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How do children learn?PLAY!!!!!!!!– Play is a universal process.– Play is an optimal experience to encourage all seven identifiedintelligences (Theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner -1983)• Vocabulary, grammar, and the ability to sustain conversational exchanges.• Music through chants, clapping games, and play with musical instruments.• Logical mathematical skills as they play with blocks, counting, comparing, andpredicting as they build their constructions.• Visual spatial skills through art activities, visual matching, and making visualsigns.• Bodily-kinesthetic learning through climbing, running, catching a ball, andplaying a variety of sports (fine and gross motor skills).• Personal intelligence in thematic play as children become aware of theirfeelings, thoughts, likes and dislikes.• Social skills as children play and try out social roles, learn to see the worldthrough other people's perspectives, and use language for negotiation andproblem solving. 22
PLAY AND LEARN USING LOCAL MATERIALS• INDOOR PLAY ANDLEARNING.– Initially Save the Childrenstarted with purchase of plastictoys from Chinese industry toequip 4 pilot centres supportedsince 2009 in Rubaya (Gicumbi).– Identification of local artists inKigali and Gahini who can makea variety of toys and learningmaterials in wood adapted tothe age of children and to theRwandan context (abaci,building blocks, diamondshapes…): around 30 modelsChildren using wooden toys and learningmaterials in class.3
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