Go Gallop

Grow a Learning Love of Play

As I lie in bed my mind begins to wander. I have spent a year focusing on what I thought were my needs while neglecting my true needs.  What I have gathered is a year that although has seen happiness is littered with many illnesses, lost potential and sadness.  It was this that triggered GALLOP….

Galloping is a large motor skill that children develop.  It’s a combination of a skip, slide and a hop. This skill is a bridge between: physical developments and the four domains of learning (physical, cognitive, social and emotional) that edge a child to more complex movements (such as skipping) and learning in other domains.  But to get there so many other things must happen first. It’s neither a beginning or ending, it has no age limit and all we do from birth brings us towards it. It’s laditudinal and it crosses the midline, it speaks of language development and expresses sensory needs. What is remarkable is that my ramblings may be seem nonsense to you, or they could make perfect sense. That is O.K. It’s why we are here - ALL this that I want us to experience together; to learn more about as we work to develop a love for play that enhances children’s growth and learning.  Come let us GALLOP. 

Let’s talk a little more about galloping?  Have you tried it?  No- I mean recently, not when you were 5, but perhaps in the last year, last month, last week…today?  OK! Now I know you just got up and galloped.  Am I right?  Of course I am.  I’m also sure you are smiling about it, maybe even laughing.  How could you not?  Have you ever seen someone who was galloping and grumpy? That’s right because galloping is silly, it’s fun, it’s the essence of happiness all the hallmarks of what makes play the foundation of learning- evoking positive emotions that foster the best in a child’s development.  

There are many topics I play to address as the children I work with bring them to light in their own development.  

These will include, but are not limited to...

Emotional Development and why emotional states are important to learning. 

Crossing the Midline

Domains of Learning

Schemas of Learning

What else would you like showcased?

"Go..Go Gallop!"