Early learning is not about ABC and 123. Learning confidence and competence are about social and emotional development and executive functioning skills. These skills are learned through play!
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I’m so excited to be on the Bottomless MOMosa podcast! This episode is all about empowering parents to feel confident in their expertise, open to new ways of seeing their children and engaging in play, and letting go of the guilt to reach their goals
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Learning is important to you, and you want your children to be successful! How can you keep the learning momentum going or reignite curiosity and creativity? Play is the way! Learn Play Grow supports families and teachers with innovative ways to learn through play. Learn Play Grow helps young children with diverse abilities learn sight words using Star Wars and Angry Birds, social skills using Hungry Hippos and Yeti in My Spaghetti, math skills using treasure maps and cooking, and literacy skills using puzzles, puppets, drama, and dance.
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“I sure am glad I made that investment!” said the Monopoly master. Learning through play helped transform explosive behavior and school work refusal into executive functioning and math skills!
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Opportunities for learning together are all around us, and everything we do can have therapeutic value. Now more than ever we need to celebrate this potential to reimagine education, intervention, and family engagement. Learn Play Grow supports education, intervention, and family engagement at home, at school, and in the community to help children of all abilities reach their greatest potential.
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Learn Play Grow brings goals and strategies from school and therapy to life at home through developmentally-appropriate play that includes siblings and engages parents. Learning doesn’t just happen at school, and therapy is not something to do once a week. Opportunities for learning and using strategies and skills from therapy are all around!
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Research shows play can improve children's abilities to plan, organize, get along with others, and regulate emotions. In addition, play helps with language, math and social skills, and even helps children cope with stress. Giving [children] plenty of opportunities to play is one of the best ways to help them grow into curious, creative, healthy, and happy adults equipped with the skills they need.”
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Play is how children learn. Play is also how children learn how to learn. Play is that powerful!For some families, literacy learning is fraught with anxiety. In one of my families, the parents were anxious for their son to learn his sight words, and their son was anxious about being drilled with flashcards. Creativity and flexibility alleviated everyone’s anxiety and sparked learning through play!
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Welcome to Learn Play Grow! My name is Rebecca, and I created Learn Play Grow to help you foster connection within families, communication between colleagues, and collaboration among teams. If you are a parent wanting to connect with your child, a teacher wanting your students to listen, a therapist looking to maximize intervention, or a school striving for best practices, Learn Play Grow is for YOU.
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