Hi everyone this week was really busy, but we got through it and a new week is on its way. Here is my opinion about Study Unit 3.

1. Discuss the basic elements of play.

Play teaches the learners anticipation, which will make them more anxious to learn different ways to play and to learn with different things, for example, playing with different and new toys and to learn how they work and what they can teach them. Learners learn to become more surprised with they find new ways to learn and to play with different and new toys and to learn new ways to play. Learners learn to feel pleasure when they play, they learn to relax when they are playing and that will give the learners more pleasure while playing and learning.

Learners find new ways to understand the different ways of playing and how different toys work and they learn how to play with other learners and how different games work, this will teach the learners how to become more patient. Strength in playing teaches the learners to know what are their different strengths which will help the learners to focus on those strengths and to improve on them. Poise in play teaches the learners self-assurance, to stay calm while playing, and to play with grace and dignity.

2. Give your opinion about the value of play for the holistic development and learning in the foundation phase.

I believe that holistic development for play is extremely important for learners, holistic development develops the learner's intellectual, metal, physical, emotional, and social abilities in a learner so that they are capable to face the demands and challenges, the everyday life gives them. Holistic development is a valuable thing for the learners to develop to help them to be successful in professional fields of work. 

The value of play for the learning in the foundation phase allows learners to use their creativity while developing their imagination, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. I feel that play is the most important things for young learners, because it help the learners to develop a healthy brain, play also teaches the learners to learn at a very early stage to interact with different things and people around them. 

3. Motivate the importance of including elements of play in as many teaching and learning activities as possible in the foundation phase.

It is very difficult to teach learners in the foundation phase new things, especially when the topic is not that interesting to the learners, they then tend to lose interest and they start to bother other class members and that just makes it even more difficult for the teachers to get the learners focus again and the teacher will probably have to start all over with the lesson.

But if you add the elements of play to the lesson, then the lesson will not be to boring for the learners and the teacher will be able to keep the learners attention for longer periods of time. When the teacher adds a game to the lesson instead of just having the learners to listen to her while the teacher explains the work, will automatically make the learners more interested in the work and they will understand the work better and faster which will also help the teacher and then the learners can move on from the one topic to the other faster.

4. Provide suggestions for how to include play in the foundation phase.

Teachers can come up with different games that is related to the lesson she want to teach the learners, for example they can dress up like the different types of seasons for the day, or when the teachers wants to teach them math, each learner can be assigned to a number and when she calls the number the learner can jump up and down, this can also be a good way to teach the learners to count and to concentrate and remember which number comes first and what number they are.

I hope I explained the work well enough, until next time ;)