Balancing Beam Project

The name of our project is ‘Balancing Beam’. My teammate and I decided to build balancing beam is because when we discuss with the children, they wanted to build something which is fun and challenging project. After we collected the information from the children, we started to discuss with our principle and the principle gave us some advice. Then, we decided to build a balancing beam. When we were having a small meeting with the children to discuss about the balancing beam, the children feel excited and can’t wait to help us on building the balancing beam. They keep asking us when we can build the balancing beam and some said they can’t wait to play. The duration that we took in this project was one month. The sustainability of the materials
According to Early Years Matters (2016), it states that children gain enormous benefits from outdoor space on a daily basis. Being outdoor play, it support confidence and allows opportunities for big scale play, problem solving and creativity in the company of other children. According to Early Years Matters (2016), it also mentioned that the children practice new ideas and skills, they take risks, show imagination and solve problems on their own or with others. When I was observing the children playing on the balancing beam, there were some of the children could not walk on the balancing beam, so they tried to solve the problem by watching how the other children walked on the balancing beam and some of the children who could not walked on the balancing beam had asked their friends’ or teachers’ help by holding their hand to walk on the balancing beam. There are also some of the children keep on trying by themselves although they keep on falling down from the balancing beam but they won’t easily give
When the children play, it can extend certain areas of their learning. According to Department for Education (2010), it states that children’s enjoyment of their experiences of early years settings necessarily match their individual needs and interest. Through our project, we had made a strong links to children’s physical, intellectual, language, emotional and social development. For example, the children develop language skills by promoting talk between children, the children develop physical skills by balancing themselves and the children develop intellectual skills by taking turn. Nowadays, children spend most of their time staying indoors, paying games on their tablets or watching television. Kenneth (2007) states that a lot of unstructured outdoor play is critical to the health of children, though many have experienced a marked deadline in the time they spend in free play. Besides these, Magher (2015) states that physical activity in the form of outdoor play can help kids reduce their stress. The Children & Nature Network says contact with the nature can help reduce stress levels and positively impact conditions such as anxiety or attention deficit hyperactivity