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How play supports children's social skills - Coggle Diagram
How play supports children's social skills
Role Play area
Children can communicate with one another when playing role play games such as a restaurant or hotel.
This links to the CoEL of creating and thinking critically.
Children can re-enact stories in the roleplay area so therefore allowing them to learn new vocabulary and practice using this vocabulary during communication.
Creative area
Children can communicate with one another when creating. This could be drawing, paininting, colouring and building.
This links to the CoEL of creating and thinking critically.
Children will have to share resources in this area. This therefore gives children the opportunity to work on their social skills and the vocabulary that they need to use in order to get their opinions accross.
Children in this area may also be working in a group to create something. This allows for children to develop on their team working skills.
This also provides children with the opportunity to develop on their active listening skills so that they are listening and taking on board what other children are saying as well as conveying their own thoughts, feelings and opinions.
Mud kitchen
Children in this area may be 'cooking' or 'baking' together. This supports children to learn how to communicate effectively with those around them to voice their thoughts and opinions.
This links to the CoEL of playing and exploring and creating and thinking critically.
In this area many children will have to share the resources so this area provides the children with opportunities to develop on their sharing skills.
The play-doh table
Children in this area often have to share their resources. This is something that I saw mostly during Professional Practice. Therefore, this area allows children to practice their social skills such as sharing and working as a group/team.
This links to the CoEL of creating and thinking critically.
During my Professional Practice the play-doh table was very popular with the children as lots of children enjoyed this so many of the children had to develop their social skills of asking to have a turn, waiting patiently, sharing and negotiating with other children so all of their needs and wants were met during the play
Construction area
During my Professional Practice, many children's towers or buildings were knocked down by accident or on purpose by other children in this area. This allowed for the children to develop on their empathy. This was seen in the Nursery when the children began to help a child to rebuild their tower/building after it was knocked down.
This links to the CoEL of active learning.
In this area many children can experience a range of different emotions while building. This therefore allows for children to develop their self-regulation skills during this play.
In this area children can also build on their self confidence. This is because many children may enter this area thinking that they won't be able to build what they want and that they 'can't do it'. Therefore the more that children are able to access this area and practice their building skills they are more likely to develop on their self confidence.