Session 4
1. Session 4
1.12. Session 4 Summary
Session 4: Providing for Play
Session Summary
Important: The quiz may contain questions beyond points highlighted in this summary. Be sure to review the session thoroughly.
Review Session 4 to prepare for writing the quiz. As you review, note the sections that connect with the following points:
- This session provided you with a number of specific methods for establishing a dynamic play environment for children.
- To facilitate play, a child care provider must provide a variety of safe and age-appropriate materials in the environment, observe children and their play, and be involved in or around the children’s play.
- Facilitation is based on observation and the environment by providing space, time, materials, and guidelines.
- Observation is based on watching both the social and creative stages of play. The child care provider then plans the environment based on the developmental and individual needs of the children.
- Involvement in children’s play should be constructive—adding materials when needed and intervening in disputes and redirecting play.
- Plan play so that it encourages children to have personal direction and develop social, physical, intellectual, creative, emotional, and language skills.
Session Quiz
Checking In
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