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- 4. when a child plays alone, without interacting with other children or adults, to entertain themselves independently.
- 5. involves using large muscle groups to control and coordinate the arms, legs, and torso for activities like walking, running, jumping, throwing, and climbing. It is essential for children's physical development, building strength, balance, and coordination, and forms the foundation for more complex motor skills.
- 8. refers to how play helps individuals, particularly children, build self-assurance, self-worth, and resilience by allowing them to take risks, explore emotions, practice skills, and overcome challenges in a safe and supportive environment.
- 10. involves activities that use the small muscles in the hands and fingers, requiring coordination with the eyes. Examples include playing with playdough, threading beads, using tweezers to pick up small objects, solving puzzles, drawing and colouring, building with blocks like LEGOs, and using scissors or hole punches.
- 11. any activity that involves whole-body movement and the use of gross motor skills like running, jumping, and climbing, but also includes smaller movements that develop fine motor skills.
- 12. Boosting cognitive skills,self-regulation; developing physical capabilities like coordination, balance, and gross motor skills; and supporting language development through storytelling and negotiation.
- 13. the first stage of play development, where a child, typically an infant from birth to three months, observes their environment and makes random, seemingly purposeless movements with their body.
- 15. an imaginative, open-ended, child-led activity where children explore, experiment, and express themselves through activities like art, storytelling, dance, and building.
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- 1. a form of play where individuals work together toward a common goal, involving communication, negotiation, and sharing to achieve the objective.
- 2. a stage of development, usually for children aged 3-5, where they play alongside each other, sharing some materials and communicating, but without a common goal or coordinated effort.
- 3. refers to how children use play to develop and practice vital communication skills, such as verbal expression, understanding gestures, turn-taking, and social interaction, all within a relaxed and engaging environment.
- 6. involves manipulating language for fun or effect, occurring in both children and adults as they create rhymes, jokes, and new words to explore language's structure and meaning.
- 7. symbolic play where children use objects, actions, or ideas to represent something other than their literal meaning.
- 9. a developmental stage in young children, typically between two and three years old, where they observe others playing without participating.
- 14. a stage of child development, primarily for toddlers aged 18 months to 3 years, where children play side-by-side with similar toys but without directly interacting or sharing a game.