiation)
Boggle (organization, time-management)
Quiddler (organization, flexible thinking)
Chess (self-control, planning/strategy)
Risk (self-control, planning/strategy)
Operation (self-control)
Monopoly (planning/organization, self-control)
Sorry (self-control)
Play Outside!
Play Outside!
In the US, 42% of people are now nearsighted, up from 25% back in the 1970's according to Colorado Public Radio. One hypothesis is the time kids are spending on close range viewing like time on tech. An easy fix is to play outside at least two hours a day. Read the whole article here.
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