PLAY CAN NEVER BE A GET AWAY FROM SERIOUS LEARNING; IT IS SERIOUS LEARNING FOR KIDS.

Building Lasting Memories

Classroom is quite a versatile place, not restricted to teaching and learning alone. A good classroom should hold fond memories, compassionate teachers, loving friends, long-lasting experiences, and much more. Memorable classroom experiences are valuable for several reasons. Such rich classroom experience helps kids to build both IQ as well as EQ. If something from your school days sticks with you for years to come, it’s likely reflective of an engaging, unique learning experience.

As teachers, our goal is to make children enjoy the process of learning. We want students to gain knowledge and have fun, to participate, get involved and at the same time feel comfortable in the process.

Kids can never learn through books alone. Wholesome learning includes learning through play, peers, observation, exploration and environment. Role-play is an important tool that gives children a chance to show what they have learnt. When children pretend, they try on new feelings, roles and ideas, they stretch their minds along with their imaginations.

Role- play helps children to develop empathy, use their cognitive abilities and skills. Thus, through role-play children use their imagination that helps in developing creativity, making them more expressive, building better relationships. It is a golden opportunity for kids to think out of the box too.

Learning Beyond Books

Times are gone that laid stress on just academic results and knowledge was limited only to books. The present world is all about creating a space where children are free to express themselves and live in a magical realm of possibilities. Beautifully expressed in the following quote by Albert Einstein-

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

Roleplay adds essence to learning for kids. It paves the way to making a class more interesting and meaningful. It prepares kids to develop many important life skills, by allowing them to rehearse real-life situations in a safe, low threat environment. Role-play is one of the most natural activities a preschooler can participate in and is an important way for them to learn about the world.

Developing Life Skills- The Fun Way

Children are very good observers and they are excellent in picking up words and situations from their teachers, parents, elders, friends or peers. It helps in making them aware of their surroundings and gives them a chance to explore, experiment and even investigate the possibilities; which otherwise is hard to reach for them in real life. Roleplay is one of the platforms which helps them put forth their feelings, emotions, likes, dislikes in a very secure and comfortable atmosphere.

Role-play develops communication skills in children and makes their vocabulary stronger. Children learn coordination through role-play that will prepare them to deal with a variety of people they will come across in their real-life later. Role-play not only broadens their horizons but also helps in reducing anxiety as language and situations are no longer strange to them. It gives an insight into a new culture, lets them face strange situations with a different perspective.

Role-play sparks creativity by making kids recreate situations that they have experienced or imagined in order to understand them better. It is often sensed that if kids have had a chance to role-play a situation before it has happened, they are better prepared to face it in real life.

Indurated Bond Along With New Discoveries

Role- play with parents & other family members will generate positive vibes and positive behaviour in your child. Role- play will give an opportunity to you to demonstrate life values- care, kindness, sharing, respect, trust, etc. These values can be easily demonstrated through characters played by you and your child/ children. It is also a bonding experience for both of you, which will help build a lot of attachment too. This in turn increases a sense of belonging, safety and self-esteem in a child.

Roleplay opens a whole new world for kids, of any age. The joy of roleplay is that kids can become anyone they like at any time. It is a world of imagination and evolution. It could involve memories of one’s past and dreams of the future. It brings a sense of accomplishment with itself by helping these little ones come out of their fears and shyness. It can help kids to go from a public speaking phobia to embracing the stage. For a child overcoming stage fright is a small but crucial step forward in making him confident, expressive and ready to face the world and situations.

Apart from all the wonderful cognitive benefits offered by role-play, it makes a child active and plays a vital role in developing gross motor skills too.