Dramatic Play Is Open!

 We opened dramatic play today! It was very exciting, although hard to wait for a turn. Here is some information about the benefits of dramatic play that I found in an article on www.pbs.org written by Tammy R. Bensen, Ed.D.

Benefits of play in the classroom include:

• Physical: increase in strength, overall fitness, motor skill development, health;
• Cognitive: increase in skills such as problem solving, creative thinking, planning, organizing, language, and overall academic success;
• Social and Emotional: enhanced development of cooperation, sharing, turn taking, less egocentrism, increase in prosocial values and self esteem, practice of appropriate social roles.