The Harbour Library Journal

                     Children can attain an optimum level of cognitive skills with consciously developed strategies that can facilitate their learning. There are so many strategies that an early childhood teacher can use to support a child in achieving this milestone.                          The first of this is to encourage young children to work with picture puzzles and figure them out independently. Exposure to picture puzzles can get children to think more and ultimately develop their reasoning and sharpen their cognitive skills.                           Children’s cognition of numbers can be taught by making them appreciate quantiti...

Play provides benefits for cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and moral development (American Academy of Paediatrics, 2006; Elkind, 2007) for children from all socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds (Zigler, E. & Bishop-Josef, S., 2006). Play helps to improve the physical developmental domain of the child. Physical outdoor activities like climbing boards, swings, slide, push and pull toys, jungle gyms, see-saw, tricycles and bicycles will help develop large muscular coordination. While indoor activities like painting, building blocks, peg boards, coloring and spooning are useful in the development of small muscle co ordination. Intellectual activities like looking through picture books, reading story books, comics and playing puzzle games can help develop children’s cognitive domain. When children play they have many opportunities to apply mental images of the world to new objects, people and situations around them. Teachers and parents need to be awa...

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