Learning through play of K to 3
KINDERGARTEN to Grade 3 in the Primary school one of the most enjoyable stage of learning yet very challenging in the part of the teachers. This is the period where the pupils are still training their young intellectual capability into grasping alphabetic, numeric and comprehension capacity as well as developing their phsycho-motor skills at some point.
In their young minds however, while they are display unmeasurable enthusiasm or excitement to learn or discover new things or knowledge, they tend to have a short spans of attention. Their learning attitude is to be easily distracted by many things in their surroundings even during their classes.
Most of the time, these young learners can be able to internalize what they are being taught through repetition method. Such as in writing and understanding numeric maneuvers, they have to be exposed to a subject matter or challenge until they will be able to integrate it into their system. From them being in the Kindergarten until Grade Three level of the primary education, they have to undergo such process like babies who are reaching their toddlership that are repetitiously being trained to walk and talk.
But for these pupils as young as they are, it is sometimes an "old school" to them when they are just being taught with repetitional method as simple as it is. It will be boring for them and they will have the tendency to be mechanical during their early learning stage in the elementary education if they are taught to be such.
Introducing a fresh and lively learning environment will be much conducive to the pupils of K to 3 as it suits their ages, where they are so much clinged to playing. They will always welcome new ideas if their young minds be tingled with academic inputs delivered through more enjoyable teaching methods.
Teachers that encourage pupils play while in the classrooms of course will enable a healthy learning environment that will equip the children with required knowledge to perform well in the higher levels of education. And the bigger benefit is that they will develop more seriousness in their education as they enjoy going to school.