Why is play-based learning so important? It has been linked to 21st century learning skills, fostering:
🌟 Collaboration: working in collaboration with other children can build confidence and build an understanding of others’ diverse perspectives.
🌟 Communication: skills essential for learning, helping children express their thoughts, feelings and ideas
🌟 Critical thinking: helping children make good decisions, understand the consequence of their actions and solve problems
🌟 Creative innovation: using their natural inquisitiveness and imagination, exploring new ideas
🌟 Confidence: play empowers children to make their own choices, cultivate skills through trial and error, and discover what fulfills them
🌟 Social-emotional development: through play, children are able to freely express their emotions, helping them to understand and manage their feelings
🌟 Language development: through play, children learn to use language to express their thoughts and ideas, and they also learn to listen and respond to others
Kind of makes it obvious why Gymboree Play & Music‘s programs have been based on play-based learning for over four decades!
Find a Gymboree Play & Music location near you today, to enter your child’s world of play and support their physical, cognitive and social-emotional development.