3. How do children build their
understanding of numbers?
How do they build literacy?
How do you they build science?
How do we do this through play?
4. Games and socialization
Rules change as kids age
They master moral rules as they
understand rules of a game
They master cooperation and
competition
Kinship play (ages as they age)
5. “Social play is not always positive
and can be hurtful to some children”
(Elkind, 2007, p. 162).
How does this happen?
6. What is it?
In early childhood
In middle childhood
