Play is not recess from education; play IS education

Playfulness motivates children to practice new skills.

Children play:

• In physical ways - climb, chase, tumble: It develops strong bodies and movement.
• In risky ways: They learn to manage fear and develop courage.
• With language: That is how they become competent with language.
• Socially: They learn to communicate and get along with others.
• Games with implicit or explicit rules: They learn to navigate and negotiate rules.
• Imaginative games help them to learn to think hypothetically and creatively in collaboration with others.
• With logic.
• At building things.

Children are born with an instinctive knowledge that their survival and wellbeing depend on their ability to connect with and learn from other people. As soon as they can communicate, they will inquire about their world, for the connection and information. 

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