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What I noticed about this play space is that this playground really is not handicap friendly because of the terrain and limited equipment children can use. That is something I never noticed until this project. My view on my playground changed from the beginning because this project allowed me to re-evaluate the playground I grew up on and played on when I was 4-10 years old and I never realized how much postural control and grasp patterns I had to use to play. I noticed more that this playground requires a lot of cylindrical grasps because most everything is the red metal (as seen in my climbing picture) which is thick and requires that hand grasp. Overall, it was very fun to go back to my roots and evaluate a space I was very familiar with and have a lot of memories on.

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Another social aspect I would expect to see at the playground is associative play, specifically on the swings. There can be two children next to each other on the swings and they are laughing together. One child decides to jump off the swing while it is in the air when the other child decides not to but keeps swinging. Maybe sometimes they jump off together. In this play stage, children do talk to other kids but they still stick to their interests and motivations. Another example with the swings is that two children can be on the swings next to each other and the one child is talking, the other child may respond to them or not. Sometimes they're laughing and smiling together. This stage has kids beginning to be more cooperative but they are still within that stage where they are in their own little worlds still where they seek their own interests.

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One of my favorite games I played on this playground when I was in elementary school was hide and seek. This is an example of Parten's cooperative play stage. This is a social aspect I would expect to see children playing on this playground still. This stage allows the child to build friendships by having them be more interactive by communicating and coming together in groups to play this game. This game is more complex to children because this game has a set of rules as well as it gives children a chance in a leadership type role as well as giving each other turns in this role. Another game I enjoyed playing on this playground that was also a cooperative play stage was tag. This game also allowed children to build friendships because you had the communicate and you also had to take turns in a leadership role. I also remember combining hide and seek with tag which made the game even more complex.

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Yay! The wobbly bridge! This bridge requires the child to have their proprioception sense to be activated when either trying to cross the bridge to get to the yellow slide (the slide seen in my climbing picture) or get to the other side to get to the biggest slide in the play space. This sense becomes activated by our eyes seeing the bridge move as well as our bodies sensing movement in the bridge. These movements allow use to move our feet and legs in response and that will create balance so we do not fall. This sense will also help our bodies remain upright without us knowing because our top half needs to remain upright so we do not fall, or if we do fall we need to remain upright so that we can reach for the railing and get ourselves standing up to promote balance.

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Another motor skill you need in order to play on this playground is that you need to be able to pump your legs to be able to use the swing set. As in the video above, I am using a cylindrical grasp to hold onto the swing as I use the swings. This motor skill is needed in the play space because if a child wants to be on the swings with their friends, they need to be able to pump their legs to get high in the air. Being able to move your legs to give you momentum is a large gross motor movement because it requires your leg and glute muscles to be used, and those are large muscle groups. Postural control is important when swinging because you need to maintain upright when starting/stopping the swing or else the child would fall towards gravity. The child also must maintain upright while the swing is in motion or else the child could fall backwards and have a damaging fall into the ground if they fall off the swing. The swings are a perfect example of a dissociation movement because the swings require the child to move their bottom half when keeping their top half pretty still. Even when the swing is not in motion, you need to move your legs and keep your top half still when backing up to lift your legs off the ground as well as touch your feet to the ground and stopping the swing.

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A specific motor skill a child needs is to use a cylindrical grasp and be able to climb in this playspace. This skill is needed because even though there are stairs to get onto the actual playground, this entrance may be more attractive to a child's eye due to the fact this entrance is very close to the biggest slide in that play space. Therefore, they can get to the slide quicker compared to a child who chooses to go around to the other side of the playground and go up the stairs. This skill requires postural control because in order to climb up this piece of equipment, you need to move your foot and your hand at the same time. This requires you to move against gravity so you don't fall off the equipment, as well as you have to go slow and steady to maintain balance. Postural control relies proper coordination to prevent the fall. In order to use this skill, you will also be using dissociation movement because as the child is climbing, their hips will move from side to side as they take steps while their top half of their body remains still. As this is happening, they need to maintain balance and not fall towards where their hips are pulling them.

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A playspace incorporates three systems from Brofenbrenner’s theory. The first system would be the microsystem because their parents most likely took them to a outside park before they started school where they used the baby swing and taught the child that the swing is a fun activity. The next system would be the mesosystem when the child starts school. They make friends and they play with others in the place space. Other children will teach them how to play on the other equipment (monkey bars or how to pump your legs while you swing). The child will also learn taking turns using equipment. The last system with the playspace is the exosystem. This would be the school board that develops the play space for the children and well as enact rules on how to ensure safety on the playground for teaching staff to follow. That way children will not get seriously hurt while playing in the playspace

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development (#2)

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development (#2)

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With my play space, I mentioned how this is at my old elementary school, where age in children who play in this space range from 4 years old to 10 years old. These age groups incorporate two stages from Piaget’s theory. Children ages 4 to 7 years old are incorporated in the preoperational stage. During this stage, children have a difficult time seeing things from other children’s perspectives. I know I had a struggle with sharing with other kids when I was young, mainly because I am an only child and sharing was a new concept for me. The children ages 8 to 10 years old are part of the concrete operational stage. This is the stage where children’s thinking becomes more organized and they start to use reasoning in their ideas. An example of this is when I used the slide as a kid, I learned and knew that going down the slide feet first was much safer than going head first. I could think that on my own and didn’t need to be told by an adult that I needed to go down feet first. This could also be an example of assimilation where I learned from an experience of going down the slide head first. I could’ve gotten hurt or I watched another kid get hurt where I knew better next time to use the slide safely. Lastly an example of accommodation would be learning how to use the monkey bars. They are difficult at first but as I learned the timing of when to grip the next bar as well as my grip strength improved I learned how to get across the entire strip of monkey bars to get to the other side.

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What I love about my place space is that this is a playground I grew up on, this is at my elementary school that is right down the road from my parents house. I would say the appropriate age range of kids that are able to play on this are ages 4-10. I love that a local community group donated a swing for kids who have a wheelchair can still be able to be included with the play space. I also love that kids have a variety of choices of what to play on or with. Whether it is going on swings, monkey bars, going down slides, or shooting hoops the school has it there at access. I think some societal expectations is to keep the play area clean from trash, which usually it is pretty well kept up on. I also think that some expectations is to be able to share pieces of equipment, this play space is big enough and has a lot of variety where kids won’t be fighting over who gets to play on what first.