Using Pretend Play In The Preoperational Stage

In the Preoperational stage the class room should be ideally colorful, cheerful and full of fun and exciting things to do. By using pretend play in the class room it increases language uses and allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings. A school atmosphere that pretend play is encouraged in the curriculum children have been shown to lead to greater amounts of imaginativeness and enhanced curiosity. Children at this age I think will learn better if you use fun and games. IN this last stage the person is capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning. Piaget states that “hypothetico-deductive reasoning becomes important during this stage. In abstract thinking you have the ability to process ideas that involve complex visual