| The Imagination Playground for our young children has allowed the children to be immersed in a rich environment of free play as well as collaborative play all while building creativity, innovativeness, and cooperative problem solving team building. These blocks have also provided an opportunity for higher-order thinking skills and problem solving in both reading and math.
These life size blocks are open-ended and have provided opportunities for so much creativity and imagination. This opportunity to build together with peers has provided the opportunity of higher level thinking while interacting and collaborating with peers. This type of problem solving play provides opportunities to build teamwork and promote thinking critically. During this play, we have observed development of character skills that have developed grit, resilience and self control. It is amazing to watch and observe these young children develop language and problem solving skills across the curriculum all during a process that most believe to be “just play”.
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