Categories of Play:
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Cognitive Play:
Builds thinking and reasoning

Social Play:
Various ways children interact with peers, these include independent play, partner play (play beside each
other but not with each other),  buddy play and group play

rhythmic, tactile and temporal

Emotional Development:
Affective reactions during play for behaviors such as aggression and verbal signs like crying and laughing.
Spatial Awareness *is the ability to orient to other people and objects in space as well as how much space the body occupies.

Directional Awareness *Consists of laterial awareness of right and left and directionality awareness of forward and back and up
and down.

Temporal Awareness *Understanding the relationships between movement and time

Rhythmic Awareness *Is the ability to make movements that are repetitive and patterned resulting in balanced harmonious
movement.

Tactile Awareness *Is the ability to discriminate through touch and feel