Shore Country Day School – Bill Fisher
“On February 3, Shore students in Pre-K through Grade 1 will join tens of thousands of other children around the world to participate in Global School Play Day 2016, an entire day of unstructured, child-generated discovery and exploration. The special occasion is based on the work of Dr. Peter Gray, who argues in his book Free to Learn and in a well known TEDx talk that today’s children do not grow up playing enough, and that this has negatively impacted them in many ways…He believes that in order to nurture in children the skills to thrive in today’s world, we must entrust them to steer their own learning and development. Drawing on evidence from anthropology, psychology, and history, Gray demonstrates that free play is a primary means by which children learn to control their lives, solve problems, get along with peers, and become emotionally resilient.”(more)