Kids play learn

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‪Jimmi Bendtson‬

‪Family & kids‬

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Kids Play & Learn is a fun and colorful educational game for kids in the age 2 to 10. The game teaches your kid about colors, shapes, things that are related and opposites, counting, numbers, sounds, simple math, spelling and to tell the time through different types of puzzle mini games. In addition it teaches concentration through jigsaw puzzles of various difficulties. All in all Kids Play & Learn consists of 12 categories, 92 games and 1305 levels. The game is optimized for both touch and mouse input allowing it to be played by children of all ages including toddlers, preschoolers and school age. In addition the amount of games and the clever increase of difficulty make the game fun and long lasting. Kids Play & Learn is a versatile platform for simple puzzle games and new games are added regularly. Ideas for new game types will be appreciated, so do not hesitate to email suggestions. If you are able to provide the resources for the game like detailed game behavior, pictures, sounds, etc. the game can be added quickly. You will naturally be credited in the game.

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What's new in this version

Release 22: - New game category "Fill the Shape" added. Release 21: - New game added. Release 20: - Games updated - New graphics and images Release 19: - Spelling games added. Release 18: - Bug fixes. Release 17: - Translated into many more languages Release 16: - Translated into Japanese, Russian, Hindi and Chinese (simplified and traditional) Release 15: Complete the sequence game added. - Bug fixes. Release 14: Roman numerals game added. - Bug fixes. Release 13: - Bug fixes Release 12: - Bug fixes Release 11: - New games added - Translated into German and French - Bug fixes Release 10: - New logo - Bug fixes Release 9: - Bug fixes Release 8: - New languages added: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish - Bug fixes Release 7: - Look and feel updated. - Bug fixes Release 6: - 'Goes Together & Opposites games added - Improved Images, Sounds etc. - Improved animation and general look and feel. - Bug fixes Release 5: - Tell the Time game added - Bug fixes Release 4: - Bug fixes Release 3: - Bug fixes Release 2: - Minor bug fixes - Rate and review link added

Features

• 12 categories, 92 games and 1305 levels.
• Endless entertainment and learning for kids.
• Learn colors.
• Learn shapes.
• Learn to identify things that belongs together.
• Learn to identify things that are opposites.
• Learn counting and numbers.
• Learn the sounds of animals, musical instruments, vehicles and everyday objects.
• Learn simple math addition and subtraction.
• Animals and cartoon jigsaw puzzles.
• Learn to tell the time.
• Learn to match two related images.
• Learn roman numerals.
• Learn to complete the sequence.
• Learn simple spelling.

System Requirements

Recommended
Your device should meet these requirements for the best experience

OS	Windows 8. 1
Architecture	x86, x64, ARM, ARM64

The 6 Stages of How Kids Learn to Play

Play is all about having fun! Any activity, organized or unstructured, your child finds fun and enjoyable is considered play. But play is much more than just a fun activity for your child! As a child grows they go through different stages of play development.

While playing, children learn and develop important skills they will continue to use throughout their lifetime.

Problem solving, creativity, and willingness to take risks are just a few of the skills developed through play.

Is your child under 2 years old? Enter your baby’s birthday to get weekly activities to help meet developmental milestones. 

Children who use their imagination and ‘play pretend’ in safe environments are able to learn about their emotions, what interests them, and how to adapt to situations. When children play with each other, they are given the opportunity to learn how to interact with others and behave in various social situations. Learn more about your child’s social-emotional development.

Be sure to give your child plenty of time and space to play. There are 6 stages of play during early childhood, all of which are important for your child’s development. All of the stages of play involve exploring, being creative, and having fun. This list explains how children’s play changes by age as they grow and develop social skills.

At this stage baby is just making a lot of movements with their arms, legs, hands, feet, etc. They are learning about and discovering how their body moves.

This is the stage when a child plays alone. They are not interested in playing with others quite yet.

During this stage a child begins to watch other children playing but does not play with them.

When a child plays alongside or near others but does not play with them this stage is referred to as parallel play.

When a child starts to interact with others during play, but there is not a large amount of interaction at this stage. A child might be doing an activity related to the kids around him, but might not actually be interacting with another child. For example, kids might all be playing on the same piece of playground equipment but all doing different things like climbing, swinging, etc.

When a child plays together with others and has interest in both the activity and other children involved in playing they are participating in cooperative play.

As your child starts playing with family members and friends, make sure to teach them about sharing and winning and losing.

Play starts when we are babies, but it does not stop there! Including play in your child’s daily routine and giving them time to play is important for their development at every age. These stages are general guidelines for what to expect of your child’s play skills, but remember every child is different and if you have concerns bring them up with your healthcare provider.

Your child makes a lot of changes as they grow. Learn more about how play can change as your little one does.

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What is more important: to play or to study?

Parents who do not take their child to all kinds of developmental activities and clubs and just let him play often get disapproving looks. Like, business time, fun hour. Who is right? And what is more important for a little person: study or play? What role does play play in human development, how does the mechanism of mastering new skills, understanding oneself and the world around work? And which games work for the benefit of development, and which ones do the opposite?

Why children play

People did not think yesterday about the meaning of the game. In 1898, the philosopher Karl Groos, in his book The Play of Animals, studied the question of why the children of all mammals play from an evolutionary point of view. He concluded that the game originated as a way to learn the skills needed to survive and reproduce. Only mammals have a period of childhood and play - the highest stage of development of the animal world. At the same time, it is longer for predators, because hunting is much more difficult than gathering. Only the most developed societies can afford to have a long childhood, in primitive communities the period of play is not so long - children are immediately included in the process of mastering everyday and labor skills. Humans play much more than other species: they have to learn a lot of things related to the culture in which they will grow up and live. The more survival depends on skill rather than instinct, the longer the period of the game. nine0003

One of the main tasks of the game is to test the measure of risk, to master the ability to control fears, to learn how to cope with dangerous situations physically and emotionally. In their article, Norwegian psychologists Leif Kennar and Ellen Sandsetter argue that modern playgrounds must be dangerous. Remember how the generation of the 70s grew up. We played robber Cossacks, climbed trees, fired slingshots, jumped rubber bands, skated down ice slides, bungee and car tires. We came home with scratches and bruises, and no one restricted us. Our parents understood that it was impossible and does not make sense to raise a child under a cap. He himself needs to learn how to measure his abilities with desires, to get burned, fall and rise. This is how a full-fledged independent personality is formed, not dependent on parental prohibitions and control. nine0003

In order to protect children from dangers, they must be taught to cope with them

At some point, adults began to dispose of children's leisure at their own discretion: society looks askance at parents whose children are "not busy" - countless circles, sections, additional classes and preparation for the olympiads. These same adults have piled up unimaginably boring playgrounds in the yards that meet all safety standards, to which children practically do not fit. By artificially creating a "safe" environment for the game, we are raising victimized and weak people who are waiting for someone's instructions to take the next step. “You can cover a child with cotton wool, endlessly sterilize his toys, but in the end he will grow up and face bacteria, hard ground and sharp corners,” says Leif Kennar. This, of course, is not about deliberately offering children dangerous games or, moreover, pushing them beyond their limits, as physical education teachers often do, forcing schoolchildren to climb a rope under the ceiling or hang on a Swedish wall head down without arms. . Exactly the opposite: children themselves will gradually complicate their tasks and increase the level of danger if they are allowed to study step by step their body, its sensations in space, ways of interacting with the environment. Such ideas are implemented by the physical education teacher and the author of his own method of physical development Sergey Reutsky, offering such game complexes and materials with the help of which they learn to extricate themselves from rope labyrinths or cocoons, free themselves from under mats, walk along thin ropes, climb high structural elements and etc. nine0003

“Children are interested in climbing, and not just climbing, but always finding new ways and overcoming new difficulties. And I have a strange suspicion and belief that children are designed in such a way that they constantly train themselves in overcoming if they are not interfered with! So, in the space of the complex, choosing a task according to their strength, children accidentally train such physical qualities as strength, agility, endurance.

Sergei Reutsky, physical education teacher and author of his own method of physical development

Not only physical, but also intellectual development

From the point of view of modern neuropsychology, the posterior sections of the cerebral cortex and subcortical structures are responsible for mastering operations, cramming, practicing techniques. This is the lot of performers. On the contrary, orientation in situations and meanings, directing, programming and control is the highest function, which is regulated by the latest maturing parts of the brain: the frontal parts of the cerebral cortex. This is the path of leaders, innovators, inventors, businessmen. nine0003

“The shortcomings of the rote learning system are well known: lack of social and practical skills, lack of self-discipline and imagination, loss of curiosity and desire for education… We will realize that Chinese schools are changing for the better when grades start to drop. ”

Jiang Xueqin, a well-known Chinese teacher and methodologist in an article for The Wall Street Journal

Finally, it is a full-fledged long happy childhood, where the child was allowed to be a child, where he was given that measure of excitement, drive, research ardor, creative search that raises the child over his current capabilities, becomes a source of strength, a powerful psychological resource in the future. When it's hard for us, we turn to childhood, find support, support and consolation in it. The task of an adult is to make sure that this source is filled. In fact, do not interfere with the mechanisms laid down by nature. Do not knock down children's settings. It’s not just important to allocate time for the game. Play is the most important leading activity of a child. I hope I convinced you of this. nine0003

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Learning and playing: why is it important to introduce games into the learning process?

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The school year is in full swing, the children are maximally loaded with circles and extracurricular activities, there is no time for games and "pampering" and is not expected. However, the truth is that a busy schedule, “to the eyeballs” packed with studies and all sorts of “developments”, in fact, only interferes with harmonious development. nine0049

Thinking, speech, many personal qualities are laid in childhood, and play is of critical importance in their formation, because before the onset of active puberty, it is play activity, oddly enough, that is the main one for children due to the peculiarities of children's neurophysiology.

Simply put, the children's brain is arranged in such a way that the game for him is the main way of assimilation of information about the world around him. Therefore, elements of the game should be present in the learning process to increase its effectiveness, and in communication with others, and in the free time that children spend alone with themselves. nine0003

Features of attention.

The younger the child, the shorter the period of time during which he is able to hold attention. For younger students, especially prone to hyperactivity, this gap is about 15 minutes. It is difficult for children to concentrate for longer, therefore, as part of the educational process, it is necessary to periodically change the type of activity, switch attention. The element of the game helps to keep the interest longer and reduces the child's fatigue. nine0003

Positive motivation.

The game is one of the earliest ways of teaching children, the most effective due to powerful natural motivation. Through physical and emotional release, play helps relieve anxiety and tension, eliminating the fear of making a mistake and freeing up cognitive and creative resources. As a result, the learning process in children begins to be associated with positive emotions, which strengthens the motivation for learning.

These are not toys for you: neuroscientists have officially recommended that children play. nine0056