tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254764571956782670.post6333830723858202123..comments2023-10-23T19:06:14.507+01:00Comments on Learning for Life: The importance of a playground. #ip-dip-doppUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254764571956782670.post-816814344342687762016-03-09T12:53:44.679+00:002016-03-09T12:53:44.679+00:00This is really amazing! We never deny with the imp...This is really amazing! We never deny with the importance of a playground every people since from childhood are used to play in grounds. So it's better to prepare good playgrounds and also take care and do regular maintenance through professional help. Most probably playgrounds like tennis and basketball and badminton are requiring good and special attention; so we used to follow different types of service provider to take care of the grounds.<br /><a href="http://tennisballcourts.com/" rel="nofollow">recycled tennis balls</a>Glenn Walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254764571956782670.post-55268859817396439912015-12-03T17:30:31.374+00:002015-12-03T17:30:31.374+00:00Great points Suzanne & yes I guess it's al...Great points Suzanne & yes I guess it's all about what you are used to. Thanks for allowing us to join you on the trip that morning & for going out of your way to show us around the parks in our area. 4 of the group had a lovely morning in the park behind the hotel on the Friday morning, chatting with the workers there & gaining another insight in play in Stockholm.Kierna Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14596808181242404873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254764571956782670.post-87841707581796851762015-11-28T18:06:41.795+00:002015-11-28T18:06:41.795+00:00This is very interesting. How wonderful to travel ...This is very interesting. How wonderful to travel as you do, you certainly do have a knack for exploring, and sharing, Kierno. I love how in Europe and the British isles (so to speak), there is an ease of communication and the opportunity to meet and learn together. <br />I really like the park with the loose parts, wonderful!Mullin Avenue Workshophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09489785153205822301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254764571956782670.post-37419126428480855362015-11-28T15:23:51.703+00:002015-11-28T15:23:51.703+00:00It really was wonderful to meet up with you in Sto...It really was wonderful to meet up with you in Stockholm.<br /><br />I lament not having a playspace of our own... but at the same time we meet the need of children's repetive play by going to the same spaces regularly to play... each Friday it is the exact same space we play in... while Monday through Wednesday the children choose their playspace from a local selection... and they go through phases of choosing the same space for a while. Thursdays are always our further afield excursion day... where we introduce new play spaces and also visit museums etc...<br /><br />The first time to a play space is always free for the children to explore... having a pedagogical agenda means the children are not able to focus on it, as their need to explore their surrounding is greater than their need to "play" in a way the group are more familiar with... so we try to visit each playspace several times so that the play is able to deepen and expand.<br /><br />A bonus of not having a play space of our own is that we are very much a part of the community and not hidden away in a child-friendly zone... the youngest children are out and about and are very competent where in just about every preschool I have ever worked in before have said the one and two year olds are not old enough to do or benefit from excursions... I now know this is completely wrong and is more about the adults than the children.<br /><br />But yes, I miss having an outdoor space of our own that we can develop in much the same way that you would develop the indoor learning space.<br /><br />The children DO make these spaces their own... they use on the whole 4 play-spaces on a very regular basis... one os the square outside the preschool, and is technically not a play space... but the children HAVE made it their space to play... and one is a small garden close to the preschool where the children explore the labyrinth like paths in it and see how nature changes over the seasons... the other two are play parks that are close by... sometimes they will choose the small forest close by to us as well... depending on their play and what they want to do together... The children have a great freedom to choose.<br /><br />So sometimes it is hard to know which is best... the play-space of our own where there s the risk we end up there most of the time (and this does not undervalue that play... becuase I too have seen how deep play can be in a safe and familiar play)... and then without a play space of our own the children have a great freedom to choose... and spaces DO become familiar to them and the play is deep and rich... but in the end I think it is the adults that are affected most by the lack of our own play space...Suzanne Axelsson - Interaction Imaginationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513322963337168674noreply@blogger.com