Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 1 D1

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It is important for children to have opportunities to play as It helps then to develop and get to understand more about themselves and peers and each other’s likes and dislikes and can communicate with each-other and develop their social skills. Children will also be able to learn how to communicate with their main carers and understand more about the physical world and different textures. It's important to create a space for the child to play as all children feel curiosity and have a need to explore different things.
Children's development is supported by different types of play and “From age’s three to five, children learn through play by pretending with materials and practicing language.” As children are practicing their language

and developing their language with the other children and can do this by reading different books, this may also help them develop their social skills by putting the book away after using it or giving it to another child will teach them to take turns and share. Play also helps children with their physical development because is they are playing with a ball and picking it up and throwing it or kicking it, it is helping them with their hand-eye coordination.
Within a nursery setting children have the opportunity to play alongside other children and adults. Practitioners in a setting will set out activities in the room for the children to have access to and play with throughout the day. The activities that are set out would be prom the core plan the room leader has planned, all of the activities are based from the early year’s foundation stage (EYFS). The EYFS helps practitioners see how the hold is developing and so they know what to base some activities on if there is a child that isn't where they are supposed to be. All childcare settings should follow the EYFS as it states where a child should be in their development at their age.
Play gives children a whole lot of different opportunities and helps them understand different things “children can learn about the meaning of things in the world.” Children start to understand the meaning of different words such a as ‘stop’ or playing with water and cups and understanding the words ‘full’ and ‘pour’. Learning new words gives the child the opportunity to communicate with different people.
D2)
When children play it should be made sure the the environment is suitable for the activity that they are doing. The environment should have enough space to move around in and should have too many things out at once. Children may play the activity indoors or outdoors depending on what it is.
An activity children enjoy may be dancing and singing along to music. With this activity the environment should be clear of any toys on the floor so that no child can trip over, this is the same if it was an outdoor environment. Equipment that can be used can be used for this activity should be giving the children instruments and shakers to use and give them dressing up clothes so they can dance in them. Children dressing up and playing with other children can help their social development as they will be talking with each other and having to share the different dressing up clothes.
Indoor environments should be thoughtfully set up with different activities to keep children entertained as they may get bored of a certain activity as their likes and dislikes may change. Within an indoor environment there should be different resources to stimulate their imagination for example: stacking blocks. Sticking blocks can be used to stack on top of each other or can be used to make something such as a car park or a stage. There should be an area where there are toys for children to access whenever they want to, this can have train tracks, farm animals or even dinosaurs in them. There should also be an area for heuristic play so that the children get an understanding of the real world and familiarise themselves with common household objects.
Outdoor environments help children see different colours and feel different textures depending on where they are. Many physical activities are achieved when outside and because they are outside activities can be started by anything that is outside such as: a dirty/woody area where bugs may be as children can squat and crawl around looking for bugs. When children are outside their confidence will build as they are getting to know more areas than just their normal room. “In the outdoors, children's use of language is five times greater than indoors” this means that children will be able to develop all different skills such as language as they’ll be seeing new things that they’ll want to speak about.
C1)
It is important to promote children's intends nice for care routines as children enjoy being independent for doing tasks such as dressing themselves or washing their own hands even though they will need help to complete the task.

Children will learn these different care routines by watching the main care givers or siblings complete the tasks. When children are practicing tasks such as feeding themselves they are practicing using their motor skills.
One self-help task is feeding themselves. Adult’s help children learn to feed themselves by giving them small finger foods at first to then start slowing them to use a fork and spoon. Within my nursery setting we help feed the babies that don't feed themselves but encourage them to hold the spoof so they get an understanding of what they have to do and if a child can do it by themselves then we give them a fork and allow them to do it on their own. Adults should use encouraging words to try and get them to eat and praise them after they have finished. Also adults should make sure they have cleaned up properly after the child has finished and they can even get the children to join in with that so the children understand and learn that they need to wipe/wash their hands once

finished.
Children should be involved in the routine as they will have more of an interest in it “The key to a child’s understanding is his motivation to understand, which is heightened in a situation in which he’s an active participant.” Children will learn more by actually doing the task instead of someone doing it for them.
Another care routine activity that they can do would be cleaning up. Children always get different toys out throughout the day so adults should encourage them to pick up the toys that they aren't playing with and put them away. The adults can make this a fun activity to get the children activity engaged.
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Within a childcare settings, children's health is promoted in many ways and is important that every childcare setting promoted their health and wellbeing. In a childcare setting they provide healthy meals for the children's lunch and different healthy snacks for throughout the day.