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Activity
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Specific Skills Learned
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Finding toys or learning materials to work with by self or with others
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Cognitive: Makes decisions about interests and abilities.
Self-help: Finds toys by self or sets up environment for play.
Social/Language: Learns to share, barter, manage conflict, and ask for help.
Emotional: Learns about acceptance and rejection. Expresses needs.
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Block play
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Physical: Learns to balance blocks and line them up (small motor coordination).
Cognitive; May count blocks, sees pattern and design. Learns to build and plan structure. Matches blocks that look alike. Place blocks in order from smallest to largest (size discrimination and seriation).
Social/Language: Learns to share and cooperate. By expanding with block people, farm animals or other props, the child learns to express feelings and conversations with other children through the prop.
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Dramatic play
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Social: Plays adult roles. Develops self-image and coordinates with others.
Language: Learns to express self in another role. Learns new words of props or actions related to the theme (vocabulary building).
Cognitive: Decides appropriate dress and appearance for role: uses visual perceptions to assess self, others, and play environment. Learns and remembers behaviors to imitate. Develops abstract thinking abilities. Learns about theme or careers.
Self-help: Dresses self. Sets up play environment and finds props.
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Setting the table
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Cognitive: Counts silverware, glasses, and napkins, or places one object by each setting. Follows pattern of place settings.
Social: Cooperates with other children. May teach younger children to help.
Physical: Picks up and places objects (small motor coordination).
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Sitting down to eat
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Physical: Pours milk, passes the dish (small motor coordination).
Cognitive: Measures to pour. Understands directions.
Social/Language: Learns appropriate table conversation and manners. May learn new words for cooking/eating utensils or foods (vocabulary building).
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Story time or listening to music
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Cognitive: Listens and retains information. Follows story line (sequencing) with eyes and/or ears. Recognizes words, pictures, instruments, and rhythms (visual/auditory discrimination, word/letter recognition).
Language: Learn words to new songs (vocabulary building).
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Fingerplays and songs
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Cognitive/Language: Learns words, gestures, and melody (sequencing, repetition, speech and listening skills). Follows directions.
Physical: Coordination (small and large motor) for gestures and fingerplays.
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Dance
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Cognitive/Language: Listens to music and rhythms melody (sequencing, repetition, speech and listening skills). Learns to understand simple movement directions and their relationship to the music.
Physical: Coordinates movements (large motor).
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Climbing/riding
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Cognitive: May count the rungs to the top of a climbing structure: plans their climb. Maps out direction and distance to ride: watches for others in path.
Physical: Large motor coordination, balance, and hand/foot-eye coordination.
Social: Takes turns, interacts.
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Sand play
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Cognitive: Measures sand and maps out roads (special relationships).
Physical: Pours, dumps, pushes, gathers, scoops, packs (small and large motor skills).
Social: Shares, interacts, cooperates.
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Putting toys away
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Cognitive: Sorts toys, follows directions.
Language: May learn beginning sight words if shelves/baskets/boxes are marked with pictures and words (letter/word recognition).
Physical: Places object on the shelf, replaces lids, opens and shuts doors (self-help skills).
Social: takes turns, learns to handle toys carefully.
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