Beyond Centre and Circle Time

Playing is a child's world and not just providing a fun, but also has enormous benefits for children. Through positive play activities, children can use a muscle in his body, stimulates penginderaannya, explore the world around him, and recognize the environment in which he lived including recognition of himself.
Physical abilities to the untrained, as well as cognitive abilities and ability to socialize. In simple language, play will hone their intelligence.
Center and the circle method is one method of learning in early childhood education, which puts forward the concept of play for children, so the optimal growth and development. In this method, tools and materials are grouped in several centers around according to need.
Sentra preparation is one of the centers that mengasaha cognitive and fine motor skills in children. Thus, I welcome the presence of these learning materials as a support for early childhood educators in developing a center for further preparation. Playing not just to give pleasure, but also a big benefit for children. Through positive play activities, children can use a muscle in his body, stimulates penginderaannya, explore the world around him, and recognize the environment in which he lived including recognition of himself. Physical abilities to the untrained, as well as cognitive abilities and ability to socialize. In simple language, play him hone his intelligence.
Every child is basically intelligent. However, intelligence is not simply referring to intelligence alone, or better known as IQ. There are also multiple intelligences (multiple intelligences) as linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual spatial, musical, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, natural and moral. Every child has a ninth intelligence albeit with a different level.
Playing is one of the most effective way to develop the potential and the multiple intelligences of children through play activities because it will be easier to absorb information and experience.
With a play, based on existing research studies, the child turned out to be more intelligent, emotion and intelligence of children increased. Children also become more sensitive to the needs and values ​​of others. Playing with friends also provide opportunities for children to adjust their behavior with others. Amazingly, children are also able to appreciate the differences between them.
Play is child's developmental window. Through play activities aspects of child development can be grown in an optimal and maximum. Letting children play pre-school age has been shown to enhance mental development and intelligence of children, even if the child is malnourished.
Lancet Medical Journal recently stated that there are several studies that found a link between intelligence and child's play activities. Program play activities for children from malnutrition in Bangladesh proved to increase their IQ to 9 points (Sally McGregor, 2006) from the Institute of Child Health at University College London. Malnutrition or nutritional deficiency is a problem, but malnutrition without stimulation for mental development is a much bigger problem. Also reported in the journal is that more than 200 million poor children in the world of malnutrition. Approximately 89 million of them were in South Asia and 145 million others are in the countries India, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, and Indonesia.
By the researchers concluded that to improve poor children's intelligence can be done with a simple intervention, which encourages children to play a lot at home and of course improve their nutrition levels. During this time the public was too focused to reduce mortality, but they often forget that many children are in danger can not achieve optimal intelligence, after sitting in class 5 or 6 elementary school, their chances are slim to fix it.
Added by Mc. Gregor, 2006, in an area in Jamaica, children from poor families are given assistance toys that can be played alone at home, and their progress monitored until the age of 18 years. Their IQ level is better, both reading ability and rarely drop out of school, besides the mental health of children is also good, they are not depressed and more confident.
It is time when we all, especially the parents realize that play activities are not activities useless and a waste of time. Playing in addition to the rights of children, also needed to improve their skills (Kompas, January 5, 2007).
During this development of children's intelligence seen only in intelligence, but along with the development of science researchers intelligence raises a new theory of multiple intelligence. The theory was the basis for the diversity of learning methods both formal and non formal. Variety of learning methods can be seen from the rise of the school that gave rise to various schools of excellence. Basically the method of learning both formal and non formal education refers to how the child can develop in accordance with the interests and talents. The task of educators and parents were in patronizing the knowledge that already exists in the child so naturally unexplored.
Education for young children should be able to balance the aspects of cognitive, affective and psychomotor as well as providing education in terms of moral and social sensitivity to the problems of children. The games are presented for young children to be more creative again. Along with the development of culture, a game that develops in children has shifted. No one if the child had left the area because of the traditional game culture-based game technology continues to evolve. For that still have to introduce the traditional game, except the child has also to pass on the game varied cultural treasures of immense charm.
To facilitate children to have the opportunity to play a pretty, early childhood education, one of which is developed by using the method and the center circle of the method adopted BCCT (Beyond Center and Circle Time). In this method, the split in the form of learning centers. One of the existing centers are centers of preparation. Sentra is a "workshop" for children in order to optimize the ability of literacy in children from an early age.

By:
Ayu Widya Puspita, SKM., M. Kes