Playing Outside: Increasing Intelligence and Physical Skills (11.9)

Playing Outside is only important to burn off energy for students so they can sit still in the classroom.

Crossing the midline is an important skills for which of the following:

Which of the following is NOT a soft skill:

Literacy connections and read-alouds are NOT a great way to connect children to nature and outside play.

Children will naturally increase their communication skills with each other by:

Mud kitchens help children work with each other and be creative.

When children are given time and space they will naturally create their own games and play ideas.

Outside play is important for growing skills in students including:

Case Study: A young girl. Age 4 is running around on the playground. She runs up the small hill and falls. She gets up and finally makes it to the top. When she gets to the top she sees a friend and shoves him with two hands to the ground. The teacher comes over and encourages her to ask her friend to play instead of pushing her friend. She practices saying “Will you play with me?” and the two children run off together. They run to the climbing wall and work together to get to the top. It isn’t easy for the little girl to get to the top, but she keeps trying and trying because her friend tells her she can do it. After they are finished with the climbing wall they run off to swing. The little girls starts crying immediately because there is not a swing open. The teacher comes to her and helps her ask for a turn on the swing. Once her friend says she can swing next, she happily sits and waits her turn to swing. What soft skills is this little girl working on? Name 2 ways that the girl is practicing her communication skills? What could the teacher do to help the girl strengthen her midline and core on the playground? Which areas of growth are described in this scenario?