Learning to play outdoors

I chose to follow the learning to play outdoors blog because I agree with the views that the blogger has put forward.
This blogger believes that play based learning is an asset to education. I also believe this because I think that learning through play, especially at a young age is essential for developing young children’s key learning skills.

As Jenny the blogger says, these milestones are ‘underestimated by adults in favor of skills like reading and writing’.
Even the simple outdoor activity is developing all combinations of skills like teamwork, creative thinking and feeling successful.
Outdoor activity play is extremely important to a child, because it ensures fresh air, vitamin D and fun, as well as learning.

Although learning through play is extremely important for a child’s developmental skills, it still isn’t seen as important as reading writing and arithmetic’s. When the children become juniors in their primary school, learning through play is forgotten and replaced with rows of tables and books. However, I believe that both should be incorporate into their everyday learning in order to provide a substantial foundation to their learning.

This is the link for the Learning to play outdoors blog - http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/learning-through-play-outdoors.html