Running head: ASSIGNMENT 6.

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Assignment 6.1 Signature Assignment

Yanett Cristina Munguia

Fresno Pacific University

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Signature Assignment

Play refers to engaging in an activity of choice for personal enjoyment and or recreational

purposes. Rather than being serious to a practical purpose, mostly children play can also be an

athletic activity. Play is an essential part of early childhood education. Providing children with

three benefits, of why play is important. Children are able to gather skills, development, and

social development and developing a more creative imagination.

Skills are abilities to complete certain tasks. Development is the process through which

children begin to process and experience growth in certain areas. Social development is a big

deal for children to develop at a young age it is crucial for further developments. Focusing in the

way people develop their social skills as well as the emotional skills gained throughout life. The

period of time that the development occurs is in early childhood and adolescence. Maintaining a

health social development permits people to form positive relationships with family, teachers,

friends and many other people you may come across in your life.

Play is the process children undergo in order to explore and learn seeking to figure out

why things are or certain way or hoe they function. All three areas of development serve for

children to play and seek answers developing as they go, and all the information gathered helps

them with other aspects. Young children do not learn by being taught they learn by doing things

hands on and exploring themselves.

Physical education is an activity that can pose a great benefit to a child and adults life.

But if it is neglected and not consistently carried on it can cause your health to deteriorate and

can cause future health problems. Through physical activities children can gather sets of skills,

that once mastered can provide children with better opportunities to be successful and persistent

in participating in activities that are health rewarding.

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“Over all, the world is becoming highly mechanized, sedentary and obesogenic,

developing skills that promote diverse movement foundation. Such as functional coordination

and control, allowing successful participation in ontogenetically driven activities that may be

highly viable tactic to promote or encourage sustained physical activity across the lifespan”

(Breuer & Wicker, 2009). Children are being expose more to tablets and seem to not be able to

complete any fun task if they do not have internet.

Becoming dependent on the social media web to gather their social development skills,

rather than going out to the park and making new friends like it was before. Through the Internet

you do not have any certainty that you actually know who you are getting to know. The media is

the main resource for mass communication with in the current generation.

People tend to make their decisions based off recommendations from the media, rather

than making their own rational decisions or derived from their personal emotions. A medium of

multiple means of communication is what media represents. Whether it is through the radio,

television, Internet or any type of social websites, newspapers, magazines are means of media.

Children are easy to manipulate through the media, because you just have to make things

look very colorfully and you have their attention. You can use popular cartoons to reach

children’s attention. Many times the children look towards the media or important people in their

lives as role models and what to be just like them or do what they do. Making it important for

parents, siblings, family members, friends and educators to be positive role models for children

and allow them to have good aspects to look forward to in life.

“Movement skill development can be described as the process of gaining motor or

movement skill competence through progressive sequences of coordination” (Newell, 1986).

Children were able to gather skills such as jumping, throwing a ball, object control, and specific
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sports. Activities that include recess, sports are all correlated with health issues. Recess allows

children to play for a short period of time through out the school day. Children will be able to

release tension for having to sit in class through out a long period of time.

I would have to that working with children that have exceptionalities there are a lot more

factors that can contribute to a child’s participation in activities such as recess, physical

education, are all essential factors that help the child build up on motor skills. Children do not

always want to participate in the activities therefore you have to find ways to engage them and

make the activity more appealing and appropriate for the children’s exceptionalities.

The classroom set up can affect the child’s behavior as well as the cognitive and focus.

Prevent displaying items that will take away the children’s attention from learning. I think that

over all having a strong communication between the teacher and the instructional assistants will

allow for a smooth preparation of activities and management of the classroom setting. When it

comes to the behavior management it is even more necessary for all the staff to be informed of

the proper way to confront and or redirect the inappropriate behaviors.

Certain factors can cause disruptions so it is important to know how to act accordingly to

the situation. The affectivity of behavior management allows you to focus that extra time on

effective classroom activities including all of the children. Behavior management can be a

distraction for the other children and takes time and attention from the other children. Focusing

on learning rather than the behavior management calls for a more successful positive learning

journey. When one child is upset it can lead to the other children becoming frightened or

distracted from the activities they are trying to carryout. Encouraging and promoting the children

to engage in physical activities will allow them to have a healthier lifestyle as well as allowing

them to de stress from being in an enclose environment for prolonged periods of time.
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