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Early Childhood |
| Education and Care News |
| July 30, 2019 |
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Kia ora, this week strategies to help you support those all-important early childhood friendships, and how to extend dramatic play using prop boxes.
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Supporting early childhood friendships
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Social interaction, bonding with peers, and establishing and maintaining friendships are important developmental milestones that offer children many benefits. Not only do friends have the power to boost happiness, reduce stress, and help children cope with life's difficulties, but they can encourage learning and help children develop confidence.
Encouraging children to develop and maintain friendships in the early years is an important role for educators, and this week we look at the reasons why.
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Prop boxes
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Tools for extending dramatic play
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Early childhood educators are very familiar with interest centres and learning corners and their importance in early childhood classrooms.
The dramatic/imaginary play centre, in particular, offers children unique opportunities to try on roles, make choices, verbally and symbolically interact with other children, solve problems creatively, and develop responsibility in caring for the tools in their community of young learners.
This week we have ideas for extending opportunities for dramatic play in your service and how to empower children to take full advantage of these opportunities.
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